Already, as the junior looked like Guillermo Pérez Roldán a bid on an upcoming superstar in the tennisverdenen.
the Performance was to feel on, but they came with an overly expensive price.
It tells Roldán on now, more than 20 years after the 50-year-old argentine chose to stop their career, in an interview with the argentine newspaper La Nación.
For the father, as also was the trainer for him, was not a loving one.
– My father was a visionary, an extraordinary technician and a great coach, he says to the newspaper, according to Blick.
But he was a terrible father, and unfortunately, I was his son, he adds.
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Guillermo Roldán was well in time to take the French Open by storm, before the painter André Agassi processed the young argentine out in the quarter-finals of the tournament in 1988. Picture: Lionel Cironneau/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
In the interview tells Roldán about the cruel punishment, as his own father practiced, when the son had lost a fight.
– After a defeat, beat my father to me with a fist in the face. He pushed my head down in the bathtub. He tied me to the bed and whipped me with his belt, he recalls.
It promised in spite of everything great on the track for the young argentinian, who won the French Open for juniors in both 1986 and 1987, before seniorkarrieren started great.
it was a final defeat to Ivan Lendl in Italy Open in 1988, before Andre Agassi became the terminus for him in the French Open the same year.
It led to a ranking as the world number 13 already in the first season as a senior, but the damage had thwarted the career of increasing the argentinian in the 90’s. Therefore, the career is set definitively in 1996.
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But even if there was harvested just fine with the other titles up to then, there were still empty in the coffer, as was said stop.
– I was poor, just three months after, I set the career. I had to borrow money from my grandmother to survive, says Roldán.
For the money had the father snatched. All the according to Roldán five million dollars (33 million) was drawn out of the account.
this, despite The fact that the son had saved the father out of a feud with two men, who knocked his father at a train station in Genoa in 1993.
A rescue that meant the bank to the son, which subsequently had to be operated on several times and still continue to feel the impact of today’s episode.
today, father and son, no contact. Something, as the son is annoyed with, because, as he said:
– I hope we can come closer one day. In the end he is, after all, my father.
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