Hate to point this out, but most of the events on the LPGA tour are 4-day events.
http://www.lpga.com/content/LPGA_Schedule.pdf
And I also hate to point out that the only men's tennis tournaments where best of 5 sets are played are the 4 majors.
Still feeling that way?
Last edited by dabvu2498; 01-01-2011 at 10:43 PM.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
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They wouldn't be playing the Doubles if they played a "real" match. Let me know the next time a "Doubles" match is showcased on CBS or NBC during a Finals Weekend.
Most of the men do, too. The really good men players don't as they have more important things to do than play Doubles.
It's good that women's golf has finally figured out that they should be playing 4-day tournaments like the men's major tours (European and PGA).
That pretty much leaves basketball and tennis. Since the only tournaments that anybody watches when it comes to women's tennis are the Majors, then they should change to best-of-five sets just as the men do if they want to be taken seriously.
Once upon a time, the conventional wisdom was that if a woman ran over 220 yards, she would die.
Watch Wimbledon and you'll notice that the schedule is always a topic of conversation. Assuming everything goes as planned, there's not much free time in the two weeks. Delays are such an issue that Wimbledon went through the expense of installing a roof over center court. Changing from three to five sets will add 50-150% to the match time. Let's assume the average of that to be 75%. Let's assume that a women's match lasts around 1:30. Now the average match lasts 2:38. That's an additional 143 hours of match time. And that's if include only womens' singles.
And as others stated, five sets is the exception and not the rule for the men.
Last edited by paintmered; 01-02-2011 at 09:29 PM.
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
In the early years of Tennis, men couldn't accept defeat. So after 1 game, the loser said, "Best of 3 games". Still not content, the man said, "First one to 6 games wins." Then loser said, "you must win by 2 games". The loser still not happy, says, "Best of three sets". And finally the loser says "Best of 5 sets" wins the match.
Actually, I think it's the parity that made the streak possible. Parity for everyone else at least. Essentially Women's basketball used to be about a 4-5team race. There was UConn, Tennessee, Stanford, and maybe 2 or 3 other teams who could really play. They got all the top players, they could give each other a good game, but really they were going to beat everyone else by 40-50 points.
As the game and the talent pool expanded, more and more top players went to different schools. It started to thin out the top teams. Except for UConn.
So now UConn is collecting the same number of top players as before, (if not more because they're the biggest super power) and the rest of the teams are starting to see the talent level flatten out. Now pretty much everyone from about 2-20 can give each other a game, but all were going to get creamed by UConn.
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