I have a lot of strength and a huge fighting spirit left, but money, nothing. And I’m almost grateful for it, because that drives me to continue working like anyone else does. That is the Arantxa that people don’t know. With these words, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defines his current economic situation in an interview with the magazine I Donate.
However, he admits not knowing how much he has earned during his almost two decades as a professional on the courts: I dedicated myself exclusively to playing tennis. I knew I was making money, but I was relying on other people to take care of those things. Have no reason to be suspicious. Now I know exactly what I have.
Yo I have never been privileged. I have worked long and hard. What’s more, I thought that was normal, that there was no other option. I didn’t have much time to have fun, but I didn’t care because, for me, tennis was everything and I knew that you only get better with effort. There is no other way to do it.
But he does not regret having made these efforts and missing out on things more appropriate to his age at the time: I have always had that feeling, but, honestly, I don’t know how my life would have turned out if I had lived through it. I don’t know… Everything came to me very quickly and when I was very young.
And she knows that she was naive in economic matters: I think that when you are a good person, you trust and, if things don’t go well, then you end up being naive. This is how I interpret what happened to me.
The relationship with Josep Santacana
During her interview with the magazine, the former tennis player also talks about her descent from heaven to hell due to the traumatic separation from the father of her children, Josep Santacana, and the trial in which she was convicted of embezzlement. And how she has been reborn and reinvented herself: I am a Sagittarius, a fire sign. Maybe I have drawn that inner strength from my journey into the depths. I have two wonderful children whom I love madly, who are the driving force of my life and who, in the most difficult moments, have given me the courage I needed to move forward. AND Anyone who is a mother knows that there is no force more powerful than what our children give us.. I get excited talking about them.
Today, fortunately, I can say that I feel fine and I have learned what hell is. Knowing what is there has helped me appreciate what is up here more and know where I never want to return. I have learned a lot and that has made me even stronger, he adds.
And he doesn’t close the door to love: Like any other person who has gone through a separation or divorce. Some marriages end well, others last a lifetime, said Woody Allen. I’m not ruling anything out..
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