When Milos Raonic was acing his way to number 3 in the world, he earned millions of dollars from endorsements based in part on his clean-cut image and professional demeanor.
Canadian sportswriters, who named him Canada’s athlete of the year in 2013 and 2014, often lauded his composure, maturity and thoughtful analysis. When asked about coaching changes in his camp, he famously said: “I am the CEO of Milos Raonic Inc.”
But for three years during the peak of his career, allegations of sexual harassment were rocking his camp.
They finally came to light when Stephanie Lopez, a young agent at the Creative Artists Agency, sued CAA in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2018 and accused Amit Naor, an agent for Mr. Raonic since 2011, of sexually harassing her several times between 2015 and 2017. She claimed that at least five incidents occurred before, during and after Raonic’s matches at Indian Wells, Miami and Wimbledon (including the 2016 final).
British media would later accuse Raonic’s associate Michael Downey of covering up a child abuse scandal during that same period when he was chief of the British Lawn Tennis Association. In early 2017, Mr. Downey announced his resignation from the LTA a few days after police arrested Daniel Sanders, a prominent British coach who was later jailed six years for grooming under-age players for sex. Soon afterward, Mr. Downey returned to his former post at the helm of Tennis Canada, where he has often selected Raonic to represent Canada at international events.
The allegations against Mr. Naor have not been proven in court, and Mr. Raonic was not a named Defendant in the lawsuit. While Mr. Raonic tried to stay above the fray for several years, his reputation and his ranking descended after the Telegraph in London published a story in November 2020 criticizing him for continuing to employ Mr. Naor, who was fired from CAA in October 2017 after a 10-week investigation.
“Milos Raonic has come under fire for continuing to stand by his long-time agent Amit Naor, three years after Naor was dismissed by Creative Artists Agency in the wake of sexual harassment allegations,” wrote Simon Briggs in the Telegraph. “Although no longer part of CAA, Naor continues to represent Raonic, the former Wimbledon finalist.”
The story noted that Ms. Lopez was a junior agent at CAA from 2013 to 2018 and worked as Mr. Naor’s assistant. “In American court filings lodged on Oct 23, 2018, Lopez made numerous allegations, including that Naor had thrown a chair at her, forced her to sleep in the same bed as him on a work trip, called her a “wetback” (a racial slur for Mexican or South American immigrants), and slapped her violently while watching a match at the Miami Open.”
A spokesman for CAA told the Telegraph that CAA could verify some but not all of Ms. Lopez’s claims.
While Mr. Naor has not replied to any media seeking his comments pertaining to Ms. Lopez, his client Milos Raonic publicly supported Mr. Naor. “I know Amit, I know his character and I stand behind that,” Mr. Raonic said during the 2020 US Open in New York. “I think it was something that was blown out of proportion with some ulterior motives from the story that I heard, and some people leaning a little too much on, let’s say, this cancel culture nowadays. The things that were being said about him I know not to be true.”
The Telegraph, however, quoted several women who slammed Mr. Raonic.
Carolina Blanco, executive director of the Washington-based agency Sports International Group, said: “To say that the claims against Naor have been ‘blown out of proportion’, or to suggest that this is part of ‘cancel culture’ is absurd. Maybe this is why you do not see many women with positions of power in sports.”
Payoshni Mitra, a London-based activist for the rights of athletes, said: “Raonic trivialises the allegations by saying that he knows this man and is therefore unwilling to believe them. It is very common to be a bystander, especially when the one accused of crime is influential. If this is how a female member of staff is treated, it is clear that a young player will be extremely vulnerable and helpless in such a climate.”
Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch, said: “This case reminds us of the extent to which sport has not reacted to ‘MeToo’ and has not put in place protection for athletes or addressed the issue of workplace rights. The result is that abuse survivors take a long time to come forward, whether that abuse is sexual, domestic, verbal or physical. Coming forward is all the more difficult when abusers are allowed to move around in sport.”
