ATP and WTA over the past 10 years

[zvelf]

This poll is in response to Thundervolley's insistence that the past ten years of the WTA tour has been far better than the past 10 years on the ATP tour. I want to get a measure of which tour this forum prefers to watch between the two. My purpose is not to put one tour or the other down. I prefer the WTA to the ATP in different periods and prefer the ATP to the WTA in others. I don't even think one should be forced to choose as I have always watched both equally, which is not to say one is not more entertaining than the other at different times, and this latter point is what I'm looking for forum input on. This is not about whether men's or women's tennis is superior but rather about the players of this era and their rivalries, so please keep sexist comments to oneself.

 

[ChaelAZ]

I don't think it is 10 years as a whole personally. As much as I love Fed and Nadal, there was a time, even to now that I kinda get bored with it on the ATP side. But also, I am sooooo not a Serena fan, so as much as I have loved the level and over all play of the WTA, I never watched finals and such with Serena ball bashing people off court.

Watchable? Both have had their pro's and con's for me. I like both personally.

 

[VaporDude95]

The most boring men’s match > the most boring women’s match

That’s all from me

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

The ideal state of the tour, both in the men's and the women's game, is a good balance between rivalries at the very top, rivalries between the top players and the second tier, and a healthy distribution of Slams between elite players, all-time greats, second-tier players and surface specialists.
I think this happened for the men in the 90's and for the women in the early 2000's, and are thus my favourite eras in tennis.

Currently, I think the big 3 are an anomaly and have accumulated too many wins (and have therefore given a shiny exterior look to what is in fact a ruinous state of affairs), and I don't believe the tour is great "because of them" and terrible "because of those who can't challenge them".
I think both things are intimately related, and ultimately bad for the game.

As for the women, the problem has been consistency and a concentration - way beyond what should be reasonable - of major titles in a single player who wasn't even playing full time for years now.
The rest of the tour has underperformed in very much the same way as the men's tour, it's just that in the men's game there are 3 players who win everything, and in the WTA (with Serena's decline) we're seeing today what could possibly happen in the ATP when the big 3 eventually retire.

 

[Raining hopes]

2009,2011-12 ATP >> Anything on WTA in my time of watching.