The Russian Maria Sharapova greets the public after defeating Anastacia Rodionova of Australia in Wimbledon.
The Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova joked of his French colleague Gilles Simon on Thursday for having said that the women were not deserving the same prizes in money that the men, appearing that " there are more people who sees my parties that them of him ". After going on to third round in the Opened Britisher, Sharapova, maxim preclasificada of the tilt, he said that the women had fought very much to equalize the prizes of the tennis.
" It was a great challenge and nobody supported us ", he declared one of the world the número. " Some years have happened since we achieve it. We are really proud of it and are going to continue constructing the sport to make it bigger ", he added. For your part, the American tennis player Serena Williams - four times champion in Wimbledon - also interfered in the discussion. " She is much better than he ", Williams declared, referring to his Russian rival. Simon should have confronted the topic in the press conference later to his defeat in the second round opposite to the Belgian Xavier Malisse, in which 15 of 16 questions were on the topic of the prizes. The Frenchman hurried to indicating that the spectators had to pay 15 pounds sterlings (23,26 dollars) more in the masculine final than in the feminine one.
" Only look at the prices of the income by the masculine final and of the feminine one, for example. Thereby it works ", it held. " I have the sensation that the masculine tennis is more interesting than the feminine tennis ", added the Gallic player, insisting in that was a question of entertainment and not of the quantity of sets that are played. The men play parties to better of five sets, whereas the women do it to better of three. " When Shakira sings, more money wins that the majority of the men because the whole world wants to see her. It is like that ", held Simon.
The Frenchman said that he was sure that most of the tennis players men were thinking in the same way as he when he speaks with them in the wardrobes. " Maybe they cannot say it, maybe do not do it, probably 2 million dollars lose in his contracts if they say it ", he noticed. BEGINNING OF EQUALITY After losing in sets traversed before Malisse, a journalist suggested that Simon should return 20 per cent of the entry for his party because it had not managed to compare the value of the worn-out money. " Maria is more famous than I ", said Simon. " I know it. She deserves to gain more money him that I. This it is not the problem ", it continued.
Williams clarified that he believes that the feminine tennis frequently criticized in comparison with the golden age which he enjoys the masculine tennis with the presence of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, is so valuable as is deserved. " The feminine tennis is really impressive ", was affirmed by it. " It is the great one fights. For years (we) also fight with Billie Jean King and Venus (his major sister) ", he added. Four tilts of the Grand Slam pay the same quantity of money in prizes for men and women. Stacey Allaster, executive chairwoman of the WTA - governing entity of the feminine tennis-, published a communiqué related to the debate.
" The tennis, including (tilts of) Grand Slam, is aligned by our modern and progressive company when it is a question of the beginning of equality ", he noticed. " I cannot believe that in these days there is anybody who could think otherwise. This type of thoughts are the reason for the one that was founded the WTA and always we will fight for this right ", it underlined.
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