A skirmish between the sexes was brewing at Wimbledon last night as French players Gilles Simon and Marion Bartoli took issue over whether there should be equal prize money for men and women at SW19.
Simon, the 13th seed, and newly elected member of the ATP players' council, lit the touchpaper ahead of his delayed second round meeting with Xavier Malisse today when he used the fact that "male players spent twice as long on court at Roland Garros" to justify a claim that men deserve a larger share of the pot.
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