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**glagoliska** · 03-16-2009, 09:32 PM

There's always interesting stories from the young women players performing upsets (e.g., Suarez-Navarro at the Australian, all the young women here), even Alexa Glatch to some extent - would have been really nice to see her over the weekend given she's been MIA for so long. But believe the point was made I guess a couple of US Open's ago - when they had to have the Williams sisters on back to back nights even if it screwed up the draw/order of play - they think no one wants to see other women in prime-time if their names aren't Williams or Sharapova. Whether it's true or not, that's pretty sad to me - and agree, a very poor marketing job by the WTA tour.

03-16-2009, 09:32 PM	#15
glagoliska Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 372 Senior Member	There's always interesting stories from the young women players performing upsets (e.g., Suarez-Navarro at the Australian, all the young women here), even Alexa Glatch to some extent - would have been really nice to see her over the weekend given she's been MIA for so long. But believe the point was made I guess a couple of US Open's ago - when they had to have the Williams sisters on back to back nights even if it screwed up the draw/order of play - they think no one wants to see other women in prime-time if their names aren't Williams or Sharapova. Whether it's true or not, that's pretty sad to me - and agree, a very poor marketing job by the WTA tour.
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