Was ‘Tennis Dad’ cruel or just a pushy parent?

The jury trying a tennis coach accused of abusing his daughters in his drive to turn them into Wimbledon champions must consider if his actions were ‘more than being a pushy parent’. John De’Viana, 55, allegedly took the girls out of school to enforced a gruelling all-day training regimes on them. 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,…