Wimbledon women MUST stop whingeing
We’re one week into Wimbledon and already it’s become a feminist whinge-fest. You’d have thought that when women players gained the right to the same prize money as men some years ago, they would have been happy.
Particularly since there’s less work involved in the women’s game — they play three-set matches, as opposed to the men’s five.
But no, female tennis players still see themselves as victims of terrible discrimination. The whining started this year with demands that the women’s final, rather than the men’s, should end the tournament.
Tennis feministas claimed it was sexist for the men to be guaranteed the prestige of that last match.
So it’s all down to discrimination, rather than the fact that nearly three times more people watched the men’s final last year than the women’s.
The fact is, Wimbledon has already bent over backwards to accommodate women — and it’s the men who are being discriminated against.
This year, for the first time in decades, women have more matches than men on the ‘show courts’.
They’ve also been given ‘heat breaks’, where play is suspended for ten minutes when the temperature and humidity reach levels deemed too stressful. Needless to say, the men are left to bake in the sun.
Now, women want better rights for playing mothers, with games rescheduled so they can spend more time with their children. The six mothers of young children in this year’s women’s singles do not have a world ranking above 57 between them.
Perhaps that’s why they’re also demanding that their tournament seedings are protected while they are on maternity leave.
It’s true that players have spoken movingly of the guilt they feel leaving children to go and play, but there’s no such special pleading from roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka, who also have young families.
And if I have to endure one more mention of Serena Williams’s struggles with breastfeeding, I swear I’ll scream louder than Maria Sharapova.
It’s time to accept reality. For pace, power and popularity, their game isn’t a patch on the men’s. The only area the ladies triumph in is grunting and shrieking.
They should man up and stop their pleading. Because all they’re doing is playing the victim. And that’s the opposite of the equality they claim they’re fighting for.