I thought for my amusement I would see how folks on this board sit in terms of their preferences of the different tours - what caught my interest was that when new entry lists go up, or dates come near, I have a perception of a lot more discussion and comment around which women are in the draw, near the cut, what their schedule might be. And on the other hand, there seem to be a lot more historic posts in the mens section.
So I was interested and thought I would do a poll and see!
Much prefer the WTA tour, both generally and in terms of British players. Just hope we can get a few more inside that top 100 and regular features in 250 type events.
Not sure when to call the result but it is 7-4 women's to men's and then 6 votes on some form of liking everything equally.
Which I think I sort of expected, I tend to think those preferring the women's side get into a lot more depth and statistical openness for want of a better phrase, not all but on the whole. I think forums like tennis forum versus men's tennis forum reflect that as well.
Good stuff, coming as a definite men's game preferrer!
-- Edited by JonH on Sunday 17th of March 2019 09:04:17 PM
This result actually surprises me. I thought the majority on here followed the men's tour.
I follow the women's tour most, but I thought that was just because I was a woman, and I don't normally have streaming, so it's mostly stats. I must admit I prefer to watch the men's game in most cases. I agree that there is more depth and hope for our future in the women's game than the mens at the moment. I was hopeful about jay, but nothing exiting seems to have happened there.
It would have been good to have the option of Men's ITF Tour - the good old fashioned Futures as they were called. In many ways, I follow that as much as the ATP Tour but as it wasn't an option, I selected ATP.
I think to be honest I meant men's tennis v women's tennis as a whole , and probably by mentioning atp and wta misled a little, but I guess generally it got the job done !
I put equally men's and women's tennis which I do think is the case all being equal.
Though at the moment there is overall I'd say more going on with our women. And because I collate British ATP rankings and WTA rankings ( and not ITF rankings* ) I guess that's another reason I am actually following our women more than our men for now.
* I do follow the threads and our results from ITF ranking level tournaments and am certainly interested in quite a number of the players but am certainly not going to spend additional time collating and projecting rankings from that tournament subsection. Trying not to have out of collation, out of mind.
-- Edited by indiana on Monday 18th of March 2019 02:40:29 AM
Not sure when to call the result but it is 7-4 women's to men's and then 6 votes on some form of liking everything equally.
Which I think I sort of expected, I tend to think those preferring the women's side get into a lot more depth and statistical openness for want of a better phrase, not all but on the whole. I think forums like tennis forum versus men's tennis forum reflect that as well.
Good stuff, coming as a definite men's game preferrer!
-- Edited by JonH on Sunday 17th of March 2019 09:04:17 PM
Certainly there does appear much more analysis of our women than our men from these tending more to the women's section. Some of our men players are perhaps fortunate that they don't receive the same level of analysis and ( sometimes debatable ) conclusions.
Tends to go a bit deeper than he's just a challenger player
Not sure when to call the result but it is 7-4 women's to men's and then 6 votes on some form of liking everything equally.
Which I think I sort of expected, I tend to think those preferring the women's side get into a lot more depth and statistical openness for want of a better phrase, not all but on the whole. I think forums like tennis forum versus men's tennis forum reflect that as well.
Good stuff, coming as a definite men's game preferrer!
-- Edited by JonH on Sunday 17th of March 2019 09:04:17 PM
Certainly there does appear much more analysis of our women than our men from these tending more to the women's section. Some of our men players are perhaps fortunate that they don't receive the same level of analysis and ( sometimes debatable ) conclusions.
Tends to go a bit deeper than he's just a challenger player
Interestingly, the poll has pretty much equalled itself up now, just one vote in it. Like many things, if you give it enough time, the initial loser can come up on the ropes and look relevant again