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Why aren't there more women coaches?

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

One of the last obvious gender inequities in tennis dissolved recently when the All England Club elected to give the same prize money to women as to men competing at Wimbledon. Yet one rather glaring difference between the men's and women's landscapes persists, and might be getting even more out of whack. Women don't coach women. Or more precisely, women don't coach top women on the WTA Tour, unless they're related to them. Men coach men, and they also coach women. ...

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