Hello, everyone. Welcome to another week of served. Welcome, if you're watching on T2. Welcome. If you're watching it a little bit later on YouTube and or listening or watching on audio on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast.

Listen, when we started this podcast, I think one of the goals was one, is there a place

in tennis that's not centered around live events where you can take some info, get some

analysis on like any Tuesday, right?

Obviously, the content kind of takes care of itself when we

are in orbit around a major event like a Roland Garros. Those are awesome. My jaw drops whenever I

see how well these players operate nowadays. Where I have fun is trying to think of ideas based on your feedback, based on an original

thought, however it may come together, of giving fans a little bit of a peek behind the curtain.

We've done that in the past with Max Eisenbud and others, who, by the way, is going to

lend his knowledge coming up shortly. The basis of this episode

is basically finances, money, and tennis. A player's journey from the time they are

potentially first recruited, some phenoms from the age of eight-year-old on to becoming a

pro, becoming a little known. You're a starving artist, then you get good.

You win some tournaments, not so starving.

Then it becomes basically just a spoil of riches.

If you kind of enter the stratosphere of number one of the world, Grand Slam champion,

then you become a global name.

So basically trying to just walk you through the players in your orbit, the finances,

how they change, different revenue streams, and how they are adjusted over time based on market,

all these other things.

One of the blind spots for me was this first kind of portion of when you're a junior and you're a

phenom. I was a junior. I was not a phenom. I got better a little bit later in life. So I said,

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