Juan Carlos Belfonte, Former Trainer To Vilas, Dies Aged 81
Juan Carlos Belfonte, the long-time former physical trainer of Guillermo Vilas, passed away on Tuesday aged 81 due to leukaemia and COVID-19 in Buenos Aires. Belfonte, who studied as a physical education professor at the La Plata Institute for Physical Education, assisted Argentina in 58 Davis Cup ties between 1970 and 1990 and worked with Vilas, Bjorn Borg, Jose-Luis Clerc and Victor Pecci. Guillermo Rivas told ATPTour.com, “In the 1970s, Belfonte saw that giving tennis players more resistance and explosive training gave them more options to play different games. He applied biomechanics...
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