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Mauresmo talked about this at length on the Tennis Podcast the day after she made the controversial comment. I don’t know if was her or the podcast hosts (I think it was Mauresmo) who said ideally it starts a little earlier and they have a doubles match or legends match to go with the one main draw match. One match isn’t enough for a session. (The French love the legends draw, so it work at times.)

She's getting a crash course in management this year for sure. Perplexing that, for whatever reason, she though she could make a statement like that and avoid backlash, especially as a former player on tour and also after Iga's comments drawing attention to that aspect. Her comments weren't truly taken out of context like she's trying to now claim.

Here's a thread that includes quotes that she made on TC along with a video. I imagine it's most of what she said on the podcast. The video is geotagged so not everyone can view it, which is why he wrote out the quotes as well.


https://twitter.com/jamesgraysport/stat ... 4675060736

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I don't know why the author of the article above mentions Raducanu, but not Leylah.

Look at the URL--because he's British!

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Mauresmo has taken a lot of flack for the scheduling of the night matches. Devil's advocate here. Does she have to do better or does the WTA and its players need to do better?

Devil's advocate part II: Wasn't this the first year with night matches? Therefore, risking a 55 minute Iga demolition or a second set Badosa retirement may have been something she did not want to happen.
But yes, next year they should do an even split. Set up a rule/guideline: highest remaining playing seed of the day that has NOT been showcased already gets to play. If they all have played, repeat. Unless you have a monster blockbuster (Rafa/Nole type).

Not the first year of night matches, started last year. It is Mauresmo's first year running RG though.

Another counterpoint I've seen mentioned that wasn't brought up in the article is a good point to me as well. Would they care if that was a Serena demolition? Most I've seen have said they are flat out lying by saying it would've mattered, it would be the night match regardless at least once.


I'm firmly in the camp of RG needing to do better, not the women. There were some great women's matchups that could've been given the nod for a night match that were not. And Mauresmo of all people throwing cold water on the women's game was disappointing and also rich from where I'm sitting. Mauresmo wouldn't have rated as a "star" anywhere but in France during her playing days. I can't recall a female tournament director at RG before her, so for her to say she's a proponent of the women's game and yet for this to be one of the major storylines to come out of her first year is HIGHLY disappointing.

[JazzNU]

Look at the URL--because he's British!

That's not really why though. Like it or not, after Wimbledon and even more so after she won the title, a ton of companies, the WTA, and the US Open, have been working overtime in making her a star and it's been working in large part in terms of a non-tennis context. Doesn't mean Leylah isn't great and her profile hasn't skyrocketed considerably. But Leylah hasn't been the one amassing over 2 million Instagram followers, getting the beauty company endorsements, getting covers of magazines, and going to many high profile events. Emma has. Think Kournikova or Sharapova. It's not about being British in that context, it's no question of which of the two is a bigger star, and that was part of the criticism from Mauresmo.

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