This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and …

This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and …

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff … women's tour. These results prevail throughout a series of extensions and robustness checks, highlighting gender differences … a market imperfection and further confirming our suspicion of irregular activities in men's tennis. …

Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to … receiving negative feedback. The gender differential is stronger in high stakes matches. On the other hand, when players are … tied in the third set we do not find any gender difference in players' reactions: this suggests that females do not tend to …