ATP: Pat Rafter – Motivation?

Patrick Rafter has achieved a great deal in his career – his motivation for this was a childhood marked by financial challenges.

The Australian drinking water – it seems to encourage honesty. Also and above all, when it comes to the motivations for choosing down under tennis as a source of income. First, non-representative intermediate state of an incomplete overall view: The coal must be right.

At the beginning, Bernard Tomic, who had been miserably bored in Wimbledon in his match against Mischa Zverev, said that he had taken home the prize money after the first-round defeat. After all, he does not want to fight for his endurance in a “normal” job.

Destanee Aiava, on the other hand, did not hold back when it came to answering the question of their main drive: of course, the money. This is refreshingly honest, but also somewhat sobering for a player who is just beginning her career. At the beginning of the 2017 season, Aiava was the first player born in this millennium to participate in a Grand Slam tournament, and in 2018 she will also be competing at the Australian Open – the current number 154 in the world’s qualifying tournament secured a place in the Melbourne main field.

Patrick Rafter doesn’t have to deal with such banalities for a long time. Twice, Rafter has succeeded in winning a Grand Slam tournament, raising more than 11 million US dollars in prize money. The major titles of 1997 and 1998 at the US Open are often forgotten – because the almost 45-year-old made history twice in Wimbledon. With defeats. 2001, unforgotten, in the Monday final against Goran Ivanisevic. And a year earlier, when Rafter Pete had to congratulate Sampras on his seventh and final victory on Church Road.

In contrast to the US magazine Sports Illustrated, however, Rafter now allowed what was his biggest impetus at a young age to permeate,”I grew up with debts and loans. So you just sit there and think, well, I’m trying to get out of all this,”said the Australian. For him, the greatest goal would have been to live with a family in his own house.

“However, if I had come from a rich family, I would not have felt this drive in tennis, but what he could have counted on as a teenager: the unrestricted support and plenty of time from his parents. Sometimes you come home and your brothers let you know that you are acting like a big puke. But that was part of the whole thing. “If you carry your nose too high, you’ll be brought back down.”

Australia’s current number one, Nick Kyrgios, is also known for his relentless openness. Kyrgios, however, does not usually emphasize the pekiunary aspect so much – he prefers to ponder in public about whether his decision in favour of tennis and against basketball was the right one. Honest words, as usual from Australia.