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Roland Garros embroiled in sexism row after women’s semi-finals shift

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Updated: June 7th, 2019, 10:30 IST
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The semi-final between Ashleigh Barty and Amanda Anisimova will be played on Court Suzanne Lenglen while Johanna Konta's match with Marketa Vondrousova has been shifted to the smaller 5,000-seater Court Simonne-Mathieu.

The semi-final between Ashleigh Barty and Amanda Anisimova will be played on Court Suzanne Lenglen while Johanna Konta's match with Marketa Vondrousova has been shifted to the smaller 5,000-seater Court Simonne-Mathieu.

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Paris: The French Open was plunged into a sexism row Thursday after the decision to move the women’s semi-finals away from the tournament’s showpiece court was blasted as ‘unfair, inappropriate’ and ‘shameful’.

After torrential rain washed out all of Wednesday’s play, the last two women’s quarter-finals were played Thursday with the semi-finals pushed back a day until Friday.

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However, the semi-final between Ashleigh Barty and Amanda Anisimova will be played on Court Suzanne Lenglen while Johanna Konta’s match with Marketa Vondrousova has been shifted to the smaller 5,000-seater Court Simonne-Mathieu.

The men’s semis between Roger Federer against Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic taking on Dominic Thiem will be played on the main, 15,000-seat Court Philippe Chatrier as planned.

“We are extremely disappointed by the scheduling of both women’s semi-finals on outside courts,” said WTA chief executive Steve Simon.

“The four women who have played so well and made it this far have earned their right to play on the biggest stage. We believe other solutions were possible which would have been to the benefit of fans as well as all players,” Simon added.

Both women’s semi-finals were originally scheduled for Thursday on the rebuilt Chatrier Court with the final Saturday.

Men’s semi-finals day is Friday and Sunday is the traditional day for their championship match.

But Wednesday’s washout, which also saw two men’s quarter-finals played a day late Thursday, caused havoc with the schedule.

Complicating the picture further is the threat of more rain Friday, raising the prospect of the women’s final being moved to Sunday and the men’s to Monday.

Tournament director Guy Forget had admitted that moving the women’s semi-finals to smaller courts could be seen as controversial.

“You’re afraid that some players might feel that it’s a lack of respect or we are just trying to diminish it — no,” he said. “Ideally, when you see historically what has happened in the tournament, we try to be fair to everyone.”

However, France’s former world No.1 and two-time major winner Amelie Mauresmo blasted the decision to shift the women’s semi-finals.

“It is shameful for our tournament,” tweeted the 49-year-old.

“Everyone agrees that the match of the day is Federer/Nadal,” she added. “But what message are we sending by taking the decision to put the two women’s semi-finals on at 11 a.m. on the second and third courts? No match on the centre court?”

Mauresmo believes that the men’s and women’s semi-finals should be be split between Chatrier and the 10,000-capacity Lenglen.

“It’s simple to open Lenglen and Chatrier and have the two women’s matches at 1 p.m. followed by the two men’s.” Anisimova, just 17, and the youngest player to reach a Grand Slam semi-final since Nicole Vaidisova at the 2007 Australian Open, said she had no objections to playing on a smaller court.

“Neither of them on Chatrier? I didn’t know that,” said the teenager when first told that she would not be playing on the main court.

“Actually, I’m really happy that I get to play tomorrow,” added the American, who is the first player born in the 2000s to get to the last-four of a major.

“I don’t have to wait a whole day, because I get really eager to want to go on the court, so I’m happy I get to play tomorrow. They are all beautiful courts,” she said.

Barty, the highest seed left in the tournament at number eight, said it was a shame that her maiden Slam semi-final had been shifted to Lenglen.

“Obviously we would love to play on Chatrier,” said the 23-year-old. “For me, personally, I’m excited to be in a semi-final. It doesn’t really matter which court I play on.”

“Yes, of course we would have loved to play on Chatrier. It’s a beautiful court. But in saying that, all four of us will be ready and prepared and go out there and enjoy it,” she added.

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