Wimbledon exposed the sexism women face – as players and girlfriends

Kim Sears watches her boyfriend Andy Murray playing at Wimbledon. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Hadley Freeman

 Tuesday 9 July 2013 

While Andy Murray may have rewritten the enduring British sports narrative of noble failures and humiliating disappointment in the space of three hours last Sunday, some things, it seems, will take longer than 77 years to change.

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