Stephanie Lopez, meanwhile, told the Telegraph that she was disturbed by Mr. Raonic’s support for Mr. Naor. “I wish I could give Milos the benefit of the doubt and say it was just a careless comment, but it’s exactly what I’d expect someone to say who’s still working with Amit. Those who abuse their power don’t rise in a vacuum. They need followers to turn a blind eye.”
Mr. Raonic, only 29 years old at that time, was ranked 17th in the world after reaching the 2020 Cincinnati Masters finals (losing to Novak Djokovic) and the 2020 Paris Masters semi-finals (losing to Daniil Medvedev). But amid injuries and a backlash against him on social media, Mr. Raonic plummeted down the rankings ladder. He lost in the rounds of 16 to Novak Djokovic at the 2021 Australian Open and to Hubert Hurkacz in Miami. After losing his first round match in Atlanta against 115th-ranked Brandon Nakashima, Raonic did not play an ATP singles match for almost two years, and he basically vanished from the tennis world.
His ATP ranking dropped all the way to 849 in the world until he beat Dennis Novak at Wimbledon this year and Francis Tiafoe and Taro Daniel in Toronto, his last victory on the ATP tour in singles. He lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas in the first round at the 2023 US Open, and his ranking was 318 in the world at time of publication.
Born in Podgorica, Montenegro on Dec. 27, 1990 and raised in suburban Toronto, Mr. Raonic trained in Spain and took up residence in the tax haven of Monte Carlo in 2012, where he was filmed dancing like a madman in a muscle shirt at a party in 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4dpv2emJ4E
But Tennis Canada often selected Raonic to represent Canada at international events. During his career, he earned more than $20 million in prize money. Among his achievements, he beat Roger Federer in 5 sets to reach the 2016 Wimbledon finals, where he lost to Andy Murray; he was ranked in the top 12 between March 2016 and November 2017; and he was number 3 between Nov. 21, 2016 and Jan. 30, 2017. Though he never won a slam, and lost all four of his Masters 1000 finals, he won 8 smaller titles on hard-courts: three in San Jose in 2011, 2012 and 2013; Chennai in 2012; Bangkok 2013; Washington 2014; St. Petersburg 2015 and Brisbane 2016 (beating Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final).
Many Canadians credit Raonic for inspiring a generation of players including Denis Shapovalov, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez. Canadian media have also glorified Mr. Raonic and his parents for launching the Milos Raonic Foundation in 2012 to support disadvantaged children. The foundation reportedly awarded $120,000 in grants to a children’s hospital and $30,000 to the Canadian Paralympic Committee. Raonic also played several charity events to raise money for the foundation.
It’s not known if Mr. Raonic, who claims to currently reside in the Bahamas, has been directly involved in the ongoing lawsuit in Los Angeles.
Mr. Naor, born in Israel, played pro tennis from 1985 to 1991, won 3 matches and lost 7 at the ATP tour level and reached a career high of 245 in 1987. According to various reports, Mr. Naor previously coached Marat Safin and represented Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray early in their careers. (Djokovic left CAA in 2012.) Mr. Naor’s clients included Dominic Thiem, Tomas Berdych, Taylor Fritz, Ernests Gulbis and Bernard Tomic as well as Milos Raonic.
The Telegraph said that Andy Murray’s family, after breaking off with agent Patricio Apey in 2008, made a deal with show biz agent Simon Fuller who then subcontracted CAA and Mr. Naor to handle Andy Murray’s affairs in the tennis industry. But the Telegraph said that “several people close to Murray” didn’t praise the relationship, especially after Mr. Naor came into the dressing room to celebrate with his client Djokovic after he beat his other client Murray in the 2011 Australian Open final.
For years, tennis media didn’t report about the allegations involving Mr. Naor until Daniel Kaplan of Sports Business Journal reported in August 2018 that CAA fired Mr. Naor several months earlier on Oct. 23, 2017 after a 10-week investigation.
