For most players, it is simple: more winnings means more support. <\/p>\n
Britain’s Toby Samuel earned \u00a375,000 in Paris after coming through qualifying to reach a Grand Slam main draw for the first time. That is enough to fund the rest of his season.<\/p>\n
“These events are where you make real money that can boost your career and pay for your team,” Samuel said.<\/p>\n
“As you do better at Grand Slams and get more money, everything off the court becomes a bit easier and helps you on the court.”<\/p>\n
Hiring a coach on a full-time basis, alongside a physiotherapist or fitness trainer, makes up the bulk of outgoings.<\/p>\n
“It all costs a lot of money. I feel that a lot of people outside tennis don’t really understand that,” said Australia’s Rinky Hijikata, who remembers not eating proper meals to save cash.<\/p>\n
“To invest back into your own game takes a lot of money and effort.”<\/p>\n
Friedsam estimates that she needs to win about \u00a3300,000 a season to break even. <\/p>\n
If she does not bring in enough cash, she will go to the next tournament without a coach.<\/p>\n
The global nature of tennis means constant international travel, and for players coming from more remote areas, funding flights is even more difficult.<\/p>\n
Bolivia’s Juan Carlos Prado Angelo, who reached his first Grand Slam main draw at Roland Garros, says affording travel is “very difficult for every player” from South America.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old has an added complication. Coming from a country with a lack of tennis pedigree, he has had to go outside Bolivia to find the professional expertise he needs.<\/p>\n
“I live in Bolivia and all my team – except for my coach – are from Argentina,” Prado Angelo said.<\/p>\n
“I train half in Buenos Aires and half in Bolivia, so I have to pay to take them to Bolivia and then I need to travel to Argentina. It’s expensive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most players, it is simple: more winnings means more support. Britain’s Toby Samuel earned \u00a375,000 in Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-697913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}