GDB wrote:luckyone wrote:GDB wrote:
That's how I would define it.
As to the other question, why make the press conferences mandatory, when did it happen that they became so in the first place?
How many really watch them as compared to the match itself?
Answering a question with a question is not an answer. What is your suggestion...
To answer your question, I don’t know when it became mandatory. But it became the custom and expectation after pro tennis and amateur tennis merged in the late 1960s. Tennis boomed shortly thereafter.
As before, it's about a sense of proportion, why I linked the article, pro sport just loves to trumpet it's healthy living message, one reason why tobacco advertising is a thing of the past.
One player who did (and still does?) spreads his brainless views on the biggest public health crisis of our times and helps spread infection and falsehood, is he competing in the Mens's part of this event?
Another refuses to do a press conference of all things and gets a ton a crap on her.
Not saying she should not be sanctioned in some way, she broke an agreement.
But in the real world (which big sport is decidedly NOT part of), it appears very odd, to some at least.
Which is still not an answer. Guess you don’t actually have a solution, just complaints with false equivalencies.
BTW, since you haven’t explicitly brought it up and are basically saying tennis has a problem with sexism, Novak Djokovic was defaulted from the US Open last year for violating the rules—though he complained it was disproportionate and unfair. Meanwhile ask Andre Agassi (himself twice defaulted), Nick Kyrgios, and John McEnroe about it—by my count four men and three women have been defaulted from matches (Serena Williams, Anastasia Rodionova, and Irina Spirlea). Please keep prattling about fabricated proportions while you simultaneously claim not to follow professional tennis, all the while citing someone else’s editorial. Thanks. I’m out.