“[Being] No. 120 in the world and pocketing $40k, $50k at the end of that year is depressing,” tennis player Noah Rubin says. Here's mboncosky on the side of tennis that isn't discussed during the majors
as a 1-year-old. His parents bought a junior racket before Rubin was born and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in their son, who trained throughout his adolescence at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy in New York.
But Rubin isn’t O.K. with that, for himself or others. He wants to “beat the system” and create a better game for future generations. How? Well, as is often the case, at the center of the discussion is money.In 2014, Rubin defeated current world No. 12 Taylor Fritz en route to the Wimbledon boys singles title, ending a seven-year American drought at the competition.
Then, three months later at an ATP event in Houston, Rubin broke the scaphoid bone in his wrist after slipping on the clay surface. “That’s when I realized there are definitely some issues within this sport that are going to be tough to overcome,” Rubin says. Suddenly the money wasn’t coming in, his ranking dipped back into the 200s, and the shopping trips transformed into stretches of anxiety.
“The budgeting is off to begin with in many aspects,” Rubin says. “The sport as a whole is just not receiving enough revenue to make it worthwhile for everybody involved, and then the players lose out.” There are individuals or groups of people who help sponsor players during their careers. Some do it because they have a previous relationship with the player. Some treat it more as an investment so they can make money off the player down the road, and some just do it out of the kindness of their hearts.
Rubin won the boys’ singles title at Wimbledon in 2014, but made his only appearance in the men’s draw in 2019.Twenty-eight-year-old American Marcos Giron needed five years to reach the 150 mark. Since 2018–when he was as high as No. 447–Giron has steadily climbed the rankings to his current spot at No. 56.
Knowing he now had no choice but to take a nine-month rehab break, Giron reached out to Billy Martin, his college coach at UCLA, and asked whether he could come back to school to help the team. Martin obliged, and from January to May that year, Giron served as UCLA’s second assistant coach on a volunteer basis.
“Once you start doing better, you actually get a little more money, which then takes a little bit of financial pressure off, and you can travel with less worry and stress,” Giron says. He had already started Behind the Racquet in early 2019, a website and Instagram page featuring first-person essays from tennis players that highlight the realities of life on the road, financial anxieties and mental health struggles they face, and Rubin decided to shift more of his focus there.
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