Painful career twist: Wimbledon champion forced to sell 'sexual images' - voila! sport

Former tennis player Sofia Zhuk (sofya_zhuk)

Sofia Zhuk was a talented tennis player, who won the girls' championship in 2015 and was considered a promising player, but since then she has abandoned her professional career, and recently the young Russian began to earn a living from a different source of income: Onali-Fanes.

Jock, now 23, has announced plans to open a page for herself on an adult platform, where photos and videos (usually with a sexual connotation) can be uploaded for a paid monthly subscription.

For tennis fans who remember her as a teenager with a promising future, it's certainly disappointing, after she beat Anna Blinkova (now 2015th in the world) in 56 in a tournament in which she lost just one set.

Expect a promising future for her. Jock (Photo by Getty Images, Ian Walton)

I always played under excruciating pain." Jock (Photo: official website, Instagram, sofya_zhuk)

It could have ended differently. Jock (Photo: official website, Instagram, sofya_zhuk)

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To the dismay of Juke, a graduate of a prestigious academy in Belgium who raised Justine Henin, among others, she suffered an injury that forced her to retire. Her last professional match was in 2019, in the Wimbledon qualifiers, which she also lost with chronic back pain at the age of 20.

She told Germany's Bild: "My body needed rest. I was in such bad shape that even the doctors refused to treat me. I don't digest protein, so the vertebrae in my back were like those of a 60-year-old man. I always played under excruciating pain. I love tennis, but I had to think about my health."

Jock, who also works as a model, said she was taking charge of her life and career with the opening of the Onley-Fans page, which would guarantee her direct income from her photos. "The moment you've been waiting for has arrived, I promise there will be a lot of interesting things," she said, but at the same time insisted that she would not undress, but only bring up sexually suggestive things.

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