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Tennis great blames family for 'lost' money



Tennis great Arantxa Sanchez Vicario accuses the parents she is estranged from for losing the estimated $60 million she earned in her career through poor management.

The 40-year-old Sanchez Vicario let loose against her whole family in a book of memoirs published on Tuesday. She says she does not speak to her parents or her three siblings.

She says her parents were obsessed with her succeeding in a career which netted four Grand Slam singles titles, and even tried to interfere in her love life.

Sanchez Vicario's mother, Marisa, responded in an open letter to Spanish media that she and her husband Emilio were devastated by their daughter's accusations that they mismanaged her tournament winnings and endorsement money disastrously.

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