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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments

Evidence From Professional Tennis Data

Thierry Lallemand

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Robert Plasman

Université Libre de Bruxelles

François Rycx

Université Libre de Bruxelles

This article examines how professional female tennis players react to (a) prize incentives and (b) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further results indicate that uneven contests lead favorites to win more games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential among players increases with the ranking differential. These findings suggest that the outcome of a match is more linked to players' abilities than to players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances.

Key Words: tennis • tournaments • incentives • performance • women

This version was published on February 1, 2008

Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, 3-19 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1527002506296552
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