Stefanos Tsitsipasa Greek tennis sensation, has rekindled an old tennis controversy by asking Why women don’t play five sets in Grand Slam tournamentsThe old tennis topic of equal pay has resurfaced, with the world number 5 reigniting the debate.
The Greek firmly believes in it and has called for a change in the format of the Grand Slam tournament, which Karolina Pliskova reacted in a hilarious way.
Karolina Pliskova reacts to Tsitsipas’ comments
The Czech Republic tennis star took to Instagram to share a story from an article by First sports regarding Tsitsipas’ desire to see a change in the structure of major events. laughing smileyas well as “Big brainr’ And ‘Clever’ stickers, accompanying the story.
Speaking of a Change in the format of Grand Slam tournamentsTsitsipas said: “I don’t want to be controversial. There’s also the issue of equal pay and all that, women getting equal pay for playing best-of-three games, then equal pay for playing best-of-five games. I don’t know. There’s also a lot of scientists and statisticians, whatever, that are out there. I’ve been told that women have better endurance than men. I don’t know.”
“Maybe they can also play best-of-five, I guess. For the Grand Slams, best-of-five, I like that. On the other hand, we would have seen a lot more diversity in terms of the different Grand Slam winners if it was best-of-three, I think. I really think the Grand Slam winners would be very different if it was best-of-three for men.” world number 5 added further.
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