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Sanchez-Vicario must pay $5.1M in back taxes

Published Dec. 10, 2009 8:42 p.m. ET

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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.

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