Post by ovechkin8 on Jul 5, 2008 10:58:06 GMT -1
Womens tennis ? A dreary bore at present with 2 blokes set to battle it out on centre court.
The crowd looks disinterested for the most part & how the LTA can justify equal prize money is laughable.
The quality of the games is extremely poor (mind you the mens semis were pretty tame affairs too). They also only play to the best of three rather than five.
In any other occupation women deserve equal pay (there is still a noticeable disparity between the sexes for doing the same jobs) but in this instance a pay gap is merited.
Anyway on to Laura Robson.
Britains brightest talent for a while she is in the final of the girls Wimbledon at the tender age of 14.
She has already won a number of girls events & the coaching team atthe LTA inc.Karl Maes former coach of Kim Clijsters have very high hopes for her.
From this interview:
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7489951.stm
she appears to be a very level headed ,confident youngster & for once actually speaks perfect English.
This is despite being born in the sports mad city of Melbourne where her father was posted.
She has comprehensively beaten the number 1 seed Melanie Oudin of the USA & a couple of eastern Europeans Jovanovski of Serbia & Tabakova of Slovakia & will play Lertcheewakarn of Thailand aiming to become the first girl since the lovely Annabel Croft who won way back in 1984.
She was ably backed up by Naomi Broady who reached the QFs as well so things are looking up in that direction. Sadly nothing in the boys & even so caution must be exercised.
Of all the talented juniors produced over the last decade ie Martin Lee ,Jamie Baker , James Mottram only Andy Murray has fulfilled his potential.
The crowd looks disinterested for the most part & how the LTA can justify equal prize money is laughable.
The quality of the games is extremely poor (mind you the mens semis were pretty tame affairs too). They also only play to the best of three rather than five.
In any other occupation women deserve equal pay (there is still a noticeable disparity between the sexes for doing the same jobs) but in this instance a pay gap is merited.
Anyway on to Laura Robson.
Britains brightest talent for a while she is in the final of the girls Wimbledon at the tender age of 14.
She has already won a number of girls events & the coaching team atthe LTA inc.Karl Maes former coach of Kim Clijsters have very high hopes for her.
From this interview:
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7489951.stm
she appears to be a very level headed ,confident youngster & for once actually speaks perfect English.
This is despite being born in the sports mad city of Melbourne where her father was posted.
She has comprehensively beaten the number 1 seed Melanie Oudin of the USA & a couple of eastern Europeans Jovanovski of Serbia & Tabakova of Slovakia & will play Lertcheewakarn of Thailand aiming to become the first girl since the lovely Annabel Croft who won way back in 1984.
She was ably backed up by Naomi Broady who reached the QFs as well so things are looking up in that direction. Sadly nothing in the boys & even so caution must be exercised.
Of all the talented juniors produced over the last decade ie Martin Lee ,Jamie Baker , James Mottram only Andy Murray has fulfilled his potential.