04-04-2023, 06:13 PM
Simon Briggs
Tue, 4 April 2023 at 4:36 pm SGT
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Increasingly, it seems as if the ever-increasing pay-packets available on the WTA Tour ...... are equating to shorter careers rather than longer ones.
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women are said to find professional tennis a lonelier lifestyle than men.
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Martina Navratilova’s coach Mike Estep said “When I played, we all tried like hell to beat one another but then went out for dinner or a beer at night. That doesn’t happen on the women’s tour. They’re all friendly to one another in the locker-room, but once they leave the locker-room, they almost always stick to themselves.”
This diagnosis has changed little over the past 30 years.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/womens-tennis...23968.html
Tue, 4 April 2023 at 4:36 pm SGT
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Increasingly, it seems as if the ever-increasing pay-packets available on the WTA Tour ...... are equating to shorter careers rather than longer ones.
......
women are said to find professional tennis a lonelier lifestyle than men.
......
Martina Navratilova’s coach Mike Estep said “When I played, we all tried like hell to beat one another but then went out for dinner or a beer at night. That doesn’t happen on the women’s tour. They’re all friendly to one another in the locker-room, but once they leave the locker-room, they almost always stick to themselves.”
This diagnosis has changed little over the past 30 years.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/womens-tennis...23968.html