S\u00e1nchez Vicario<\/a>, who won four Grand Slam titles during her illustrious career, was handed a two-year suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay back no less than nearly \u20ac9 million to a bank in Luxembourg.<\/p>\nThe Spanish tennis-darling revealed on a Spanish TV show Universo Callejo that she had lost her entire fortune, which she estimated to be about \u20ac52 million and blames her former husband for her financial misery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI trusted him because he was the father of my children,\u201d she said. \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.\u00a0I trusted my husband \u2026 and the money vanished. I was left to shoulder the entire burden.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arantxa S\u00e1nchez Vicario and Josep Santacana\u00a0 were married for 11 years and have two children together.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez Vicario revealed that 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. \u201cIt was a shock. 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
The Spanish tennis star who especially excelled on clay won three French Open titles, the first in 1989 at just 17 years old. Known for her relentless grit, the International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee captured 4 Grand Slam singles titles, 6 women’s doubles titles, and 4 mixed doubles titles in total<\/p>\n
Caja M\u00e1gica, which hosts the Madrid Masters tournament named a court after her in 2002 after her retirement but the name has since been removed.\u00a0S\u00e1nchez Vicario today works 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 and Grand Slam winner, Arantxa S\u00e1nchez Vicario, has provided new details on how she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-782057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}