And she offered a recipe for solving the problem: “Maybe they should just start the night session a little earlier to be able to play two matches each. I understand that it’s complicated by the fact that the men play in five sets, but other Grand Slam tournaments handle that.”
Serbian tennis player Olga Danilovic, who lost to Jaber in the third round of Roland Garros, backed up her opponent. “I heard about it. I think it’s stupid. That’s all. I can kind of understand some things, but I think we play great tennis, too. Our match with Jaber was great, a lot of other women’s matches are great. We have some great female athletes, too. But that’s just my opinion, that’s all. I’m not mad. I only say that because I genuinely think our matches are interesting,” Danilovich said at the press conference.
Of course, in women’s tennis you can’t have drama like when a player is coming off an 0-2 set lead. But does that make the games worse? You don’t have to look far for examples. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova capped off her fourth-round match – 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 against Elise Mertens. Any true tennis fan can easily recall a number of brilliant games involving the fair sex. There’ll be such matches at Roland Garros, don’t doubt. And don’t be in a hurry to sell your tickets.
