Report: Oudin's father filed for divorce last year
Posted Sep 10, 2009 7:09 AM
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NEW YORK -The father of American tennis sensation Melanie Oudin is seeking a divorce from her mother, alleging Leslie Oudin had an affair with the teenager's coach, according to a report by SI.com.
The Web site reported Wednesday night that Oudin's father, John, filed for divorce in July 2008 on grounds of adultery. According to the report, John Oudin said in a sworn statement last month that his wife had an affair with the 17-year-old's coach, Brian de Villiers.
Melanie Oudin's parents were married in 1989 and have three daughters.
John Oudin was not in his daughter's guest box Wednesday night for her U.S. Open quarterfinal loss to No. 9-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.
According to SI.com, John and Leslie Oudin agreed to several conditions in a temporary order dated Dec. 16, 2008, including a stipulation "that (Leslie) will not interact with Brian de Villiers except as it specifically relates to the children's tennis activities ... (and) not to travel with Brian de Villiers to any tennis tournaments in which the children are participating."
The Oudin divorce proceedings are ongoing, the Web site reported.
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2009-09-10 07:23:40

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Bouncingpen60
10:03AM Sep 10 2009 
First of all, I don't see any FORMAL court documents saying this is true. Secondly, I'm sure if this actually happened and was ongoing her parents would have fired her coach and gotten another. There are plenty of them out there. There's no family going through a divorce with the mother knowingly sleeping with the coach who would continue to keep him around and Melanie would certainly not want him there either if he was breaking up her parent's marriage. I'm quite sure that stipulations as to when Leslie is allowed to be in the coaches presence would not be in any court documents that are available to the public. Maybe now John McEnroe can take over her coaching. He said publicly when commentating this week that he would love to get ahold of her and coach her. It's really sad that all people want to do is try to dig up dirt on this girl's family and make up a bunch of hurtful things. Isn't it enough that she is an up and coming American player as we seem to have soooooo few of them. Seems weird that we have all of these programs all over the U.S. to teach kids tennis and we have no one to replace the ones who retire.
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Greatqb44
9:22AM Sep 10 2009 
She knew her mom was a bimbo since last year so I doubt it affected her that much
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LvsPnthers
2:53AM Sep 10 2009 
Poor Melainie and her sisters, having to deal with their parents' divorce and now it being made public... I wonder how that affected her play Wednesday night?
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