'Huge money with little effort'
Rosset launches attack on women's tennis
Posted: Friday November 13, 1998 03:29 PM
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Rosset: "Until the women can compete with the men I will continue to call them weak" Clive Brunskill/Allsport |
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Marc Rosset strolled to a simple straight sets victory in the quarterfinal of the Kremlin Cup on Friday before launching an attack on women's tennis.
After beating Slovak qualifier Jan Kroslak 6-2 6-4 in 49 minutes the Swiss player said: "Apart from four or five female players, the rest of women are not in good shape.
"And if you take the best women players, they put on nice dresses or have plenty of time during the day to do nothing because women's tennis is really weak.
"But if you look at the men, Pete Sampras, for example, wouldn't have time to go shopping or sightseeing if he wants to stay number one," he said.
"This is why I think women's tennis is not that tough. They make huge money with little effort."
Rosset said that women are striving for equality in tennis but that the men's game is far superior.
"I remember that during the Australian Open the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] said that they would choose any male player ranked between 200 and 250 and they would beat him easy.
"They chose a guy named Karsten Braasch, who was ranked 200, and he beat them easy, something like 6-1 6-1 -- and he is the only guy on the tour who smokes cigarettes before he steps on the court.
"Until the women can compete with the men I will continue to call them weak."
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