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The 2013 Women’s Grand Slam season has opened with the Australian Open, just like the last finished.  With Women being deemed eligible for military combat duty, it’s time for us to reflect on one of the greatest double standards and hypocrisy in modern sport.

When the Women’s winner was crowned in Australia, she was issued a cheque for the same amount as the Men’s winner, however, none of the Women will have been required to play the same requisite number of sets to win a Grand Slam Match as the Men.  Men play a best 3 Sets out of 5, while the Women play a best 2 Sets of 3.  That is nothing more than simple hypocrisy.

In a day and age when inconsistencies garner quick and swift correction by advocates of all types, it’s amazing that such speciousness has gone uncorrected.

I pose this conundrum each and every year, and at each and every Tennis Grand Slam, but never to have it be adequately answered.  It is as if the topic is ignored, it will go away, but in a faire and equitable society, it just can not !

 There is no other major sport that “massages” their format like Women’s Tennis …

- Women in golf play the same game, the same number of holes, and same course, just from compensatory distances …

- Women in basketball play the same four (4) quarters …

- At the Olympics, the Women competed at the same events as the Men, just against other Women …

… and so on, and so forth.

So, why, I ask, don’t the Women play best 3-of-5 Sets like the Men ?   It’s not like I’m asking them to compete against the Men, as Women all over the world do daily in their respective workforces.

So, why is it so wrong to suggest that Women playing anything less than 3-of-5 Sets in a Grand Slam is faire, ethical, and just ?

Women in the workforce expect equal pay for equal work and that has been guaranteed by the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009!

Now, American Women will be in combat right next to Men, but yet we can’t expect Women on the Tennis Tour to play Grand Slam events just like the Men’s Tour ?

So, how is that they earn equal pay ?   They are certainly not expending the same effort as the Men.

Add my name to the list of people who find the Women’s Tour wonderful to watch, but not really as it ought to be !