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Question: What is the average earnings ($) that has meg mallon as the player, with a rank less than 9?
Columns: ['Rank', 'Player', 'Country', 'Earned', 'Earnings ( $ )']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'real']
Sample row: [1.0, 'Annika Sörenstam', 'Sweden', '1993–2008', 22573192.0]
SQL:

assistant: SELECT AVG("Earnings ( $ )") FROM "Table" WHERE "Player" = 'meg mallon' AND "Rank" < 9.0;