Shock in the tennis world: “I thought about suicide. “He raped me three times in one day.”

The tennis world is watching the Davis Cup these days, which this week is looking for eight countries to play for the title in November in Malaga. however, In the last hours a terrible testimony shook the foundations of racket sports.

Angélique Cauchy decided to take a step forward and tell the hell he went through when he was one of the young promises of French tennis.

The former tennis player gives a statement these days before the judge in the process against her former coach, Andrew Gueddes, who raped her nearly 400 times over two years, according to her testimony. A hell he recounted to an investigative commission looking for operational failures in French sports federations after learning more cases of sexual abuse and assault.

“My tennis coach raped me almost 400 times in two years” is one of Cauchy’s most striking phrases, recalling the terror he felt upon seeing “13 steps separated me from his room to be raped” during the 15-day concentration at La Baule.

“I lived the worst two weeks of my life, he raped me three times a day. The first night he asked me to go to his room and I didn’t. And so he entered mine. It’s worse. “I was imprisoned, I couldn’t get out when I wanted to,” Cauchy recalled.

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“He started by attacking me. I tried to defend myself and asked him to stop, over and over, every day: ‘Don’t touch me, that’s not right. I do not want’. Cynically, the coach responded: ‘Don’t worry, it happens a lot between coaches and girls,'” she continued.

“I lived between the ages of 13 and 18 thinking I had AIDS. I thought of suicide many times, he raped me three times in one day. I lived through a nightmare that ruined my career,” said the former tennis player.

At 36 years old, the former tennis player got the courage to say the hell he lived all those yearsa decision that led the French government to begin an investigation in Parliament.

Angélique Cauchy was one of the great promises of French tennis as a child and youth and At the age of 12 he began to be trained by Gueddes, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for assault and rape of minors. in January 2021 in a case considered “isolated behavior” but Cauchy was encouraged to come forward and tell his own story.

A story that stirred consciences in France and around the world.