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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone can be on the soccer team, but only the country club kids do the tennis. [/quote]

Not true [/quote]
The better tennis teams are packed with kids that have probably spent $10-$20K on tennis before 9th grade.[/quote]

How would that much be spent?[/quote]

You can very easily spend that when you consider private lessons are $100-$200 an hour, group sessions at $50-$75 and tournament travel. My guess is the elite juniors easily  spend in the $40K- $50K range per year [/quote]

I went with my 9th grader DS to IMG academy between 12/20/24 and 01/08/2025 (I left early while DS is still there until next week).  There were so many Asian and Indian folks that sent their kids there during the winter break to train for both golf and tennis.  I met five other folks from the DMV with their kids there.  FWIW, those kids attend the best public or private schools in the DMV, schools like Churchill, Sidwell, NCS, Langley, etc...  It is EXTREMELY competitive to make the varsity team at these schools without extensive training.  YMMV.[/quote]

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