lady9ball said:
So suppose men WERE allowed to play in the WPBA. What do you predict would happen?.
I will tell you what would happen, they would probably destroy the longest running and only fully successful tour in the history of the sport. As they have with all the other tours, with infighting and short sighted greed.
For every 1 woman that picks up a cue, there are probably several hundred men that do the same. Men will always dominate in skill because they dominate in numbers, by thousands.
There were 4 women in this event,
FOUR, out of how many men? This of course makes Jasmin's success, all the more impressive.
The biggest success of the WPBA has been to attract more and more women to the sport. The level of skill has steadily risen and yes some of the best players, can now pose a threat in an Open event. Still, to use this as an argument to allow men to play
in women's events is nonsense. The reason to have events sanctioned by gender, age and skill level is to help the sport grow, which they have. Still, people want to tear their own sport apart, this is what I mean by short sightedness. The focus should be, what is going to benefit our sport in the long run, not making a quick buck by preying on weaker opponents.
It has been established that there are Men's Events and then there are Open events. The US Open, is a men's only event, the UPA events are men's events. The WPBA stands for Women's Professional Billiards Association. So what is unclear here?
Also, many of you guys who think you could walk into a WPBA event and dominate seem to forget you would have to win a qualifier first. You would have to then go against all the other men who think the same thing. So even in your mythical world, you would be in the same boat you are now.