Dustin Brown counters Thiem statements: "Had my career cost me"
Dustin Brown has nothing to do with Dominic Thiem's criticism of the tennis aid funds. If the corona crisis had happened at the start of his career, the tennis self-made man would have cost him his career.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Apr 28, 2020, 11:46 am
Dominic Thiem had told the Kronen-Zeitung last week that especially in the lower regions of the world rankings there would be a lot of people "who don't subordinate everything to sport". He therefore does not see "why I should give such people money". Especially since he also came up on the Future Tour back then.
He would therefore prefer to pass money on to people or institutions who really need it. "I have no guarantee in any profession that I will make a lot of money with it at some point. No tennis player, not even the ones below, is fighting for survival. Nobody has to starve," said the world ranking third. After all, no one got anything from the top people either, everyone had to fight their way up.
A view that now met with contradiction. Dustin Brown, who once started his career via a camper, where he played the small tournaments to save costs and lodging, wrote on Twitter: "I started in 2004. I lived in a camper, survived from week to week with the money that I earned. If I lost in round 1 of a 10,000 tournament, there was $ 117.50 less tax, so I strung the rackets for other players for $ 5 a piece. " If the corona crisis had happened then, Brown said, "it would have cost my career."
Brown had made it into the top 100 for the first time in 2010, since then he has mostly ranked between 100 and 200. Brown's greatest success was when he beat Rafael Nadal in Wimbledon in the summer of 2015 , his highest position was number 64 he placed on 246.
Zverev: Top advice via WhatsApp group
Both the ATP, WTA and ITF are currently planning aid funds, and there is also a proposal by ATP Spierrat President Novak Djokovic , which provides for contributions by the better placed players to the worse ones - from $ 30,000 (from the top 5) to $ 5,000 -Dollar (places 51 to 100). Players between the 250th to the 700th place should receive $ 10,000 each.
"It is difficult to demand money from players, no matter what their position in the world rankings is," Zverev had told the football magazine kicker . The Top 50 would advise via WhatsApp group, here you usually follow the suggestions of the experienced players Djokovic, Nadal and Federer.