How do you justify women playing 3 set matches in Grandslam?

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Question by coolsc: How do you justify women playing 3 set matches in Grandslam?

This is going on for a long time. Women demand equal prize money and I am in favour of that.
But I have not seeen many women players wanting to play 5 set matches atleast in Grandslams.
Tennis is sport of skill, endurance and stamina. They are not competing against men, but playing against each other only.
The way i see is, we have same length tracks for men and women in athletics. Women don't run half the distance as men to win Gold medal.
Then why in Tennis it's different?




Best answer:

Answer by rem0teking
I can see it for tennis..... the rules are set up for women only, men do not compete against them. Women do not have the same endurance and stamina and the matches would deteriorate for both competitors in the 5th set. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried 5 set matches in the past and modified the rules accordingly.

The same holds true for golf......shorter course layouts, 3 rounds instead of 4...

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