Our thanks to Tom for this (video, 14:15). Check out the difference in their court sizes, from 4:10. The man won 6:3, 6:3.
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Wonderful!! Gee, what a surprise. But it’s no surprise this didn’t get publicity. Unlike, the stupid, sickening, and unbelievably biased farce of the Bobby Riggs/Billie King match back in the 1970’s.
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The TV news report I saw was funny, in that almost all of it was about that publicity stunt 50 years ago, as though they couldn’t bring themselves to admit what had just happened.
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Apart from the court size, they tried to fix it in other ways, too e.g. only one serve. No need to stipulate five sets because it would never have got that far. Maybe the woman can play male seed #1,671 next time, after he’s just broken a leg.
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Highlights on sky sports only showed points the woman one. NB Nick Krygios was returning from injury having not played competitively for like 9 months!
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To me the best bit was the marking of the court. Making a visual statement of the “handicapping” the organisers had to do to make it “equal” (there were other “rule changes” with the same objective. The court image with the smaller playing area for the female (and no changing ends of course) symbolises what “equality of the sexes” actually means. Deliberate hobbling of males. That court would make a good image for anti feminism. It is also a good metaphor for why so many occupations have become mediocre in the UK, for in order to “raise women up” standards have to drop and mediocrity becomes a norm.
Of course the irony is that in sport the feminists now argue even men who’ve cut off their balls and taken feminising hormones still should be excluded because they’ll always win! Shows how far the Police, Fire and military services will have to fall to become equal!
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