![]() “When he won, he didn’t have the economic boom with the sponsors. Patricio Apey, then his manager, still regrets it to this day. That’s what happened with Argentina’s Gaston Gaudio after his 2004 title. Throughout his career, Patricio Apey came across some very special players and situations.Ĭan it be difficult for Roland Garros champion to be commercially viable? Can the owner of the Musketeers’ Cup not attract big tennis companies? Yes. “Looking at the past, things are very clear: two years ago, he had seven contracts and, as far as I know, now he has one left”. If he had told me he wanted to go with Federer, I would have taken him to them”, Apey said during an extensive interview with CLAY. “Someone convinced him that the grass is greener on the other side. In the end, an out-of-court settlement netted Patricio Apey $1.4 million. Then, Zverev decided to go to the Team 8 agency (owned by Roger Federer and Tony Godsick) prompting a few lawsuits. Chilean Patricio Apey, who modeled careers such as those of Argentine Gaston Gaudio, German Alexander Zverev and today that of Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, knows it well.Īnd if one experience was bitter, that is the one he had with Zverev, whom he represented since the German was 15 years old, until he broke into the elite. ![]() There is something perhaps as complicated as being a tennis player’s coach: being his agent. ![]()
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