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France's Gilles Simon, who was just elected to the ATP Player Council, tells French radio he's opposed to men and women tennis players receiving equal prize money considering the current climate.
"I think that men’s tennis is really ahead of women’s tennis at this stage," he said. "Once more, the men spent surely twice as much time on court as the women at the French Open. We often talk about salary equality. I don’t think it’s something that works in sport. I think we are the only sport that has parity with the women in terms of prize money. Meanwhile, men’s tennis remains more attractive than women’s tennis at this moment."
Simon also told L’Equipe he was upset that the ATP tour agreed to make the tournament in Rome a joint event with the women without consulting the players directly.
"The year before, the women, for their final, they had 20 spectators," he said. "And so, in that case, you save them, but when you want a practice court, there aren’t any left.”
When told of Simon's comments, Marion Bartoli told Le Figaro that "he needs to get up earlier."
American teenager Sloane Stephens reacted differently, saying she does not care what Simon says because he was mean to her when she was a kid at the Sunrise Challenger in Florida.
"He hit me with a ball when I was ball kid for the first time. He hit me right in my chest because he lost a point and set he turned around and slammed the ball and it hit me," Stephens told a small group of U.S. reporters. "Whatever he says, that means nothing to me. We had discussion about it on the court last year because he was trying to kick me off the practice court in Estoril and I'm like dude you don't have this court. His coach was nice and he asked me, 'Why don't you like him?' and I said because when I was 10 he hit me with the ball and he didn't even say sorry and kind of walked off. So I was like, 'I don't like him."
Simon added: “Am I going to incur the wrath of feminist organizations? I don’t care."
France's Gilles Simon, who was just elected to the ATP Player Council, tells French radio he's opposed to men and women tennis players receiving equal prize money considering the current climate.
"I think that men’s tennis is really ahead of women’s tennis at this stage," he said. "Once more, the men spent surely twice as much time on court as the women at the French Open. We often talk about salary equality. I don’t think it’s something that works in sport. I think we are the only sport that has parity with the women in terms of prize money. Meanwhile, men’s tennis remains more attractive than women’s tennis at this moment."
Simon also told L’Equipe he was upset that the ATP tour agreed to make the tournament in Rome a joint event with the women without consulting the players directly.
"The year before, the women, for their final, they had 20 spectators," he said. "And so, in that case, you save them, but when you want a practice court, there aren’t any left.”
When told of Simon's comments, Marion Bartoli told Le Figaro that "he needs to get up earlier."
American teenager Sloane Stephens reacted differently, saying she does not care what Simon says because he was mean to her when she was a kid at the Sunrise Challenger in Florida.
"He hit me with a ball when I was ball kid for the first time. He hit me right in my chest because he lost a point and set he turned around and slammed the ball and it hit me," Stephens told a small group of U.S. reporters. "Whatever he says, that means nothing to me. We had discussion about it on the court last year because he was trying to kick me off the practice court in Estoril and I'm like dude you don't have this court. His coach was nice and he asked me, 'Why don't you like him?' and I said because when I was 10 he hit me with the ball and he didn't even say sorry and kind of walked off. So I was like, 'I don't like him."
Simon added: “Am I going to incur the wrath of feminist organizations? I don’t care."
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i agree 100% make the girls play best of 5.... earn there money..
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no don't do that
 interesting from gilles. surprising what sloane stephens says about him, always seems like such a nice guy. not that i doubt it on the back of those comments |
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"The year before, the women, for their final, they had 20 spectators,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVwuZs4MAo |
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Well said Gilles
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this match on now = 10x more interesting than a Gilles Simon match
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simon vs monfils from AO 2009 is perhaps the most boring match I've ever watched.
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can't talk about individual matches as you're then going round in circles
simon vs nadal madrid masters 08  aussie open womens final, aussie opens mens final. compare, discuss  generally speaking, he's right. that's obvious really |
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people care about the top 4, not the mens circuit on the whole, if he came from one of the top guys people would listen more
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i'm sure the feminists will listen to that tbh
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its like a woman turning up at work doing the same job as me but asking for the same pay for half a days work... you couldnt make it up...
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You forgot the part where you typically perform the job far better on any given day
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it's like people ignore the fact that there is just as many horrible mens matches as womens
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its like a woman turning up at work doing the same job as me but asking for the same pay for half a days work... you couldnt make it up...
or take the gender issue out of the equation altogether as it's not just about the quality or the attractiveness of an event 'it's like another man doing the same job for half the day for the same pay...' that would cause equal controversy. they work less in these slams. generally speaking of course (for any pedantics), and it's as simple as that. and because of it they can then go on to earn more  , errani in the french open for example...if anything that's not politically correct yet that fact is seemingly overlooked |
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and they had to wait a lot, and work during two days to get the same money as fognini.
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the loser will make less even, since this is a 1st round.
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actually never mind, fog had worked 2 days as well. aarons point was better
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i said generally speaking (for the pedantics)
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the comment about women having a chance to play doubles and earn more is a fair point, but I don't see how you prevent this. no system is perfect, and this only becomes an issue during the slams anyway. if you lower singles prize money for women in the slams that would be unfair to those who never have an intention to play doubles anyway and if you lower doubles prize money for women that would be unfair for the female doubles specialists.
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or should there be a gap for how much money you can earn in a specific tournament?
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make the girls play 5 sets in slams. end of...
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Anyone watching Wozniacki vs Paszek?
instead of using this for a reason as to why it is deserve, you will of course use a match between two crap players as to why they don't |
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jsimpson67. 27 Jun 12 17:08
interesting from gilles. surprising what sloane stephens says about him, always seems like such a nice guy. not that i doubt it on the back of those comments yeah Jsimp, that surprised me a bit about Simon as well |
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Don.... you still there mate?
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Look aaronh, the point is on average Men attract far more people to Wimbledon and the slams than Women do, hence they deserve more and why they used to get paid more before the PC world developed and feminism went to far turning to sexism
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For the moment Al, until Betfair starts giving odd concessions for Women and my edge goes completely
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Might do a poll in the Wimbledon queue over the weekend, reckon even 1 person in the 1st hundred would name a female player as the top person/match they've come to see?
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OK Don.... got your message.... replied..... any ideas when to launch it?
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i always knew that simon is a cold blooded bastard.
but WTA is a joke and they don't deserve equal moneyz. they hava Wozza as #1 for 1 year or so. wta is a circus and we all know that. |
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Will this be people going to Centre Court who will most likely want to watch Fed and Djokovic or Ground Passes to go see the likes of Florian Mayer and Istomin?
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either way, the issue would not be with those queueing as they are more likely to be tennis fanatics than the casual viewer
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/27/507458/tennis-player-equal-pay/?mobile=nc
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012
/06/27/507458/tennis-player-equal-pay/?mobile=nc |
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Simon Added “Am I going to incur the wrath of feminist organizations? I don’t care."
Legend. |
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some of the facebook comments from the thinkprogress article:
Men's tennis is "more attractive" than women's? Says who? Typical misogynist cowardice---let's see him go up against either of the Williams Sisters if he thinks a man's game is just so much better. I say..let him prove it. Play against one of the top ranked females of tennis and see who takes the game, then your opinion might carry some weight. We need these people to start betting on Betfair. |
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Rather get them off the forum first
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Lots of misandric women SEETHING on facebook
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