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Tennis anyone?

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Jimjamesak said:
And now he's the only American left as Pegula lost.

Though I do not weep for the child of a New York billionaire.
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I’ve got a ton of respect for her. She could have a comfortable, easy life but instead is out there grinding. It takes a ton of work to get to where she is.

Tiafoe doesn’t have the talent Alcaraz does but should have a good chance after Alcaraz’s match last night. Hopefully Alcaraz is out of gas and Tiafoe makes the final. Ruud is probably the favorite right now.
 
Drew S. said:
I’ve got a ton of respect for her. She could have a comfortable, easy life but instead is out there grinding. It takes a ton of work to get to where she is.

Tiafoe doesn’t have the talent Alcaraz does but should have a good chance after Alcaraz’s match last night. Hopefully Alcaraz is out of gas and Tiafoe makes the final. Ruud is probably the favorite right now.
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Lol, it’s not as if she is out in the fields picking your meal. It’s a game. To be able to just choose it and get the best coaching because daddy isn’t that awesome.

for some, it’s reason to root against them.
 
MichVandal said:
Lol, it’s not as if she is out in the fields picking your meal. It’s a game. To be able to just choose it and get the best coaching because daddy isn’t that awesome.

for some, it’s reason to root against them.
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It helps up to a point, but to get to the level she is at there are no shortcuts. The people who think the money is the reason she’s there don’t understand tennis.
 
MichVandal said:
Lol, it’s not as if she is out in the fields picking your meal. It’s a game. To be able to just choose it and get the best coaching because daddy isn’t that awesome.

for some, it’s reason to root against them.
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She gets hurt, she still never has to work. That’s the difference to me.

also fuck her family
 
Drew S. said:
It helps up to a point, but to get to the level she is at there are no shortcuts. The people who think the money is the reason she’s there don’t understand tennis.
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Sorry, that doesn't help- dad can afford the best team to support her, and the biggest one as well. Money may not be the reason she plays, but it's a gross majority of the reason she is there. I'd rather admire players who didn't have the step up to get the help when they were younger.

While the F1 group may look at Latifi as an example, a better one is actually Verstappen- who's dad was able to put him into F1 at an incredibly young age. And compare that with Lewis Hamilton who's dad worked extra jobs so that he could afford the second hand karts for his kid to race with.

If you want to admire the kid of a uuber rich dude- go for it. But she literally had nothing to risk by going down this path- as there was (and is) a massive financial back up. Compared with Tafoe, who has no back up- tennis changed the path of the entire family.
 
MichVandal said:
Sorry, that doesn't help- dad can afford the best team to support her, and the biggest one as well. Money may not be the reason she plays, but it's a gross majority of the reason she is there. I'd rather admire players who didn't have the step up to get the help when they were younger.

While the F1 group may look at Latifi as an example, a better one is actually Verstappen- who's dad was able to put him into F1 at an incredibly young age. And compare that with Lewis Hamilton who's dad worked extra jobs so that he could afford the second hand karts for his kid to race with.

If you want to admire the kid of a uuber rich dude- go for it. But she literally had nothing to risk by going down this path- as there was (and is) a massive financial back up. Compared with Tafoe, who has no back up- tennis changed the path of the entire family.
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This just isn’t true at all. Maybe it helps you get to say top 1000 or something like that, but to get to top 10 it takes a hell of a lot of work. Her life would be much easier if she didn’t play, but she has put the work in and really made something of herself.
 
Drew S. said:
This just isn’t true at all. Maybe it helps you get to say top 1000 or something like that, but to get to top 10 it takes a hell of a lot of work. Her life would be much easier if she didn’t play, but she has put the work in and really made something of herself.
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What do you mean it's not true? She can easily decide to go for it because there is literally zero financial risk if she fails. It's a whole lot easier to commit to that when there's no risk.

And at that point EVERY SINGLE PERSON works as hard as everyone else. So to admire someone to work just as hard as the person across the net makes no sense.

Let alone the financial advantage to have the best of the best team to work with her.

Unless she chooses to go pick veggies for her life, I had not admiration for someone to choose to play a game for a living because they can. It makes absolutely no sense to be a fan because a rich person decided to play a game that takes effort.

To me (and seemingly most here) it's more admirable to actually have risk in your life when you choose to play a game that takes effort to survive in. That's exactly why Venus and Serena's stories are so much more special.

You can't ever convince me that Peluga has had to work anywhere near the Williams sisters to get where she is. Or anywhere near Tiafoe.
 
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