Equal Pay - Why The Fuss?
Tennis has been in the news a lot this year and we are still in March. It started at the Australian Open when the BBC and BuzzFeed made reports of match fixing which had been taking place over a number of years. That was already well known but it was suggested that the Tennis Integrity Unit had not been taking the accusations seriously enough, did not investigate properly and the unit was too small to be effective, mainly comprising of a few part time senior ex policeman. ATP Chief Chris Kermoode refuted this claim and promised robust actions. However, in the last week, the Italian Authorities claim they have evidence of top 20 tennis players being involved in match fixing and accused the tennis authorities of not doing enough to bring these players to justice. If that was not bad enough, Maria Sharapova announced to the world not her retirement which some journalists had predicted, but that she failed a drug test for meldonium which was...