Young tennis professionals chase sporting dream
The men's winner at the Australian Open tennis championship this weekend will pocket a cool $2.65m Australian dollars (£1.4m; $2.3m).
For the top players tennis is a lucrative sport, but at the lower end of the ladder your young up-and-coming professional has a very different existence.
It is a world of parental help, shared digs, budget flights, and frugal lifestyles.
The BBC visits the tennis academy at the University of Bath in south-west England to see the sporting and financial challenges involved.
Jonathan Legard reports.
24 Jan 2014
- From the section Business