Sachia Vickery admits that when he was like young, he dreamed of being a professional tennis player, he never thought he would upload images one day …
Sachia Vickery admits that when he was a professional tennis player as a young, he never thought that he would upload his images to a website famous for his content for adults one day.
“Of course no,” he told CNN in a telephone interview. “It’s not something you really think.”
But everything changed this year, when a shoulder injury left her for six months outside the courts and began to publish content in Onlyfans to earn extra money while I was injured. Vickery reached 73 in the world ranking in 2018 and is currently just outside the top 550. Although the money received in prices during his career, US $ 2.1 million, he argues that it is much less money than it seems.
“I assure you that US $ 2 million is nothing when it comes to tennis. I have spent more than US $ 100,000 on training, physical conditioning, physiotherapy, recovery, magnetic resonances; people don’t see that part,” says Vickery, who adds: “Making a break on his own and with some good money.
Onlyfans was founded in 2016 and is an online subscription platform with which users can publish videos and photos for their fans. Although the content is not always openly on nudes (Cardi B has used the platform in the past to offer its fans a look between stretching to their lives and work), the website has become a platform mainly for content for adults, from fetish and foot photos to sexting and more explicit videos with X classification.
Fans pay a monthly fixed rate to access this content, with the option to pay more for extra videos or experiences. In 2024 the platform had more than 4 million makers.
Vickery stated CNN Sports that his association with only fans started when the Australian player Nick Kyrgios contacted pickleball content for the site’s television platform in March. From there he realized that he could offer more intimate content and, although he did not reveal exactly how much income he has generated so far, he says that he has reached about six digits in the first three months, “probably more than I won in the Grand Slams and has not stopped rising so far.”
Among athletes, especially in less lucrative sports, only fans have become an increasingly popular secondary work. Alysha Newman, a Canadian wristjumper, joined the platform in 2021, and MMA Paige Vanzant Fighter claimed to have earned more money in 24 hours in fans than in All your career as a fighter. The basketball player Liz Cambage made similar explanations and said he won more in fans alone than for six years in the WNBA.
Vickery is not the only tennis player who has only taken fans, but he is one of the few that is inclined to have more intimate content. The French player Alexandre Müller is sponsored by the platform, where, he says, he mainly publishes about tennis and daily life. Kyrgios presented his program with the adult movie star Rachel Starr and the reality star Sophie Stonehouse. The Australian player Arina Rodionova joined at the beginning of this year and stated that she would publish “Without Naked” and mainly concentrate on daily life, with an occasional photo in bikini.
When the media heard that the subscribers paid US $ 12.99 a month for the content of Vickery on the site, the Daily Mail crossed the 30 -year -old American employee, referring to her “scandalous” and “spicy” photos.
Vickery told CNN Sports that his content had nothing to do with that.
“I have no sexual content there,” he said. “I have no nudes. Of course I have lingerie content, I have content where I really exceed, but I am never completely naked. I have never made sexual videos.”
Vickery points out that he is still an active professional tennis player who understands that everything can show more in tone, the sports code of behavior and states: “I am good where I am.” He also clarified that his recent comment about Instagram, where he said he would only go out with men to first pay him a deposit of US $ 1,000, was a joke.
Vickery says he understood that as soon as he came to the site, they would judge her.
“If you see that you only have fans, they automatically associate you with something like:” Ok, it’s a porn star. ” People don’t understand that only fans have many different levels, “he said.
Reminding his front and cons – Listia Before he came to the site, he added: “I saw him coming, and if it is something you can’t handle, you shouldn’t be on the platform. I don’t care what they think of me.”
Vickery, who describes himself as an ‘entrepreneur’, says that some tennis players have approached her with curiosity to the site.
“We don’t have a luxury to have a security network or financial freedom if we don’t belong to the 100 best,” he said. “Some players have asked me curiously: how much money is there? Is it worthwhile? If you get injured, you earn nothing. Even playing for a whole year, many players are in red numbers. It would not surprise me if I saw more players there.”
To be clear, Vickery stated CNN sports that he does not need the money he only earns with only fans, but he does it because it is an “easy source of income”. However, he confirms that the financial pressure is untenable for many smaller players and warned the ruling sporting agencies that pay more attention to their difficult situation.
“If you don’t want players in fans alone, why do we not implement a system where players are really paid outside the top 100 what they deserve? And this has been discussed for years. To be honest, I think that as tennis was a sport where those who play the receive what they really deserve are no people who are alone or only use fans or something.”
The WTA works to reach equality in the most important events of the circuit, including a compromise of US $ 400 million in prices that will help to reach equality in all combined events by 2027 and in all WTA 1000/500 events for 2033. The Awards Boot in 2025, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 %, 13 % more than last year. This includes the record bag of US $ 90 million at the US Open.
For now, Vickery is just happy to play tennis again. In the United States of this week, he returned to action for the first time in six months and lost in the second round of the qualifying phase. But he knows that he is as a player in the decline of his career and is pleased to have discovered another source of income.
“If men want to give me money,” he concludes, “why should I not accept it? Bikini, wearing a bathing suit or sports is what I do all day. The only difference is that I now document them. For me it is not that much.”
When asked if he would consider taking his career in fans alone, except retirement from Tennis, he replied: “At the moment I would say she’s a sounding”, and adds: “If I had the chance to earn a lot of money on that path, I wouldn’t exclude it at all. Pornography and sexual videos, but I couldn’t have thought.”
The CNN-Wire
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