Sanchez-Vicario to pay $5.1 million in back taxes
December 10, 2009 11:07 AM
MADRID — 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.
