and men are also given more tournaments to play in.
And in April, while the two biggest women’s tournaments offered just over US$250,000 in prize money, the men’s gave out almost US$1.4 million. It is also unclear why more time on the court should necessarily mean a better spectacle. Few of the highest-quality Grand Slam finals have gone to a deciding set and, if time was money, then Nicolas Mahut and John Isner would be the highest-paid tennis players of all time.The second response to these figures is that the free market has decided that men’s tennis is a more valuable product. But events at last month’s French Open show the holes in this theory.
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