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For years, I've told tennis-loving friends that there's a sort of swishy misogyny amongst the extremely wealthy men who control the sport behind the scenes. With some very rare exceptions like Evert- or Serena-types, they don't truly respect the female players. For them, the WTA is basically a prostitution/escort service for their elitist pals or, secondarily, the ATP, and it's an organization where pretty gals can do photo-ops to promote the sport to male viewers with only casual interest in tennis.
How else do you explain why, for years, the WTA site has been just a cheesy-ass knock-knock joke when compared with the sites for the NFL, NBA, MLB...pretty much ANY other pro sport. You would THINK that the objective would be to draw attention to up-and-coming, highly-talented players to promote the sport. Instead, we get THIS for Wimbledon quarterfinalist Muchova's "bio":
https://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/322191/title/Karolina-MUCHOVA#bio
A lot of effort went into that, huh?Great photo, too
.....And that's not some isolated example but rather par for the course with the WTA site. In Mexico, we have major problems with nepotism, but common sense tells you that--if you have a shamefully-lazy unemployed nephew who dropped out of high school and can't last even an hour without masturbating--you give him a routine job, like sweeping and mopping the warehouse, so that he can have a little spending money for groceries. You DON'T appoint him as city chief of police or even let him serve as the website manager for a big-time sport
EDIT: At least one person at the WTA appears to have read many of the posters' complaints and taken corrective action, and that's why the thread title has been changed a bit.
How else do you explain why, for years, the WTA site has been just a cheesy-ass knock-knock joke when compared with the sites for the NFL, NBA, MLB...pretty much ANY other pro sport. You would THINK that the objective would be to draw attention to up-and-coming, highly-talented players to promote the sport. Instead, we get THIS for Wimbledon quarterfinalist Muchova's "bio":
https://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/322191/title/Karolina-MUCHOVA#bio
A lot of effort went into that, huh?Great photo, too
.....And that's not some isolated example but rather par for the course with the WTA site. In Mexico, we have major problems with nepotism, but common sense tells you that--if you have a shamefully-lazy unemployed nephew who dropped out of high school and can't last even an hour without masturbating--you give him a routine job, like sweeping and mopping the warehouse, so that he can have a little spending money for groceries. You DON'T appoint him as city chief of police or even let him serve as the website manager for a big-time sportEDIT: At least one person at the WTA appears to have read many of the posters' complaints and taken corrective action, and that's why the thread title has been changed a bit.
