Sanchez-Vicario owes $1.5M in taxes
The Spanish Supreme Court has ordered former top-ranked women's
player Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario to pay back approximately $5.1
million in unpaid income tax.
The court rejected Sanchez-Vicario's assertion that she was a
resident of Andorra and not Spain from 1989 to 1993.
The court said in its ruling Thursday that the three-time
French Open champion "never effectively lived in Andorra and never
had the intention of doing it in any moment, either."
The 37-year-old Barcelona native, who also won the U.S. Open
in 1994, was appealing the decision from a high court ruling in
July 2003.