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Win at All Costs or Lose Gracefully in High-Stakes Competition? Gender Differences in Professional Tennis
Anbarci, N.; Lee, J.; Ulker, A.
Authors
J. Lee
A. Ulker
Abstract
This article examines line-call challenges by male and female professional tennis players in major tournaments around the world. In terms of utilization rates, we find that the genders behave similarly. Nevertheless, we do detect some intriguing gender differences in these challenges. First, male players’ challenges are more likely to be provoked by those of their opponents. More importantly, at tiebreaks, females are more likely to reverse an umpire’s unfavorable call, while males make relatively more unsuccessful challenges. Furthermore, we find that men are a lot more likely to make “embarrassing” line-call challenges at tiebreaks and offenses (i.e., when the shot lands at the opponent’s side of the tennis court) than women. These significant gender differences suggest that women particularly diverge from men at crucial junctures of the match such as tiebreaks. Differences in factors such as risk aversion, overconfidence, pride, shame, and strategic signalling behavior might help us to explain these gender-difference findings in line call challenges.
Citation
Anbarci, N., Lee, J., & Ulker, A. (2014). Win at All Costs or Lose Gracefully in High-Stakes Competition? Gender Differences in Professional Tennis. Journal of Sports Economics, 17(4), 323-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002514531788
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | May 13, 2014 |
Publication Date | May 13, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Aug 16, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Journal of Sports Economics |
Print ISSN | 1527-0025 |
Electronic ISSN | 1552-7794 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 323-353 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002514531788 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1323052 |
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Anbarci, N., Lee, J. & Ulker, A. (2016). Win at All Costs or Lose Gracefully in High-Stakes Competition? Gender Differences in Professional Tennis. Journal of Sports Economics 17(4): 323-353. Copyright © 2014 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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