[moioci]

> a middling tennis player...

If you're referring to the 2006 NYT piece on Roger Federer, I think you're not supporting the "quite mundane" characterization

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fed...

[rcme]

I was talking about the essay "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness"

Michael Joyce's highest ranking was 64.

[Beldin]

64 in what? 64th worldwide is obviously not a middling player; 64th of his local club probably falls shy of that lofty moniker.

Perhaps you meant "middling professional player"? Because I don't think there's enough money to be made to pay for expenses and support you year-round if you do not crack the top-100.