{"id":819933,"date":"2026-07-23T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819933\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:38:12","slug":"tennis-news-2026-arantxa-sanchez-vicario-loses-60-millon-fortune-blames-husband-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819933\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news 2026: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario loses $60 millon fortune, blames husband, tax fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former tennis<\/a> world No.1 Arantxa S\u00e1nchez Vicario has revealed new details on how she lost her reported $60 million fortune and narrowly avoided jail.<\/p>\n

The four-time grand slam<\/a> champion and her entrepreneur now-ex husband Josep Santacana went on trial in 2023 accused of hiding assets to avoid paying bank debts. <\/p>\n

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Arantxa Sanchez Vicario celebrates victory in the 1998 Sydney International.\u00a0Michel A Bunn\/Fairfax Media<\/p>\n

It was the latest in a series of criminal charges relating to fraud accusations dating back as far as the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez Vicario was handed a two-year suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay back $10 million to a Luxembourg bank.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Spanish TV show Universo Callejo, S\u00e1nchez Vicario said she had lost her entire fortune, which she estimated to be about $60 million, and laid the blame firmly on her ex-husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cI trusted him because he was the father of my children,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell blindly in love \u2026 he really isn\u2019t the person I thought he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI focused on playing tennis and never handled my own financial affairs because I didn\u2019t know how.<\/p>\n

\u201cI trusted my husband \u2026 and the money vanished. I was left to shoulder the entire burden.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair were married for 11 years and have two children together.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez Vicario said she avoided going to jail because she accepted the judge\u2019s orders to pay 50 per cent of all future earnings towards the massive debt to the bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am complying when deep down I was a victim,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a shock [to go to trial]. I had to go to therapy because I couldn\u2019t believe it. It was like waking up from a dream and thinking, \u2018This can\u2019t be happening to me\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arantxa Sanchez Vicario at the 2025 Barcelona Open.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Spaniard has three Roland-Garros<\/a> titles to her name, and famously won her first in 1989 aged just 17. She won two more in 1994 \u2013 the same year she also won the US Open<\/a> \u2013 and 1998. She also made multiple finals at Wimbledon<\/a> and the Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After her retirement in 2002, S\u00e1nchez Vicario had a court named after her at Caja M\u00e1gica, which hosts the Madrid Masters<\/a> tournament. It has reportedly since been removed.<\/p>\n

She is now working as a tennis coach in the USA, and continues to pay half her wages to the debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former tennis world No.1 Arantxa S\u00e1nchez Vicario has revealed new details on how she lost her reported $60…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-819933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}