Yuan Meng<\/a>, saying she need financial help, that they are sleeping on the floor at the hotel, etc.\u00a0 (Doesn’t US hotels all equipped with either king size or 2 twins???\u00a0 Does it cost less if you forgo bed?)\u00a0 According to Tony, the top 50 ranked players could make a comfortable living (it’s crucial that you’re able to remain at that level week in and week out), within 100 is no.\u00a0 Yuan’s highest rank was 92, and brief.\u00a0 He also mentioned that there are few tourneys held in Asia, mostly in US and Europe, hence it’s very expensive (travel expenses, jet-lag – earlier arrivals..)\u00a0for the Chinese to break into the top rank.\u00a0 For their European peers, all they have to do was get into a car and drive there. Also marketing in China is not as mature as in the USA.\u00a0 Could all those obstacles be over come should the athlete has the talent, mental toughness\u00a0plus gorgeous look, plus a savvy manager?\u00a0
\nLisa Raymond has turned pro in 1993, over the years, she has made $7m in prize money.\u00a0 I like her, but not many people know who she is, even she briefly held the\u00a0#1 ranking\u00a0back in 2000.\u00a0 Doubtfully she signed any lucrative endorsement deals that offered to Anna and Michelle.\u00a0 In any event, I’ll sponsor Yuan, questions aside.<\/p>\n.. .. Oh,\u00a0their cute names.\u00a0 Yuan Meng, Yan Zi .. etc. Tony laughed.
\n“Most of them changed their names once you gain a little fame, you pick a new name. A common practice in China.”\u00a0 Just learned one more thing.\u00a0 He went on to say – actually I wondered myself – “most those athletes are from poor and under-educated families .. the rich kids don’t want, don’t have\u00a0to sweat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anna K has long retired comfortably from tennis without winning a single title.\u00a0 Her career was so short, I didn’t even have a chance to practice her last name,\u00a0Kournikova.\u00a0 When I goggle her on the net, all I have to do was type in Anna K.\u00a0 I got my girl.\u00a0 There is also\u00a0a Michelle, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}