New York – When Leylah Fernandez was cut from a Canadian youth tennis development program, her father Jorge, an Ecuadorian soccer player, became her coach in a sport he knew almost nothing about.
What he did know was how to be a professional athlete, and he infused his daughter with mental toughness, patience, focus and confidence — the same attributes he learned the hard way on the football field.
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