Cruel father ‘assaulted’ daughters to try and make them tennis champs

A tennis coach assaulted and verbally abused his daughters in his obsessive drive to turn them into Wimbledon champions, a court heard. John De’Viana, 55, took the girls out of school to enforced a gruelling all-day training regimes on them, it was said. The girls were made to practice from 5:30am until they went to bed and he would stop them having meals if he thought they were not trying hard enough, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. Monaei De’Viana, now 21,…