Ms. Lopez, then 27 years old, claimed that she went to Steve Heumann, the head of CAA’s tennis division, and accused Mr. Naor, then age 51, of “verbal, emotional and sexual harassment”. The Journal also reported that Ms. Lopez filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in early 2018. Ms. Lopez, who joined CAA in 2013, claimed that Mr. Heumann “empowered my harasser to dictate every element of my employment and daily tasks.” She also said that she “endured multiple incidents of retaliation” from Mr. Heumann after CAA fired Mr. Naor. The Journal reported that Mr. Heumann later assigned Ms. Lopez’s to a different tennis agent at CAA. The Journal also said that a CAA spokesperson denied retaliation, but that CAA did verify some of Ms. Lopez’s complaints against Mr. Naor.
On Feb. 22, 2019, the Daily Beast reported that Ms. Lopez and former CAA agent Rick Montz, who has signed players including Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz, had filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against CAA Sports, its parent company Creative Artists Agency, the former head of the company’s tennis division, Steven Heumann, and agent Amit Naor. Ms. Lopez and Mr. Montz claimed that CAA management damaged their careers and wrongfully terminated Mr. Montz for his allegations against Mr. Naor.
The Daily Beast reported that CAA denied the allegations by saying that they followed their specific policies and processes to protect employees and “uphold the agency’s high standards for a safe, supportive work environment.” Andrew Brettler, an attorney representing CAA, told the Daily Beast that: “Ms. Lopez was subjected to inexcusable behavior at the hands of former CAA agent, Mr. Naor. While the agency could verify some, but not all, of Ms. Lopez’s specific allegations, Mr. Naor was terminated as a result of the investigation.”
According to the Daily Beast, the lawsuit claims that:
—Mr. Naor joined CAA in 2008 and caused three clients, including Andy Murray, to quit the agency due to Mr. Naor’s alleged “lack of professionalism and dishonest financial dealings”.
—Mr. Montz claimed that he had to physically prevent Mr. Naor from assaulting a fellow agent, Matthew Elefant.
—Mr. Naor asked Ms. Lopez for personal favors and berated her handling of a shipment of golf clubs. He allegedly called her a “wet back” and said that he should “strap the golf clubs to Stephanie’s back so that she can drag them to Florida herself.”
—“Naor also took every opportunity to make inappropriate sexual advances on Stephanie, belittle her work with the division, and make lewd and inappropriate comments to Stephanie about her, colleagues, and clients.”
—Mr. Montz claimed that he overheard a conversation on speakerphone in which Mr. Naor told Ms. Lopez “that he was sexually frustrated, he really wanted sex, that he was attracted to her, and that she should rendezvous with him that night.”
—Mr. Naor told Ms. Lopez that she would be fired if she complained to senior managers.
—“Rick (Montz) had observed Naor sexually harassing Stephanie as well as engaging in dishonest business practices, and reported this to CAA Tennis Department Head, Defendant Steven Heumann, who did nothing with this information other than to distance himself from Rick.”
CAA denied this in a statement, according to the Daily Beast. “There is ample evidence that Ms. Lopez and Mr. Montz were heard at every opportunity, their concerns were taken seriously, and CAA left no stone unturned during its investigations into their complaints.”
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The lawsuit claims that these alleged incidents occurred while Mr. Raonic was rising up the rankings and achieving the greatest results in Canadian tennis history at that time.
Mr. Montz claimed that in March 2015, he met with Mr. Heumann, chief of CAA’s tennis division, to warn him that Mr. Naor was sexually harassing Ms. Lopez and hurting the company’s reputation. But Mr. Naor would remain with CAA for three more tennis seasons.
Raonic, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2014 before losing to Roger Federer, came into Wimbledon 2015 seeded 7th. In his second round victory over Tommy Haas, he hit a 145-mph ace, the third-fastest serve ever recorded on Wimbledon grass, only 3 km slower than American Taylor Dent’s record of 148 mph in 2010. But Raonic lost his third round match on Court 2 to 20-year old Nick Kyrgios 5-7 7-5 7-6 (7-3) 6-3.
