I agree that the gap between females and males is smaller in tennis than it is in basketball, but it is still quite significant. Serena Williams is on the level of a good but not great college tennis player. Anybody playing in the NCAA finals singles draw destroys her.

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Posted by SECdragonmaster

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Posted on 5/24/19 at 2:37 pm to MidnightVibe

Story from USA Today about Venus and Serena Williams and their match against a out of shape male player in his 30’s that was ranked in the 200’s.

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So they marched themselves into the men’s ATP office to announce rather confidently they were ready to beat any tour player ranked around the Top 200 if someone wanted to take the challenge. It just so happened that Karsten Braasch of Germany, once a top-40 player, but at the time ranked 203rd, was in ear shot. He thought it would be fun so stepped up to say he’d be happy to take them on.

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The date was set and the day arrived. Braasch played a warmup round of golf in the morning, then came to Melbourne Park. The threesome went out to a back court where each sister would have a one-set shot at Braasch. Word had spread around the grounds that the event wsa taking place, which caused tournament officials to restrict admittance to the area to only those with badges. Braasch would smoke cigarettes and sip beer during the changeovers, and to be honest no longer looked the part of a fit professional athlete. It made no matter. Braasch led 5-0 over Serena before winning the set 6-1, and then posted a 6-2 set victory over Venus.

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