1. Shorter Matches
Geez, no one wants to watch a whole 5 set match! The male players get tired and they take longer to serve. The men's game is exhausting! Why does it have to be 5 sets? It's not an event anymore. Every good match is like sitting down and watching 2 Harry Potter movies. I'm about a 4.0 - 4.5 player. I play one good match of 3 sets and I immediately need to take my vitamins, icy hot, anti inflamatory, and a muscle relaxer (rum n coke for me!). I feel sorry for the male players because it is not fair. Back when tennis was all serve and volley, I can see why the need for 5 sets. But then they slowed down the surfaces. Now EVERYONE is a baseliner. We can shorten the matches back to 3.
2. Strategies You Can Use NOW
With women's tennis you can implement the strategies right away for your game. With the men's game it goes "well first you develop a 100 mph serve and then...." The problem is that you need years of body development in order to hit the ball like a professional man. However women don't have awesome serves. They serve well and play it out. Thus for everything that you watch, you get to see more baseline strategies that don't involve a lot of spin.
3. No Big Serving
It is not fun to watch a match where people slap service winners all the time. Isner/Mahut three day match...great serving. Do you know anyone that actually felt like watching it though. NOPE.
4. All Different Types
With women's tennis there is a bit of reverse descrimination. Simply put, the female game is more diverse. Not only with race but with body types as well. Women of all different types and sizes can prove their tennis playing skills with the frames they are given. The new pro players in america are just a bunch of white guys that look like college baseball players. But on the womens side its some biracial, black, white, black, thick, tall, short, skinny...no limits for our women.
5. Better Points System
In women's tennis, the rankings system is different. More women have a chance to come up from out of no where. Thus, they don't need to rely as heavily on wildcards. Also the number one ranked players dont win all the time. If a player starts playing poorly, they pay for it. Simple as that.
6. Easier to Route For
Ladies tennis (other than Serena Williams) is mostly for diehard fans who just like tennis. The matches are easier to watch in person and if you go to a WTA tournament, the chances that you will sit next to someone that knows tennis is pretty decent. Also women seem to route for women more passionately which is good for discussion. unless you are in New York. They don't like to talk there.
7. USA Has a Better Chance of Winning
Simply put: as of 7/19/2014 the US has 6 men in the top 100. The highest ranked is John Isner at 12. Everyone else is outside the top 60! The women have 11 in the top 100. Only 2 are outside the top 60. One of those 2 is Victoria Duval who is 19 and has the skills to beat a top ten player. So if you want to wear your flags, you will look better cheering for the ladies.
8. Controlled Shrieking
As tennis moves along, academies, tournaments, and parents frown on the loud shrieking. So the up and coming players don't make as much noise out of respect for the audience. Also the ones that do have the court mics turned down so it doesn't mess up the speakers.
9. Equal Pay
The tournaments are giving equal pay to the ladies. If you are a feminist, you need to support ALL the players! If you are one of the people that complain that men work harder then rally for 3 set matches in slams for men. Otherwise you can take solace that most WTA coaches are men. So then you can watch women's tennis and cheer for the coach. "LETS GO PAUL ANNACONE'S STUDENT!!!"
Obviously I like women's tennis. The WTA is a better league than people give credit for. It's not just for girls who are supposed to look up to adult ladies....because they don't really. Its for everyone....right?
Comments and questions on the bottom :) Thanks
In women's tennis, the rankings system is different. More women have a chance to come up from out of no where. Thus, they don't need to rely as heavily on wildcards. Also the number one ranked players dont win all the time. If a player starts playing poorly, they pay for it. Simple as that.
6. Easier to Route For
Ladies tennis (other than Serena Williams) is mostly for diehard fans who just like tennis. The matches are easier to watch in person and if you go to a WTA tournament, the chances that you will sit next to someone that knows tennis is pretty decent. Also women seem to route for women more passionately which is good for discussion. unless you are in New York. They don't like to talk there.
7. USA Has a Better Chance of Winning
Simply put: as of 7/19/2014 the US has 6 men in the top 100. The highest ranked is John Isner at 12. Everyone else is outside the top 60! The women have 11 in the top 100. Only 2 are outside the top 60. One of those 2 is Victoria Duval who is 19 and has the skills to beat a top ten player. So if you want to wear your flags, you will look better cheering for the ladies.
8. Controlled Shrieking
As tennis moves along, academies, tournaments, and parents frown on the loud shrieking. So the up and coming players don't make as much noise out of respect for the audience. Also the ones that do have the court mics turned down so it doesn't mess up the speakers.
9. Equal Pay
The tournaments are giving equal pay to the ladies. If you are a feminist, you need to support ALL the players! If you are one of the people that complain that men work harder then rally for 3 set matches in slams for men. Otherwise you can take solace that most WTA coaches are men. So then you can watch women's tennis and cheer for the coach. "LETS GO PAUL ANNACONE'S STUDENT!!!"
Obviously I like women's tennis. The WTA is a better league than people give credit for. It's not just for girls who are supposed to look up to adult ladies....because they don't really. Its for everyone....right?
Comments and questions on the bottom :) Thanks
"The new pro players in america are just a bunch of white guys that look like college baseball players. But on the womens side its some biracial, black, white, black, thick, tall, short, skinny...no limits for our women."
ReplyDeleteHow many are in the top 20 again? Ever heard of Monfis and Tsonga? What Ferrer, hardly a giant. There is more to tennis than America.