Former world number one Martina Navratilova, winner of 18 Grand Slam titles, believe that male players have more opportunities than the women in sport.
“Men still have more opportunities, more corporations are run by men, therefore they’re more ready to sponsor male athletes. here’s a double standard, there’s no doubt about it in my mind. It’s still hard for some to accept strong women,” Navratilova told BT Sport.
“With men, we’re so much quicker to accept their greatness. With women we doubt their greatness. I’ve seen it time and time again. It’s much easier for Roger Federer to be loved by everybody than for Serena Williams to be loved by everybody, just by the fact that he’s a guy. I don’t know how much of it has to do with Serena herself, how much of it has to do with the fact she’s African American and how much of it is that she’s a woman. In some ways people are willing to give people the mantle of the greatest of all time and at the same time
they’re still not getting the respect they should be getting.”
