Tennis : Equal Pay for Unequal work?

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Sikander
With the increase in the size and power of the rackets the men's game has largely been reduced to one or two exchanges per point.

This was certainly true a few years ago, but I don't think so now, except perhaps for games involving the Big Tall Serve Merchants like Mario Ancic. There was plenty of base line play between Hewitt & Baghdatis last night, for example.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


This was certainly true a few years ago, but I don't think so now, except perhaps for games involving the Big Tall Serve Merchants like Mario Ancic. There was plenty of base line play between Hewitt & Baghdatis last night, for example.

True about Hewitt and Baghdatis, though I hold that the average matchup still tends to feature too short points in comparison with "the golden age" of Borg, Connors and McEnroe.