In an article in Canada’s National Post, sports writer Joe O’Connor presents the following conundrum:
Women play 60 minutes in hockey, 90 in soccer and run 26.2 miles marathons, just like men do. And yet in tennis, in 2011, in an era where the gender wars are supposed to be over, on Sunday two women will meet in this year’s U.S. Open final and play best-of-three-sets — while the men will play best-of-five the following day.
Apparently women used to play best-of-five matches, but, according to 1973 champ Billie Jean King:
