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irishenglish The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.) (1465* d) RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.) 23 Oct 08


NO WAV, you have never elaborated why you feel, as you say, females are better suited for table tennis. Your blog does not elaborate on it either, rather, it just says that females are better suited for table tennis because of "strain on the elbows." I want to know why. You post your material on here to foster some type of discussion. Let me, and all the fine and amazing women who post on this forum know why you feel women are so ill suited to play a sport. Let me know why you feel they are better suited towards table tennis. Let me know how on earth you could say that with such amazing women tennis players as the Williams Sisters, Martina Navratilova, Chris Everett, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, Lindsey Davenport, Martina Hingis, Billie Jean King. Let me know how you come to this decision in 2008 after the Women's Singles Champions were contested for the first time in the following years:

Australia-1922
French-1897
US Open-1887
Wimbledon-1884

Well...would you look at that, Wimbledon decided 114 years ago that women deserved their own championship match. By the way, the first men's championship at Wimbledon took place only seven years before that, in 1877.

So please WAV, answer how with a tradition in the modern era of equality for women and men as players of the sport, do you come by a stance that says women aren't suited to play the sport, rather they should be playing table tennis. Who are you to make a judgement on it anyway, with some of the most popular tennis players in the world being, in fact, women? You want to tell Venus and Serena that they should be making the switch indoors to table tennis? I said it before, but I'm quite certain that the lowest ranked woman on the pro circuit would beat you handily WAV.




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