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.
Two WTA 1000 titles, a stunning entry into the top 5, then a slump: Mirra Andreeva is living a season of two faces. Nadia Petrova, a benevolent witness, offers a lucid and hopeful analysis of her young compatriot.