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It’s been their life for more than ten years.

Got so good, they were offered a full ride at Texas Southern University.

But once they arrived it appears the ball was dropped.

“The only thing I know is that I’m here without money and with an apartment to pay and he won’t care,” said Roxana Martinez a TSU tennis player.

He is Alberto Rojo Jimenez, head tennis coach at TSU.

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Some TSU tennis players claim their coach for lost scholarship money.

He also teaches classes at a private club.

“He said I was going to be living in apartments that I shouldn’t be worried about anything he was going to give me clothes, and shoes and rackets and everything,” said Martinez.

Everything a student could ask for except that never happened.

The players who were recruited from countries like Poland, Mexico and Egypt, accuse Rojo Jimenez of taking part of their scholarship money.

“I was evicted because he owes rent for a whole month,” said Christopher Gloc.

Gloc came all the way from Venezuela.

He said his coach not only took his scholarship check but asked him for more money so he reluctantly gave him a credit card. “There was 2000 dollars paid towards the university.”

Yet there’s no record the university ever received that money.

There’s another $500 to an auto repair shop but Gloc doesn’t even own a car.

“It’s not easy to come to the states and support yourself, you only come if you’re offered a scholarship,” said Martinez.

So far this semester the team of 18 players has practiced only once.

With no tennis to be played they worry there will be no money to be had perhaps just enough for a trip back home.

The school says it is aware of the situation and is investigating.