I went and looked it up and both sisters did lose by a large margin against the man ranked 204th, back I “the battle of the sexes” in 1998.
I guess their point is that the gap between pro and amateur is as big as the gap between professional men and women, in Tennis at least.
Edit: since learned that throughout all the “battle of the sexes” matches in Tennis, Women have won against top players so the gap is much smaller than I first realized.
Serena was 17 and years away from reaching full strength. Venus was not much older and was never really a physical player like Serena. Please do not cherry pick factoids, especially if you do not give the proper context.
I had the opportunity to read more about tennis history, more specifically about the “battle of the sexes” and it’s not as skewed with women also winning against top 10 ranked players.
I offered my take for two reasons: trying be more active on Lemmy and because that comment had me learning something new today.
Reading that the top Womens tennis player couldn’t beat a man that is not even in the top 200 sounded fishy to me and I was surprised when I learned that is true.
Relearned also something today, I can’t tell what other people think,.speacilly on social media and shouldn’t try to guess what that is.
You were curious about something so you went and learned about it. Good for you. It still doesn’t explain why is the subject being brought up at all. You may not want to guess but I will: because the original commenter is a sexist prick.
Explain why this comment is relevant.
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I went and looked it up and both sisters did lose by a large margin against the man ranked 204th, back I “the battle of the sexes” in 1998.
I guess their point is that the gap between pro and amateur is as big as the gap between professional men and women, in Tennis at least.
Edit: since learned that throughout all the “battle of the sexes” matches in Tennis, Women have won against top players so the gap is much smaller than I first realized.
Serena was 17 and years away from reaching full strength. Venus was not much older and was never really a physical player like Serena. Please do not cherry pick factoids, especially if you do not give the proper context.
I had the opportunity to read more about tennis history, more specifically about the “battle of the sexes” and it’s not as skewed with women also winning against top 10 ranked players.
Again, explain why is that relevant.
Only the other person can do that.
I offered my take for two reasons: trying be more active on Lemmy and because that comment had me learning something new today.
Reading that the top Womens tennis player couldn’t beat a man that is not even in the top 200 sounded fishy to me and I was surprised when I learned that is true.
Relearned also something today, I can’t tell what other people think,.speacilly on social media and shouldn’t try to guess what that is.
You were curious about something so you went and learned about it. Good for you. It still doesn’t explain why is the subject being brought up at all. You may not want to guess but I will: because the original commenter is a sexist prick.
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Untrained men thinking they can beat a woman just because they are a woman is idiotic and unfortunately rooted in sexism.