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The Indian tennis participant Sumit Nagal, in an interview with Instances of India, informed a surprising reality, which makes us mirror on the state of tennis gamers past the top-100, and due to this fact sending a transparent message to ATP. The tennis participant defined how tough it’s to stay on present earnings: “If I have a look at my financial institution stability, I’ve what I had firstly of the yr, round 900 euros.
I bought assist. I get assist from a tennis basis and I additionally get a month-to-month wage from IOCL, a gasoline firm, however I haven’t got any huge sponsors.”
Nagal, quantity 159 on the planet rating, then mentioned: “I make investments all the things I earn.
I solely journey with an athletic coach, and not using a physiotherapist, and I’ve already invested all the things I earn. I really feel like I lack assist regardless of being the most effective Indian athlete for years. I’m the one one to qualify for the Grand Slam tournaments, the one one who managed to win a match on the Olympic Video games.”
Nagal shock: “I’ve 900 euros within the financial institution, it is onerous
Sumit then added: “When my rating bought worse, nobody wished to assist me, nobody believed that I might come again.
It was disappointing as a result of I really feel that it doesn’t matter what I do, it is by no means sufficient. It’s extremely tough to search out monetary assist in India. I actually do not even know what to do, I just about gave up.”
Then he concluded, speaking about his damage and return to the tour: “The rehabilitation took me 6 months, then the return one other six.
I might say it took me a yr and a half to really feel good. I misplaced some matches that I ought to have gained .
I bought Covid twice final season, so it has been an extended two years. I’ve no financial savings, I can not say I stay a superb life. No less than I am not damaging.
I am not saying I wish to go to five star inns or something like that. We lack funds, a system. China has cash and we’ve got the identical potential as China.”
