I met a professional tennis player over the weekend.\u00a0 He ranked number 120 in the world and he plays in open competitions.\u00a0 I thought with his ranking, he would get at least some sponsors.\u00a0 The reality is tennis is not a very well off professional sport.\u00a0 Other than his racket, T-shirts, shoes, bags, he does not get any sponsor’s money in his pocket.\u00a0 There are not much money in tennis.\u00a0 Individual sport’s pay out is not as good as team sport.\u00a0 Think about how much money number 120 hockey player or soccer player will make.\u00a0 Golf got the most sponsorship money among all the individual sports.\u00a0 The reason is the sponsors get to play golf with the professional players.\u00a0 Probably golf is the only game the armature can play with the professional at the same time, actually although they are in the golf course at the same time, they are really playing their own games.\u00a0 When I have kids, I will select carefully on what sport to train him on to maximize the return.\u00a0 Look at all the professional sports, probably baseball has the best return.\u00a0 Soccer or hockey player has to retire early, and tends to get lots of injuries, but baseball player can still stay in the field even they well into middle-age and have a big tummy.\u00a0 Look at how much an average professional tennis player makes, tennis training is not a very good investment on the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"