This will make it incredibly sinple [some bits sightly out but u'l get the jist]
Top 100 player [if in main draw; i dont think you get it for qualifying necessarily] - everything is done for you, everything is paid for you dont have to worry about anything.
Anyone else playing at even 75k challenger level must pay for - flights, accomodation, food, travel to and from tournament, entry fees, pay to take tehir caosh with them, racket re-stringing, physio treatemtn [only provided free of charge in USTA tournamnets, not in Europe], massages [again only free in USTA tournament - otherwise will cost you about a fiver].
Basically top players get paid more and get everything paid for them by other people.
Other get paid ten of thousands a year less [in many cases even up to millions of pounds] but have to pay for the simple things. Hene lots of people giving up.
Again as i said, some bits will be wrong, but genreally this is teh case [ie most of the time].
The one thing im not sure about is qualifying, if the players get the same treatment as the main draw players. Perhaps Eggy coudl clear that up?
Paul
