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[quote=Anonymous]For those who are likening the NBA/WNBA with tennis, there's more to know about the gender equity in tennis.

In tennis, the gender equity is currently only imposed on events where the two genders both play at the same venue at the same time.  So the four grand slams and the major 1000 (top level) tournaments where the men's tour and women's tour overlap.

On the general tour where the genders play separately (even ones where the women play one week and the men play another week) there is no gender equity for prize money enforced.  Essentially where the audience attendance, televised matches and advertising are all overlapping, they have parity in prize money.  When the events are separate, with women playing at a different time from the men, then the prize money is not synchronized and the payout for the men is generally higher.  As with the NBA and WNBA, ATP (men only) tour events attract more attendance, higher television ratings and more time and cost advertising than WTA (women only) tour events.

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