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American tennis player and rising OnlyFans star Sachia Vickery has revealed the brutal financial truth that pushed her to launch an adult content career.
The 30-year-old returned to the court for US Open qualifying this week, beating Anastasiya Soboleva in the first round before losing against Germany's Ella Seidel.
While her comeback has made headlines, it's Vickery's lucrative side hustle that has truly set the internet ablaze in recent days.
The Florida native, who charges $12.99 a month for access to what she calls 'content too spicy for Instagram', has faced sharp criticism since joining the x-rated platform.
Some fans claim she's tarnishing the sport but Vickery insists her OnlyFans success has helped keep her tennis career alive.
'When you're on tour you're not automatically making a ton of money,' Vickery told the New York Post from Flushing Meadows.
American tennis player and rising OnlyFans star Sachia Vickery has revealed the brutal financial truth that pushed her to launch an adult content career
The 30-year-old, currently ranked No. 559 in the world, has faced backlash from fans after revealing she had joined adult content site OnlyFans earlier this year
'Yes, I have done very well throughout my career. I've made great investments from the time I was young, so you know, it's like I'm fine.
'But at the same time, tennis players spend $100K plus a year on coaching, hotels, food, training, physio. So if I have another avenue where I'm able to make a lot of money to support that, you know, I don't see anything negative with it, personally.'
Vickery has banked just over $2million throughout her 14-year career on the court. Outside of the sport, she demands a $1,000 deposit fee just to date her.
'It's an expensive sport, so I invest a lot of my money from there back into tennis, and I think that's one thing people don't understand. They think I'm just doing it to do it,' she added.
'It's a great moneymaker. It's a great investment. If I have the potential to make a lot of money on there, why am I not going to take it? It's giving me a better life.'
Her OnlyFans platform teases her 'longest shower vid yet,' strip teases and 'spicier' pictures, while also asking her fans to rate her 'riding skills' as she shares risque videos and saucy snaps.
'I no longer date for free due to the behavior of men I now require a pre-date deposit send me 1,000 and we can make it happen my cashapp is $Sachiavick,' she told her 39,4000 followers during an Instagram Q&A session earlier this week.
While Vickery's move may have sent ripples through the tennis world, she has no regrets. She previously revealed that she's always seen herself as something of a revolutionary.
The athlete has carved out a successful side career selling steamy photos of herself
For $12.99 a month, OnlyFans subscribers have access to 'the content too spicy for Instagram'
'I've always pushed boundaries,' she said on the Black Spin Global podcast earlier this year. 'I've always been outspoken about racial hate I get online, bodyshaming. I'm very open about a lot of stuff.
'I'm still playing tennis, my career is still going but I also want to do things outside of tennis. I'm starting to explore more opportunities on social media.'
'Obviously there are levels to OnlyFans, you have athletes like Nick [Kyrgios] and Alex [Muller] who are going to be posting tennis content for the most part and then you have the other complete extreme, which I'm not. I'm in that middle gap,' she added.
'I set it up in January and it just took off. Being a tennis player definitely helped my marketing. I'm at a stage where I don't do the absolute most on there but I'm comfortable as I need to be. I'm doing really well.
'Obviously, I'm going to get some negative feedback but that's just normal. Whatever you do in life there's always going to be some criticism. If I was doing nothing I'd be getting criticism, so I might as well get on the platform and make money while I'm at it.'
Yet as she stepped onto the Grand Slam stage in Flushing Meadows again this week, Vickery once again hit back at her critics.
Vickery has banked just over $2million throughout her 14-year career on the court
'I'm very open-minded and I don't care what people think of me … it's also the easiest money I've ever made and I enjoy doing it,' said Vickery when asked about balancing the two entirely different worlds together in an Instagram Q&A session.
'I will never talk s*** about girls on OnlyFans ever again for the rest of my life. Because the amount I made on there in my first two days, I am overwhelmed. I am just shook really.'
Vickery, whose father Rawle is a former soccer player and brother Dominque Mitchell played football at South Carolina State, turned professional in 2011 after training with USTA and Mouratoglou Academy in France.
But her career peaked back in 2018, when she managed a career-high ranking of World No 73.
