When she graduated, she made a deal with her father to pursue professional tennis. He agreed to provide financial support for three years.
“She said ‘Dad, you didn’t give me a dime for college tuition, so why don’t you support me for three years? I wanted to play tennis, that was my dream, and you cut it short,’” said Don Ahn, who is an accountant. “I was the person who said to go to college. We shook hands. That was the deal.”
Kristie Ahn recalled her father’s glee late in 2017, the last year of their deal.
“I swear he had a calendar countdown,” she said. “He’s like: ‘We’re almost there, end of 2017! Get ready to look for jobs! Do you have a résumé ready?’”
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To Don, going corporate beats the uncertainties of professional tennis.
“If you get injured, you’ve got nothing,” he said. “There’s no unemployment compensation. You just get hungry, and without money.”
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Fay Ahn said the attitude she and her husband had toward tennis often baffled others in the sport.
“People don’t understand us around here,” she said, looking around the player garden at the Open. “Everyone is saying ‘Why, why?’ But I just want her to live a normal life. Even if she makes some money, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s about having a steady job, having a family. And then she can enjoy tennis the rest of her life.”
How did anything I said get this reaction from you? Irl, I would have just decked you for disrespect
I know folks works jobs they absolutely hate for half that much. To play the sport you love for 100k sounds good to me.
