Oh I say! She's wearing red knickers

We try to keep out the sexism in covering tennis, but sometimes it's difficult to get everything quite as balanced as we'd like

Wimbledon once more. Some sun and strawberries and some Guardian readers who believe that the way the newspaper sometimes portrays women players could do with coaching into a less sexist presentation. One reader said that an article about a game in the French Open, headlined Sharapova hangs tough again to earn title showdown with Halep, 6 June 2014, was "sexist and over sexualised".

These are the two paragraphs to which she was objecting: "At first, the patrons of a packed Court Philippe Chatrier were not sure which of the two ladies in pink might win their affection on this blessedly sunny day. Would they remain faithful to their old flame, Maria Sharapova, or did the charms of the younger Eugenie Bouchard hold more long-term promise? At the end of this very public ménage à trois, they went with the Russian, rising to acclaim a 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 win that takes her into Saturday's final of the French Open against Simona Halep. The gifted little Romanian, the No 4 seed, beat Andrea Petkovic, 6-2, 7-6 in the second semi-final in front of a paltry audience after the theatre that had gone before."

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