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It’s hard to tell when week 2 really starts now that there's play on the middle Sunday, when you can tell the pretenders from the contenders (a MacEnroe quote that he probably made during the fourth round.) Anyway, here’s my round-up of the business end of The Championship.

( Singles quarter finals to finals )

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I am shocked that we’re supposed to applaud the fact that the WTA are finally hoping to give women equal prize money with the men for Masters level tour events. Where they literally play the same amount of sets? Why hasn’t this been the case for years? I think the argument for parity there is stronger than at the grand slams, where women don’t play best of five (minority view, there, but I’ve always taken the view that you should get equal pay for equal work. A marathon is the same length for women as men.) And in a few years after that, the WTA plan to have got all the tournaments at about equivalent level. Wow!

Amazon Prime offered me the opportunity to watch some of the Nottingham Open, about which I’ve read over the years, ( Read more... )