Guillermo Pérez Roldán, with an open heart: why he hid the story from his family and the responses to his father’s emails after making the disease public

In May 2020, Guillermo Perez Roldan shocked the tennis world by publicly denouncing the repeated mistreatment to which his father and coach, Raúl, subjected him throughout his tennis career. The former player has recounted in detail the physical and psychological violence that he suffered regularly before and after the games and also reported a scam that left him penniless shortly after the withdrawal. More than 24 months have passed since that harsh revelation and today, at 52, the man from Tandil is determined to pull something positive out of that nightmare that marked him in flames.

“What I said, for me, was the lightest, the rest is much heavier. But it was enough for this commotion to arise. Today I listen to people in the media, I see what they say on social media, I was recently told that in the last few days there have been five million Google searches on this topic, and I believe “Well, the message has arrived”. And if it keeps coming, welcome, because I will have achieved what my goal was when this was flagged: do my part to do something right, to try to avoid or alert so that a problem like the one I have lived, “he says Clarionehours after the first of “Guillermo Pérez Roldán, Reserved”a three-episode documentary series that can be seen from this Wednesday from Star +.

“the evil is done. What he (his father of him) did was really hard, unworthy and undeserved. But I have to try to turn something negative into positive, because I have to move on, “he continues.” Over the past two years I have been called by many women and boys who have experienced similar, different, terrifying things. And I think that something great can be done for sports and for children from this. I want this to be an inheritance. May it help so that when someone remembers me they don’t just say that Guillermo was a good tennis player, that maybe they say that he was a good father – even if in the future my children will have to say so – and a good person.