Tennis pay-gap no surprise

Re Director claims WTA is riding men’s ‘coattails,’ March 21 Who should make more, Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber? No one calls for equal pay for the two as they sell their respective wares and succeed or not based on fan support.

Who should make more, Robert Downey Jr. or Jennifer Lawrence? There have been calls for equal pay in films, but each performer has agents working for them, and each extracted what they thought was maximum dollars from the film studios when they signed their respective contracts.

Who should make more at Grand Slam tennis tournaments, Novak Djokovic or Serena Williams? Make no mistake, if women tennis players were bringing in substantially more revenue than men’s players, the women’s No. 1 would be the first to ask for more money than the men get. There would be no speeches about egalitarianism or the long ago struggles of Billie Jean King.

Djokovic has now offered an apology for recent comments he made regarding equal pay at the Grand Slams and other combined tournaments. He did not, however, retract his assertion that men bring in more revenue at Grand Slam tournaments than women do. People may not like the truth, but numbers do not lie. Trevor Amon, Victoria, B.C.