EQUAL PAY AT WIMBLEDON

In a world where women still earn 70 cents for every dollar that men earn for equal job, and sometimes not even that amount, Wimbledon has become the last Grand Slam Tournament to adopt equal pay policy for men and women.
Thanks to the job of amazing players on and off the court such as Billy Jean King, who has relentlessly advocated for women players' rights.
Most male players agreed it was only fair for women to be pay through all rounds at this year's tournament an equal amount that men.
It was interesting to hear Novak Djokovic - the Serb player, argued that women don't have to play five sets as men do and for that reason they shouldn't be paid the same amount.
This was for many years an argument that even officials from different tournaments used as an excuse not to pay female competitors as much as they pay men.
An argument they always forgot was that women are by nature smaller than men, and have to play and cover the same surface as men -often time and a half their weight, and many inches taller.
It makes only sense that women would have to play less sets in order to compensate for being exposed to play in a court made and fit for men players.
What's interesting is facts like this one have been always overlooked.
Whatever the rationale behind for -finally, granting women players equal pay, it was only about time. This is the 21st Century.