Tennis a win-win for women

Wimbledon is always an annual sporting highlight but this year's titanic final between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick will take some beating.

Roddick produced a performance that will go down in history, yet he still lost.
Man, he must feel gutted. I tell my sons if you don't feel bad losing, then you haven't won enough.
Wimbledon had it all this year. The Williams sisters battled it out in the women's final, in some pretty weird outfits. I think it was Venus who wore a T-shirt at the press conference with something like ‘Stop staring at my Titles' emblazoned across her chest.
They have certainly made women's tennis interesting. Ironically, while I am the greatest advocate for women's sport and equality, I can't believe the prize money at Wimbledon is the same when females only have to play the best of three sets.
You'd have to agree that, rare as it is, women have the upper hand in tennis as opposed to most other sports. In other sports, women have to fight for more and better media coverage, fairer prize money or simply to be recognized as equals to their male counterparts.
I can't think of any other sport in the world where women get more for less than in tennis. In my era the discrepancy was huge and it was well documented as I fought hard for a bigger slice of the pie.
Don't get me wrong. I don't necessarily agree with equal prize money across the board but it's the inequality in the prize pool that raises concern.
People will always debate the differences between men and women in the sporting arena.
I used to admit I would never be able to compete against the top male squash player in the world. Still, I trained hard but was unable because of my gender to match men physically. I would argue you don't put a bantam weight into the ring with a heavyweight. That's probably why I got paid chicken feed.

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