Swiss Patty Schnyder got married December 8th

The #23 ranked Schnyder didn’t bring her parents and brother to the wedding party. Patty Schnyder did break off family ties. There is no contact between the parents and their daughter.  “I don't want to talk to them and have a relationship with them. They hurt me so many times and they were really terrorizing me. They could not let go and let me live my life and respect my decisions.” Schnyder said in a recent interview with Tennis Week.

The marriage has worried the Schnyder family: Mother Iris Schnyder said she was really disappointed with Patty’s decision to marry Rainer Hofmann. “It is simply a disaster that our astrayed daughter is shifting into her ruin being married," she said about the family drama. "Poor Patty; she has not one friend or member of family, even not her brother, who she loved so much.”

The parents are worried about their daughter after falling into the wrong hands of an alternative therapist at the age of 20. This Rainer Harnecker had a lot of influence on Schnyder and acted as her coach. According to this new coach it was best to break with the family, keep a strict diet program and drink large quantities of orange juice.

When Schnyder met with Hofmann in Munich he was able to get her away from Harnecker and her unhealthy way of living. They soon started to travel together and Rainer Hofmann moved in with her.

Schnyder wanted to pick up her own life again and didn’t need ‘guidance’ from her parents. According to Schnyder her parents have told lies about Hofmanns past. She has a different opinion about her husband and she is not letting her parents tell her what is wrong and what is right for her.