Tennis: Tarvet won 115,000 euros in Wimbledon but cannot withdraw them

The moment in which he puts down the point that definitively chases the Swiss Reciadi, Oliver Tarvet’s mind welcomes a vessel of thoughts from multiple response quiz. Pride: the British is the player enrolled in the Wimbledon scoreboard with the lowest singular ranking. Yet he won him. Priority: an inevitable embrace to the Bordocampi family. FANTASTICIERI: Wednesday Carlos Alcaraz awaits him, however it will go will be a success. It is a regret as big as a check of 99 thousand pounds, about 115 thousand euros: what a pity to earn the field so much money and not to be able to collect them …

99,000 award pounds

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Ribbon tape. The 2003 class has overcome the rounds of qualifying and sent to the Atmane house, Galarneau and Blockx. Suddenly, from number 733 (seventeenth centuries), Oliver finds himself in the main Wimbledon scoreboard. Which is not a prohibitive trip, considering that Tarvet comes from Hertfordshire: about eighty minutes by car. If you add an hour, find the journey time of his first round in the English Slam: triple 6-4 to be right of re-senses, also from the qualifying scoreboard. Tarvet laughs it, the next crossing puts the chills: “The possibility of finding Carlos Alcaraz in the second round? Simply a dream that comes true”. Then at the conference someone finally launches the hot potato: “Yeah, but what do you think about the Prize Money?”. Oliver is assiduous visitor to the University of San Diego in California: for American laws, tennis players enrolled in the NCAA university circuit – and therefore not yet professionals – cannot collect a prize of more than 7,300 pounds. A not indifferent scratca: Wimbledon’s second round guarantees 99 thousand.

Not for money

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At the conference then the curiosities are triggered. Tarvet does not pull back: “I worked hard to get this money. I don’t think they are undeserved. Maybe it would take a change in the NCAA regulation, but at the same time I don’t want to be involved: it’s not my field”. Yes, it is definitely better with lines and corridors: in the live Ranking Oliver has landed in arrogance among the first 400 in the world, and on the horizon there is the Supersfida with Alcaraz: “That is my dream. I am not here for the money, but only for the public and the experience, trying to leave the mark”.

come shelton?

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The question of the game prizes, however, is destined to recur. The game currently applies to the candle: the only way for Tarvet to collect the prize money above 7,300 pounds would be to accept to become a professional, closing the university experience. Do NCAA rules hinder or favor the formation of great sportsmen in the United States? Ben Shelton also asked for it three years ago: the American left -handed was still part of the Florida tennis team in 2022 on the eve of the US Open. And he too had given up on appetizing prizes like those who derive from an eighth final in Cincinnati (winning moreover against a top 10 like Rudud). At that point, Shelton chose to leave the university circuit and become a professional. Who knows that Tarvet does not take a cue.