In tennis you can't make a living if you are outside of top 100 or 150. That is you don't eat if you don't have other sources of income. Even if you are a very

In tennis you can't make a living if you are outside of top 100 or 150. That is you don't eat if you don't have other sources of income. Even if you are a very good amateur player and you easily beat most fellow amateurs, you would get destroyed (6-0, 6-0) by an aspiring pro (top 1000 in the world) playing minor leagues (satellite tour), spending his own or other people's money to stay afloat. I've met many mediocre programmers making a nice, corporate paycheck, driving Audi TTs.