Professional squash player Alex Fuller forced to go it alone
Being a professional squash player in a sport that offers very little in the way of financial reward serves only to motivate Alex Fuller even more. SA’s No1 women’s player joined the paid ranks in 2013 and to date has nine Professional Squash Association (PSA) titles to her name, five netted in 2018. Her prize money totals a meagre R200,000. When you deduct the off-court costs not much is left to show for her dedication to the craft other than personal pride. It is a definite case of her playing the game for the sheer joy of it. Fuller, who is coached by Paul Atkinson, accepts her situation but finds the lack of support from Squash SA hard to swallow. To be blunt, the governing body does not give a cent to her cause other than the occasional "well done" e-mail. Their primary focus is on development, and while that is a good thing, what happens to the talent once groomed for a life on the international stage?
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