Denis Shapovalov has managed to fully immerse himself in the gender gap issue in tennis, thanks to his girlfriend Mirjam Bjorklund, a player who currently occupies the 145th position in the WTA ranking. Shapovalov explained his piint of view: “When I first started on the Tour, I naively assumed that men and women were treated equally.
Then my girlfriend Mirjam opened my eyes. Last year she qualified for a WTA 250. I told her: great, at least you will earn 7,000 dollars just for being in the draw. Denis but where do you live, she replied: if I get 100 dollars, that’s a lot.
The gender gap doesn’t make sense, it’s totally unfair and it shouldn’t exist. If you’re a woman, you have little chance of survival in the world of tennis. Yet girls fill stadiums, have excellent television ratings, are perfect testimonials for brands: they have nothing less than men.
Last year, a men’s and women’s tournament were played simultaneously in Washington. Yet to win the first round match, a tennis player earned $14,280 and a female tennis player only $4,100. It’s less than a third! I lost the ATP 250 final in Seoul last year: I took 100,000 dollars.
What happened to Billie Jean King’s gender battles?”
The Gender Gap between men’s and women’s
The gender gap between the men’s and women’s Tours…
