"You're not earning a lot just for being a tennis player" - Ramos speaks about career

32-years-old Albert Ramos-Vinolas is one of the oldest guys on the ATP Tour and now he spoke to ATP Tour about his long career.

Ramos Vinolas turned pro already in 2007. Then, he managed to win 7 Challenger titles but still waited for his first ATP title. That one came in Bastad in 2016. One year later, he reached 17th place in the ATP Ranking what is his career-high. However, then there were 2 years when he was not so successful and he spoke also about it to ATPTour.com.

“I didn’t think anything, I just was playing. I was playing, playing, playing and somehow I’m here, I didn’t feel it at any point that I was going to be a professional.”

“For sure there are a lot of moments I think that it’s really tough, but I feel like I’m really lucky to be here and to do one thing I was doing all my life. I think I’m pretty lucky to do something that I like a lot,” Ramos-Vinolas said.

“We had two years when the results were not really good. I was lucky there that I had my coach and also my family, my wife, they told me to finish school and also start the university. I started to study a little bit in university, but online,” said Ramos-Vinolas, who studied business administration. “It helped me to have less pressure on the tennis and not to think just in tennis. It started to get better and better and then I stopped [studying] because it was a lot. To mix two things, it helped me a lot.

“If you just play tennis and you are No. 400 and you try to be better, but you are not earning a lot to just be a tennis player. You have to try another thing… I think it helped me a lot because if you don’t think just on one thing, you know that you have another thing [in your life], you can play much more relaxed and much better.”

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