John McEnroe (USA, tennis) claims Serena Williams (women's tennis) would be as high as #700 due to mental toughness

from a guy at 201 at the time:

In the end I won, but neither myself, nor Venus or Serena took the game too seriously - we were just having a bit of fun.

Apparently, after the game, Serena and Venus immediately told the press they wanted to challenge a male player again. This time they revised the ranking of the man they wanted to face, to 350 in the world. I informed the journalist who told me this that in the next week I was set to lose a lot of ATP points and drop down to 350 in the rankings. I told him that if Venus and Serena waited just one week they could challenge me all over again!

That never came about, but when I saw Venus a few months later at the French Open she came up to me with a big smile on her face and said, 'You know that thing in Australia - it never happened!'

NPR = fake news funded by billionaire Democrats

Remember that

Here is a history.

http://www.topendsports.com/sport/tennis/men-v-women.htm

Many people think that Riggs tanked it against Billie Jean King, maybe thinking he had a rematch clause, with the mob involved in illegal betting.

McEnroe would not make the top if he came along today.

Large-scale Ping-Pong wrote:

Speaking as part of a tour to promote his new book “But Seriously”, McEnroe said he would place Williams “like 700 in the world” on the men’s circuit.

“If she had to just play the circuit — the men’s circuit — that would be an entirely different story,” McEnroe told American broadcaster National Public Radio.

Note also that only the top 100 are making a good living (automatic Grand Slam entry), and the second tier (101-200) struggle to make ends meet with travel and coaching, and those lower (200+) are just living a wishful dream."

Good points by McEnroe. Another example of how sexism has ruined sports and taken away opportunities from more deserving superior performers. Williams should never have been paid anything as a professional tennis player (except for maybe travelling expenses) because she is not good enough and there are hundreds of more deserving superior performers on the tennis circuit.

That being said McEnroe and other masters players should not be paid on the masters curcuit today for the same reason - there are too many superior tennis players who are not paid anything.

Hopefully Trump can do something useful for a change and sort out this injustice.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but for those who don't get it, pro athletes make money only if somebody pays to see them, which is not strictly correlated with theur talent. (See Tebow, T.)

Seems like Serena wasn't too happy with his claim. I thought he was being generous if anything.

Why didn't Serena get all pissy with the reporter for bringing her up in the first place? Oh, the reporter is a chick...

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Well, she's a guy, so....

You wouldn't know a woman if she fell in your lap. Also a woman will never fall in your lap.

Well, a fall can come after a trip, so it could happen for the guy accidentally

Karsten Braasch beat both Williams sisters in 1998... who the F$&@ is he?

Another event dubbed a "Battle of the Sexes" took place during the 1998 Australian Open[34] between Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters. Venus and Serena Williams had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked outside the world's top 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both. Braasch was described by one journalist as "a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager".[35][36] The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park,[37] after Braasch had finished a round of golf and two beers. He first took on Serena and after leading 5–0, beat her 6–1. Venus then walked on court and again Braasch was victorious, this time winning 6–2.[38] Braasch said afterwards, "500 and above, no chance". He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game "fun".[39] Braasch said the big difference was that men can chase down shots much easier, and that men put spin on the ball that the women can't handle. The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.

NPR is a joke of a radio network which pushes so many SJW stories. The dork who interviewed him actually expected McEnroe to claim that Serena Williams is the best tennis player ever, which is an absurd thing to claim. Serena Williams dominates men, but nobody in their right mind would think she would stand a chance against a male pro tennis player. Only a SJW wimp would even ask McEnroe a question like this

Barnum, P. T. wrote:

I assume you're being sarcastic, but for those who don't get it, pro athletes make money only if somebody pays to see them, which is not strictly correlated with theur talent. (See Tebow, T.)

That is a good point but the sport should not be promoting inferior performers over superior performers - especially when the difference in performane level is so large. How competitiors are promoted plays a big influence on whether someone is prepared to pay to see them. In this way McEnroe has highlighted that the sport of tennis is sexist to the extreme.

Barnum, P. T. wrote:

I assume you're being sarcastic, but for those who don't get it, pro athletes make money only if somebody pays to see them, which is not strictly correlated with theur talent. (See Tebow, T.)

People would not want to see number 700 players.

f33d wrote:

Barnum, P. T. wrote:

I assume you're being sarcastic, but for those who don't get it, pro athletes make money only if somebody pays to see them, which is not strictly correlated with theur talent. (See Tebow, T.)

People would not want to see number 700 players.

That is like watching the women play. It's all about the illusion of good play between reasonably matched players.

Watching women's track is still generally exciting because it still seems like they are going really fast.

Ayana versus Bekele wrote:

Watching women's track is still generally exciting because it still seems like they are going really fast.

If you watch the replay at 115% speed.

I'll serve your ass like john McEnroe, if your girl steps up I'm slapping the hoe

To put it i perspective 150 HS boys ran faster than the women's world record in the 800 this year. 447 D1, 80 D2 and 56 D3 NCAA athletes also ran faster than the record of 1:53.28. That is a total of 733 amateurs in the US alone that beat the fastest women's time ever.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

To put it i perspective 150 HS boys ran faster than the women's world record in the 800 this year. 447 D1, 80 D2 and 56 D3 NCAA athletes also ran faster than the record of 1:53.28. That is a total of 733 amateurs in the US alone that beat the fastest women's time ever.

I added a couple of bold edits to make your point more obvious.

There is a reason we have sporting categories. Men and women aren't equal in ability, though we should have equal rights.

But if the NPR interviewer really wants to put it to a test, no more women's categories in T&F, no more hitting from the front tees in golf, no WNBA-only NBA. Women in sports would cease to exist. Such a stupid controversy.