Women tennis players pay

[SueEllen]

Womens' games tend to go on longer though as each point is normally a rally due to lack of brute force to hit unreturnable serves and so on. Well so it seems watching, some stats would be useful.

a 5 set match of that would be Zzzz

It's the same way Novak Djokovic matches seem to go on forever but Rafael Nadal's don't.

Andy Murray has said this:

“One of the things Novak said was that if women are selling more seats and tickets they should make more but at a tournament like this, for example, if Serena is playing on centre court and you have a men’s match with Stakhovsky playing, people are coming to watch Serena.

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[d000hg]

The thing about Serena's matches is they are normally over in about 55min

[SueEllen]

The thing about Serena's matches is they are normally over in about 55min

It's a bit like concerts where you have to have two acts before the main act. The main act is then on for an hour....

[BrilloPad]

It's a bit like concerts where you have to have two acts before the main act. The main act is then on for an hour....

Reminds me of when George Harrison went to see Led Zeppelin. He asked Peter Grant if he could meet the group. Peter said "they are about to go on - you can meet them in 2.5 hours". George said "what about the interval". Peter "no interval".

George "we are booked for 15 minutes. we play 10".

[unixman]

Womens' games tend to go on longer though as each point is normally a rally due to lack of brute force to hit unreturnable serves and so on. Well so it seems watching, some stats would be useful.

a 5 set match of that would be Zzzz

Until about 5 years ago, womens' tennis was better viewing in some ways by being a tad slower, enabling proper rallies. However it is now "bang bang" just like the mens.

As for womens 3 set matches going on longer than mens 5 sets, I don't think that was ever the case. It doesn't make sense.