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i dont agee with that as they need money to get by and if theyre working fulltime no time to train surely?
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which constitutes the US American challenger and ITF tournaments
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you shouldn't make a great living off challengers/itf's but at least raise it with inflation/cost of living, it's been static for years
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they should make enough to be comfortable
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not saying 100000s obviously
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Let's take this Nanchang $125k anyway. This is like as high as prize money goes at challenger level even on ATP.
Winner - $20k Final - $11k SF - $6k QF - $4k R2 - $2k R1 - $1050 Then you have challengers like Oberstaufen. Winner - 5035 euros F - 2975 euros SF - 1760 euros QF - 1020 euros R2 - 600 euros R1 - 365 euros Not making a lot of money if you go out in the early rounds of the latter. |
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Dustin Brown was sooooooooooooo poor, his parents bought him one of those really VW Buses and he traveled with it from tournament to tournament on continental Europe. Might've slept in it too.
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*one of those really old VW buses
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the best players will get out of that level pretty quickly anyway
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this stuff is why the story of Estrella is so great
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or Lorenzi
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slugging it out on futures and challenger level for 15 years before finally making the top100
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if SIG had his way they would have retired 10years ago
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Yer. The biggest thing is what you say SabineIsGOAT. It needs to be a way that you don't need a lot of money to start to come up the ranks.
Not everyone is a super talent. But say I have prospects for top 20-30, sponsors might not have jumped to my support, if you don't have parents with high disposable income you are going to struggle to fund yourself for maybe 5 years rising up the ranks (from the very bottom lets say). |
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It's especially true now that it's becoming harder and harder for youngsters to break through.
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That's why the college way keeps being a very attractive option for tennis players
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If I am not breaking top 100 to 22-23, what am I meant to be doing from 18 to 22-23.
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you're on a scholarship, earn yourself a degree, hone your tennis skill, get to evaluate your level at about 22, maybe give it a go and if you are not good enough after all or don't like life on tour you have that degree to fall back on (albeit most tennis players graduating in something that will have given them enough time to still focus on tennis)
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Go look up what say Roberto Bautista-Agut was making before this year.
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or become a local tennis coach
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Like, not too long and Julia Cohen will work in a team with with smb. Him being the strength & conditioning coach, Cohen being the nutritionist.
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'cuz she clearly ain't good enough to cut it at playing big babe tennis
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your mum is a big babe
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Probably worse examples, at least when he was still down at futures level making no money tons of the tournaments were in Spain so would be alot less money going on travel expenses
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me mum lost 25 pounds last year ffs. Don't make her go into fatshaming again. It's a progress.
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Surely they are worth something.
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Bautista-Agut is 26 years old, and now ranked world number 26. Probably didn't have a lot of hype about him. He's made $1.98m in his career, $984k was this year.
2014 - $984k 2013 - $490k 2012 - $171k 2011 - $63k 2010 - $77k 2009 - $32k 2008 - $12.8k 2007 - $10.5k 2006 - $2k 2005 - $2.9k 2004 - $787 He probably wasn't even making money until he was 24. And being Spanish he has it one of the better ways, as Spain has a lot of lower tournaments for him to play. What if you have a player like that from a country without the tournament and financial support? |
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nah
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He is world number 16 rather.
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Not world number 26.
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chmpionship point big john
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Can't compare the tennis players, who often come at least from a good middle-class background with some education in mind, to some of the quite probably proper dumb kids who play e.g american football either I think. Even if neither group will pick up engineering degrees.
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engineering is for mugs
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Not all of them is that true for though Edy.
Plus for every Sharapova super success where her dad moved to USA and worked jobs to make ends meet, there must be failed versions of that story that we never hear off. Then what you have a child who for all intents and purposes has no qualifications. |
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Azarenka was financed by a Belarussian NHL player financing her to move to USA.
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