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I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.

It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.