Menendez Brothers: From Tennis Stardom to Prison 

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A nice cheery subject for a friday afternoon.

Even after they killed their parents they continued to practice 10 hrs a day seems a bit ironic

See, I've learned through my decades of experience in tennis that the secret to winning is to not kill your parents.

I am a tennis teaching pro.... I have seen parents like this.... the media NEVER gave the boys side of the story. Not condoning what they did but it does shed much light on why.... thanks for some REAL reporting

The case of the Menendez brothers always makes me sad, they suffered so much abuse at the hands of their parents.

Tennis parenting is already commonly known to give negative effects on players. Cases like Tomic’s efforts on court is reflected on what goes on at home probably.

Parents should not force their children to do anything to the extreme. Pushing them to work harder is ok, but making them play when they are sick is not a healthy decision. If you ask every tennis player that became successful, you will notice they all love the sport and their parents never forced the sport on them. Andree Agassi is an exception to this rule but I don't think parents should follow in his footsteps since he is in the 0.0001% of people. Have a nice day.

I'm sorry, what? I've never heard this, you never cease to amaze 😮

I love how he made a multi year case with so many details about mental, physical and sexual abuse to a case of a phyco tennis dad who’s tennis kids killed him and his wife

The fact that there are photos of them with huge smiles and glowing in prison really gives to perspective to the level of torture they endured at their parent's hands. Utterly heartbreaking and tragic.

Well done with the video, but wow, what a sad story. I read Agassi's book a couple of years ago. Those poor kids in these types of situations. 😢

They look so happy in their prison mugshots. I am leaning towards believing their story.

I’m not an expert But life without parole seems harsh

What I love most about this video is that it proves completely that you don't need millions of dollars and a crew of "professionals" to make anything of good production. Extremely well done work in all aspects. Every tv station should be completely ashamed of themselves being laced by teenagers and 20 whatever year olds destroying them in production value from a laptop.

this was the most f*cked-up stories I've ever heard/seen

Yah know why I like this guy, because his content is always always edited so entertaining and edited with card. So good and obviously takes a long time so we appreciate you man!

I shudder to think about how there can be worse parents. That was just insane. No breaks, all work, and everything else. Unfortunately, all that also comes at the cost of teaching certain core character and moral values. Otherwise, it is just a reminder that some people really don't know how to be parents. Space and independence is important and should not be neglected or shoved into like 4+ priority, if you're an athlete's parent.

I'm suddenly very glad to have normal, caring, and understanding parents

Astonishing! I'd never heard of this tragic story.

I’ve been waiting for another vid, this is probably my highlight of my day after playing tennis of course. 😂

Man you I can tell you work so hard on your videos. Idk what's happening with this video but definitely deserves hundreds of thousands of views

For a 36k channel this quality is insane, it would be good even for 1 million + channels

Though my high school friends weren't pushed to this, I knew of at least one that hated tennis (not sure about life), but he was our one singles (top player) that won states his senior year. Though I didn't get to witness it, his friends said he casually and happily threw out all of his racquets, bag, and I believe I was told his tennis shoes into the school's large dumpster. Even though he came from rich parents, throwing out probably over 2k in racquets and gear shows how much he truly hated and wanted to get away from the game. I was a freshmen at the time so didn't really get to know him, but I have to almost believe that his parent's pushed him too far for something that THEY wanted. Probably being great at something you hate must be the weirdest feelings in the world.

The line between greatness and Menendez.

I thought I knew the Menendez story after a few documentary style videos 30-40 minutes long about the murders, but little did I know the boys truly did have super strict, almost insane parents. I only knew the side of, ‘They killed their parents, saw a movie afterwards (Batman, I believe), and went on a crazy spending spree.’ Didn’t ever consider for the first time in their lives that was when they ‘felt free’, and were actually able to pursue being their own person, but were already so broken, and unable to process the trauma they received and gave themselves. No parent should die by their child’s hands, but that kind of resentment doesn’t rise from nowhere. The parents made the awful decisions, and treated their boys in ways that makes a kid not view their parent as a parent, more like a coach that is just looking for good prospects and if you don’t fit the mold they’ll just care about your brother or make another kid. The brothers took the matter to a permanently unforgivable level though. I just feel a bit more for they brothers because they could’ve been a lot more than meat and bones behind bars.

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Bruh im not even a tennis fan but i throughly enjoy this

lyle and erik could have had a good life, if it wasn't for their sick parents 💔

What an absolute tragedy. Some people just should not be parents...

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Maybe Unpopular opinion but Life without Parole seems too severe for them. Those parents mentally broke their own children. Life without parole means they are a danger to society with no chance of rehabilitation, I'd say they were just a danger to their parents and theyre gone lol

I’m halfway through the video and its awesome. I paused just to join skillshare with your link

Tennis AND true crime?? This channel is the best.

