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But how do you think "men" and "open" categories would work together in a sport in which men have a significant advantage? If you let people enter both then the
by bloak 4y ago
But how do you think "men" and "open" categories would work together in a sport in which men have a significant advantage? If you let people enter both then they could end up being boringly similar to each other, while neither of them generates the excitement of being the main competition, and if you force people to choose one or the other then you might end up with a weird situation in which the best two players agree to avoid each other and other players choose ... how exactly?
So I would guess that having two categories, "open" and "bona fide female", would make more sense.
Also, in tennis, do you call the "open" category "open" or is that too confusing as the word "open" is already used in a different sense?
- leephillips 4y agoI guess these are some of the issues that the committee examining the possibility of an open category are considering. I would think it makes most sense to require people to choose, and not compete in both the open and one of the sex categories. Whether people get excited about the “open” competition is up to them. I think it’s pretty easy to predict that it will be populated by men like Lia Thomas who don’t want to compete in the men’s competition, and there won’t be many people who care about it.