At the age of 36, former tennis player Angélique Cauchy, from France, reveals to the world, not only about sports, the hell she had to endure when she was just a child, the one praised for her skill with the racket .

Cauchy was sexually abused by her coach. How could you imagine that someone so close could do something like that?

It hurts to listen to their harsh testimony. Influence. She claims: “I was raped almost four hundred times by my tennis coach in two years.” His words are echoed by European media, such as La Voz de Galicia.

That medium remembers that “Angélique Cauchy was one of the great expectations of children’s and youth tennis in her country.”

Moreover, he stood out when he was between 12 and 14 years old and held the number two position in the junior tennis rankings.

The 13 steps of rape terror

His coach was his victim. It is Andrew Gueddes, who came into the then tennis player’s life at the age of 12. The year was 1999.

Cauchy is traumatized. He has lived in fear and the shadow of suicide has passed through his mind.

For an investigative committee “looking for operational errors in French sports federations”, the woman offered impact data, Antena 3 noted on September 12, 2023.

She silenced everyone when she referred to the “13 steps” that “separated her from her room to be raped.”

According to the victim, Gueddes came from La Baule (a French municipality) “and during the process I learned what his mechanism was,” he explained, Antena 3 reports citing Le Parisien.

“He took his victims there to get to the next level,” he claims.

She remembers: “I went through the worst two weeks of my life, he raped me three times a day (…) I was raped almost 400 times.”

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It ruined my career, says the former tennis player

According to Antena 3, the perverted coach was “sentenced in 2021 to 18 years in prison for rape and sexual assault of four girls between the ages of 12 and 17.”

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And this week, details emerged of the terror experienced by the woman, who is now 36 years old.

I became little less than a sleepwalking slave.

Angélique Cauchy, extension player

He said that when they trained in La Baule (northern France), “our rooms were ten meters away. He started by crawling into my bed. Then he let me go to his room. “I experienced a nightmare that ruined my career.”

The situation with Gueddes was not entirely strange in the world of French tennis.

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Angélique Cauchy, extension player

“It was known that he was not correct towards girls. I don’t talk about myself because I didn’t know, but the others always said, “Yes, he is with or dating.” A woman informed the club president and he replied: ‘Yes, but it gives us titles’Cauchy says according to La Razón.

This victim was only 12 years old. She was a girl and he knew how to intimidate and scare her.

“Mocking me, He even told me he had AIDS”, collects La Voz de Galicia. “I thought about suicide several times,” he said.

I lived between the ages of 13 and 18 and thought I had AIDS.

Angélique Cauchy, extension player

When he tried to refuse, Gueddes replied: “You know that sometimes this happens in the relationships between coach and student. We spend so much time together, it’s normal,” TyC Sports published.

Cauchy, who had already shown part of this drama in May 2023, stated according to TyC sports “But I didn’t want to, he was my mother’s age.”

(JO)