{"id":63258,"date":"2025-09-14T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63258\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:30:13","slug":"three-weeks-of-paying-for-my-food-strings-and-accommodation-i-lost-money-michael-agwi-on-struggles-of-lower-ranked-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63258\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Three weeks of paying for my food, strings and accommodation \u2013 I lost money\u2019 \u2013\u00a0Michael Agwi on struggles of lower-ranked players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">After 18 months of hard work Ireland\u2019s top tennis player targets top 300 place in world\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Agwi spoke to the Irish Independent at Ireland's Davis Cup team hotel.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/01a09d99-6da7-4d56-92d9-d63aba642d2e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Agwi spoke to the Irish Independent at Ireland&#8217;s Davis Cup team hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was December 2023 and after back-to-back defeats in tournaments in Turkey, Michael Agwi decided he could take no more. He had enough of the relentless defeats tennis guarantees and at the age of just 20, he felt he had nothing more to give.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Retirement beckoned for the Dublin-born big-hitter who was struggling to fund a career that must be one of the toughest in all of sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 18 months of hard work Ireland\u2019s top tennis player targets top 300 place in world Michael Agwi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,2724,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-63258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kevin-palmer","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}