Hey Cult Tennis, I don't watch tennis (religiously just randomly if it comes on) but I have loved all your videos which are so niche.

high-quality video, thank you for sympathizing with them. they were 100% abused psychologically, emotionally, physically and sexually.

Love the video, still waiting on the tale of Bernard Tomic.

Excellent video. Idk why it has much less views than the other ones.

i like how you gave your vid a million views on your channel in this bit you say whats it doing here

You are growing so fast and it’s well deserved. One of my favorite channels rn and you keep getting better

Petition for cult tennis to post more true crime videos

He did it again. he gave us a free movie.

It's a well known fact that some people are not meant to be parents.

Please post again I love your videos

Your channel is great and your work is totally appreciated.

I don't even blame them

Almost all tennis parents are tough and make sacrifices and force their children to make sacrifices and lose their childhood. But this was insane.

Fantastic video! I enjoy seeing a different side of tennis on your channel. This one I'll call intriguing and informative.

I love this channel

THIS is what happens when a parent selfishly forces their kids to lose a childhood for “social” recognition and “monetary promise”. I ❤️🧡💛💚💜💙💜🖤🤍 it

This was such a tragic event.

Underrated video! Don't know much about tennis but I like your channel

This obsession with winning "even cheating", "no water breaks". The best tennis players want to win but first and foremost they LOVE tennis (except probably Kyrgios, he doesn't care). This kind of approach would made people that are good but not passionate. How to deal with children with abusive parents that killed them? Those parents failed miserably in their responsibilities, they treated their children as pets that must obey training or be put to sleep. If doing that to a pet would be monstrous imagine now with your children. I think attenuating circumstances is more than adequate. I feel for them they are more victims of abusive parents than otherwise. Even if you blame all on the boys, the parents created the instrument of their own demise. Well remembered about Agassi! I think the same happens with child actors, like Jeanette McCurdy that even wrote a book "I'm Glad My Mom Died" and later quit acting altogether.

Sampras’ parents were never involved and had little interest in his tennis. Worked for him.

These videos are such high quality I feel like you’re really pigeonholing yourself with the niche topic of tennis.

I have been waiting for this :)))))

I dont have idea the brothers were tennis future stars, nice video thanks

These videos are so well made.

I played Los Angeles junior tournaments in mid 80’s and was before they were ranked. Many tennis parents are too much.

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Yesssss I live for your videos my guy

They don’t deserve this poor boys 🥲

Did you notice how he doesn't add ads to his videos?

My dad actually played doubles with Erik as a junior. Apparently the guy was a total head case. Crazy to think that he was on the same court as a murderer.

Great video, something different but totally tennis ,!,

So basically two victims of decades of abuse ended up fighting back against the horrible people who made it their personal goal to ruin the boys' lives. They should be given a medal, not a prison sentence.

Tsitsipas parents are in big danger ,too, if you ask me

What a research and a video.

Why didn't this video come into my recommended like all your other videos do?

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Hey Do you play tennis or just watch it? Btw what is your name and age. Happy to see your videos

I dont get why the kids get in trouble here. Someone people its better for humanity if they are no longer allowed to....affect others. They deserve a medal, not to be locked behind metal.

Menandez brother needs to be free. They have done their time.

The sexual abuse was proven later. Sucks that the case can’t be reopened now.

This should be a netflix series

bruhhh, I would kill to play tennis so often. man my mom DOESNT want me to play

I think if a child can prove their parents were abusive, they should be acquired of their murder.

messed up

Such a shame. Honestly they could have run away or something

Menendez got hundreds proposals from women!

These days we know gen can be switch on and off by the programmers (parent) this case double the force both dad and mum, therefore 1st degree seems bit hard, between 1st and 2rd may be, if possible, educating them to rediscover themselves earn their earlier releases may be better balance, with experts approval of course, seems murder targets are parent only hopefully, and pose no danger to the society

Bruh why does that sound so much like my parents

Nice forza photo

"It is a comment to give me a love react"

Erik Menendez looked like Gareth Bale ngl

Do one on beauty pageant parents. JonBenet Ramsey......

Wow, that was pretty fucked up I'm writing a story about tennis and a group of characters have part of this story without knowing it really happened Damn :(

Got put in a spliff

love-love HATE-HATE lmao

I actually hope they get away with it, you can't win Everytime I guess

Ok the subject escalated quicky

Interesting how you bring people into life only to have them take your life away

I think this video got you on the youtube algorithm's "no-watch" zone. Looks like your channel is picking back up though.

Karma .

Do you play tennis?

While what they did was wrong, those parents got what was coming to them.

No human being is born evil. I have no sympathy for them in regards to what they did but I don't have much sympathy for their parents either. There's a difference between encouraging and supporting your children to excel to pushing your children to excel

Jose Menendez life and behavior seems suspicious... Maybe, he was an agent

Tennis stars LOL. That's a reach.