Tennis is a really expensive sport. If you’re exceptional then you’ll get funding but if not then you need money.brilo33 wrote: ↑27 Oct 2021, 19:55of course mate who does , but they domickey1975 wrote: ↑27 Oct 2021, 19:54 Yes, I never knew anyone play in a league or anything. Just in the street.
There aren’t many places where it’s free to play in parks but you then needs racquets and balls.
If you want to play properly then you need to join a club. I was paying £70 a year as a kid which is pretty cheap. Group coaching cost £4 an hour, £18 an hour for 1on1 coaching, £15 every time you break a string, at least £120 for a new racquet if needed, paying to get to/enter tournaments. I started playing for my county at 14/15 so it was 70 mile round trip for that every week. It’s not like it is for boxing where you may have several kids fighting at the same place so can take a mini bus or load a car up.
To get any better than fairly good then it’s more expensive. One of my mates is now a head coach at a US university. He paid (his wealthy dad paid) for hitting sessions each morning before school where he literally paid a guy better than him £15/hour just to rally with him, he had at least 6 hours of 1-2-1 coaching at £24/hour and then paid for the other stuff on top of that.
It’s the most elitist mainstream sport I’d say.