Want Your Kid to Win the Open? Spend $400,000 on Lessons
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At 16, Petra Kvitova was already one of the best tennis players in her Czech Republic hometown. With other teens competing abroad, she had little opportunity to advance.
“I have two older brothers and my parents didn’t really have money to travel,” Kvitova, now 24 and a two-time Wimbledon champion, said in an interview. “We knew that if I wanted to play better, I had to move somewhere else.”