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By Martin Johnson The equal prize-money debate goes on, but the All England Club have almost got it right in rewarding this year's respective singles champions with £750,000 each. The only minor distinction they should have made was to ink in that figure on the men's cheque in British pounds, and the girls' in Polish zlotys. At the least the men know they need to be full-time professionals to have a decent shot at winning. The top women are so useless that the Williams sisters spend more time attending to their latest clothing lines and interior design consultancies than playing tournaments, and yet they still manage - in between fashion shoots for Vogue magazine - to pop over and win Wimbledon. Venus, who won last year's event as the 27th seed, was the prime mover in the equal prizes campaign, claiming that interest in the... [read full story]
