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I thought they often, if not always, get paid the same?
http://www.usopen.org/en_US/about/history/prizemoney.html
I also meant that tennis tournaments usually have both men's and women's competitions, and TV coverage is pretty equal.
I agree on the number of sets (aren't there some competitions in which men only play two sets for the win, too?), that's definitely similar to the shorter women's race distances in cycling. Someone will probably make a similar argument that women couldn't possibly play more, until they do, when there probably wouldn't be any problem with it. :)
I personally find tennis a bit boring, but I definitely prefer shorter matches, except for the one tennis match I can remember really enjoying, between Michael Westphal and Tomas Smid in the 1980s. That was very long and still very thrilling.
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Oliver Schick
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Is that the same women's tennis where they don't play five sets or get paid as much as the men? I think they've got a ways to go in the equality stakes too.