A tennis player's income depends solely on his sporting results. In the event of injury, the daily life of those far from the Top 100 can become extremely complicated.
Exhausted but omnipresent stars, ever-longer tournaments and exhibitions that have become a business in their own right: tennis is revealing its deepest contradictions, torn between spectacle and physical survival.
This is a decision that is making a lot of noise in the French tennis world: the FFT has been ordered to pay €850,000 to its former DTN, Nicolas Escudé. A case that highlights internal tensions and the federation's controversial choices.