Just a bit more on the women’s tennis situation.
My previous post linked to an article noting, “It’s such an old discussion. Really. We said in 1973, and we continue to say in 2014, we’re ready, willing and able to play five sets if that’s what they’d like us to play.”
Here’s more. Who knew that someone at RAND was looking at the question? And on FiveThirtyEight!
Serena Williams Is Getting A Raw Deal By Only Playing Best Of Three Sets
There’s also a full discussion on Quora. Best part: “I mean, Caroline Wozniacki trained for and ran the 2014 NY Marathon, for charity, in the middle of a year on the WTA circuit (where she was ranked 8th at race time). Let me know next time Rafael Nadal goes out of his way to put 26 more miles on his knees.”
Tennis: Why don’t grand slams introduce best of five sets matches for women too?
Plenty of alternate explanations are also available in this article from the Economist, after we read past the insufficient (via arguments above) case against.