"I'm going to take your children in a coffin"

Laura Urruticoechea, wife of Chilean tennis player Nicolás Jarry, has revealed details of an intimidation incident her family endured during the 2024 Rome Masters 1000. The incident included death threats against their children and intrusions into their hotel room.

In a video posted on her Instagram profile, Urruticoechea recalled the events from two years ago, when unknown individuals repeatedly entered their room at the NH Collection Roma Palazzo Cinquecento hotel, where she was staying with her husband and their two children, then aged two and three. "I remember the fear we felt," she confessed.

The situation escalated with menacing messages. "I received messages saying, 'I'm going to take your children in a coffin.' I saw that right after the first match," she recounted. Another read: "Your husband messed with the Sicilian mafia."

The first alarm sounded when she returned to the hotel with her children, while Jarry was still at the Foro Italico. "We entered the children's room, and someone had been there. They had smoked a cigarette and left it extinguished on the bed. They placed the pillows on the floor, neatly aligned. The rest of the room was completely disheveled. It was like someone saying: 'I was here,'" she reported.

The hotel's reaction, according to Urruticoechea, was dismissive. "They thought it was us," she stated, adding that the hotel quickly cleaned the room, preventing police intervention. "They wouldn't let us speak to the police and erased any trace… and precisely at that moment, the hotel's cameras stopped working."

Hours later, after managing to contact authorities, she returned to the hotel with two officers and found an identical scene. "The same person had entered again, did the same thing with the pillows and the cigarette, but this time left two of the children's items on the bed. I remember the fear we felt, the invasion of our space… it was very intense."

Despite Nicolás Jarry requesting assistance from the ATP, the response was unsatisfactory. "They only offered to change our hotel. I thought we would have security, but there was nothing," his wife lamented. The family moved hotels, and while she handled the formal complaint, the tennis player continued to compete, ultimately reaching the tournament final, where he was defeated by Alexander Zverev.

At the time, neither the family nor the ATP commented on the matter to avoid attracting further attention. "We didn't want to generate more attention around something we didn't want," Urruticoechea explained.