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Excellent article (in my opinion) even if you don't agree with it: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/ray- ... the-truth/

It's all rubbish though. Yes, over the last few years it has been the tight battle between Federer and Nadal and laterly Djokovic and Murray that has brought the crowds to tennis. But before them it was the likes of Graf and Seles battling together, bringing in the crowds when men's tennis was being dominated by boring Sampras. It's all a cycle.

Hmm, I don't think the points raised in the article can be dismissed so easily though, nor so quickly. Certainly there's food for thought. Equal pay for equal work is fair enough (yet feminists still claim, mendaciously, that there's a pay gap http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=710). Equal pay or prize money in occupations such as tennis or entertainment is more complicated in that most people here are self-employed, and income usually depends on what or who is more popular with the public, i.e. who achieves the bigger sales. This is why your local village pop group earns nothing like an internationally famous boys band which achieves record sales and huge concerts.

Yet there may still be a case for something like equal prize money in tennis, all things considered. Personally, I've always liked to watch women's tennis rather than men's simply because the matches tend to be shorter overall, though I prefer to watch soccer or snooker, which are a hundred times less boring.

But the main point of the article should not be missed: whether or not people should be dismissed from (or pressurised into resigning) their positions for having expressed an honest opinion, in what appears to be a retrospective imposition of mob rule. It was such an attitude by the PC thought police which led to the outrageous treatment of Sir Tim Hunt last year following some self-deprecating humorous remarks he made at a conference in Japan:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... peech.html
https://j4mb.wordpress.com/?s=Tim+Hunt