NEW YORK _ Women have been running the full Boston Marathon since the late 1960s. Girls stopped playing six-on-six and half-court high school basketball in the early 1990s. Why then do women still play best-of-three sets in Grand Slam tennis tournaments while men play five?
The answer is quite simple: tradition and sexism.
And that is why it is time to stop. It's time for women and men to play the same number of sets in Grand Slams, just like they do on the rest of the tour where all matches are three sets. This seems to be the growing opinion of a number of tennis players and greats, including Billie Jean King, the player who led the charge for women and men to get equal pay in Grand Slam events when she threatened to boycott the U.S. Open in 1973.
