"My mother decided on my hair, my clothes ... When I bought something on my own, she rarely liked it."
"Today, I am without resources."
Sanchez-Vicario's battle with tax authorities has been ongoing. In 2009 the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the 40-year-old to pay around $NZ7m in income tax after rejecting claims that she was a resident of Andorra and not Spain from 1989 to 1993.
Sanchez-Vicario's mother has hit back writing in Spanish newspaper El Mundo: "Our daughter Arantxa had gone a step further in her desire to hurt us and humiliate us," Eurosport.com.au reports.
"As we read the article that was published we sunk deeper and deeper into despair, not because of all the lies in it, which came one after another, but more because we realised the actual state of our daughter.
"For 20 years, we put everything aside and forfeited our lives and our marriage for her career.
"I personally escorted her from a very young age to every tournament, leaving my husband and my other children behind.
"Then my husband Emilio quit his job to accompany her and help her.
"We tried to do the best we could. Clearly we failed her...we are accused of leaving her in ruins with the type of a grudge and resentment worthy of your worst enemy."
- HERALD ONLINE
