• undeffeined@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    I went and looked it up and both sisters did lose by a large margin against the man ranked 204th, back I “the battle of the sexes” in 1998.

    I guess their point is that the gap between pro and amateur is as big as the gap between professional men and women, in Tennis at least.

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        6 hours ago

        Only the other person can do that.

        I offered my take for two reasons: trying be more active on Lemmy and because that comment had me learning something new today.

        Reading that the top Womens tennis player couldn’t beat a man that is not even in the top 200 sounded fishy to me and I was surprised when I learned that is true.

        Relearned also something today, I can’t tell what other people think,.speacilly on social media and shouldn’t try to guess what that is.

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          1 hour ago

          If they can’t see how the number one woman losing against the 200th ranked man in a discussion about how 12 percent of men think they could score a point against Serena Williams, then they don’t want to see