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Originally Posted by treblings
Emerson actually said that? i mean itīs one thing to stay amateur, but to say you can do better as an amateur when the whole point of amateurism is not taking money is incredible
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This was reported in, I believe, World Tennis.
This was in 1964, when Emerson was at his peak of dominance and celebrity, and when he was reportedly given $10,000 at one event for jumping over his suitcase in the hotel room he was given.