Guillermo Pérez Roldán Confidential

Former professional tennis player Guillermo Pérez Roldán reveals unknown details about his relationship with his father and coach, Raúl Pérez Roldán. From his early beginnings in the city of Tandil to his success in the Roland Garros junior, and his matches against Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi, where he competed neck and neck with the tennis superstars all before the age of twenty. Guillermo opens up about the brutal training regime imposed by Raúl, the psychological and physical abuse that he endured from childhood through the years he trained under his father, and the methods he took to cover up his injuries.

As his promising career begins to take off, Guillermo Pérez Roldán becomes the target of media harassment. A new love interest adds pressure to Guillermo’s relationship with his father Raúl, who seeks to end it as he doesn’t want anything threatening his son’s concentration. The abuse and demands the 18-year-old Guillermo endures from his father drives him to try to take his own life with his grandfather’s gun, firing two unsuccessful shots. Finally, an almost 20-year-old Guillermo finds the courage to dismiss his father as his coach.

Despite having fired his father as his coach, Guillermo hasn’t cut ties with Raúl, who corrects his technique and continues guiding his career. In 1993, in Genoa, Guillermo tore the ligaments in his wrist while trying to break up a fight and defend his father; the injury would mark the end of Guillermo’s professional tennis career. In 1994, Guillermo finds out that his tennis winnings have been drained from his account and that his own father defrauded him. In retirement, the ex-tennis player has a seizure, and upon accessing his medical records, he learns of a fatal health risk he played with throughout his entire career.