Tennis media at that time highlighted Kyrgios’ antics. “Kyrgios had clashed with officials in his previous two matches and there was a code violation this time for bouncing his racquet in anger,” reported the BBC. “At one point, he put on an official Wimbledon headband only to be told it was too colourful for the tournament’s all-white clothing policy, so he duly turned it inside out.”
Meanwhile during Wimbledon 2015, Ms. Lopez alleges that Mr. Naor threw a chair at her, leaving her in tears.
In 2016, Raonic achieved the best year ever for a Canadian tennis player, beating almost everyone not named Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray.
He beat Federer in the final to win Brisbane, which would turn out to be Raonic’s last title. At the 2016 Australian Open in Melbourne in late January, Raonic beat former champion Stan Wawrinka in 5 sets, Gael Monfils in 4 sets and then lost an epic semi-final to Murray in 5 sets after apparently straining an adductor muscle in his leg.
Meanwhile, by March 2016, Mr. Naor was sending Ms. Lopez heart and kiss emojis by text while calling her names like “gorgeous” and “darling”, according to the lawsuit. In another exchange, he allegedly told her, “Wow, you’re looking gorgeous. You’ve lost weight but now you need bigger boobs.”
At Indian Wells in 2016, Raonic fought his way to the finals in the California desert before losing to world number one Djokovic 6-2 6-0. Hampered by the adductor injury, Raonic served only four aces and made 27 unforced errors. “It feels similar [to the Australian Open injury] but not as bad,” Raonic said. “It could be frustrating, could not be. Maybe it’s just sort of a mental way of my body protecting.”
Writers at that tournament, notably New York Times’ freelance writer Ben Rothenberg and WTA writer Courtney Nguyen, accused Indian Wells tournament director Raymond Moore of being a “sexist” for reportedly saying: “In my next life when I come back I want to be someone in the WTA because they ride on the coattails of the men. They don’t make any decisions and they are lucky. They are very, very lucky. If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport.”
Mr. Moore, then age 69, reportedly cited Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and Garbine Muguruza of Spain as being among the “attractive prospects” on the tour. “They are physically attractive and competitively attractive,” he said. “They can assume the mantle of leadership once Serena decides to stop. They really have quite a few very, very attractive players.”
Mr. Moore later apologized in a written statement. “I made comments about the WTA that were in extremely poor taste and erroneous,” he said. “I am truly sorry for those remarks, and apologize to all the players and WTA as a whole.”
During that tournament, Mr. Naor and Ms. Lopez were allegedly sitting on a couch at a CAA rented house when Mr. Naor allegedly “proceeded to take off Stephanie’s sock and started massaging Stephanie’s foot,” according to the lawsuit. “Rick and Elefant entered the room and witnessed the scene and then left without saying a word. After Amit finally let go of Stephanie’s foot, he put his foot up onto Stephanie’s leg and said, ‘ok now your turn,’” according to the lawsuit. “Seeing that Stephanie resisted giving him a foot massage, Naor laughed and put his foot back onto the floor.”
A few days later at the 2016 Miami Open, Raonic beat Denis Kudla, Damir Dzumhir and Jack Sock before losing in the quarter-final to Nick Kyrgios. During one of the matches, Mr. Naor and Ms. Lopez were sitting with colleagues in Mr. Raonic’s player box. According to the Daily Beast’s account of the lawsuit, Mr. Naor became enraged that Raonic was losing, and he allegedly slapped Ms. Lopez on the arm. After the match, Ms. Lopez confronted Mr. Naor and asked him “Amit, why did you hit me?” He then allegedly grabbed her upper arms with both hands, shook her and yelled, “Oh my God, you are such a pussy. You are so sensitive, such a pussy.” He then laughed at her.
Raonic, meanwhile, made the quarter-finals in Monte Carlo (losing to Murray); the quarters in Madrid (losing to Djokovic); and the fourth round at Roland Garros, losing to Albert Ramos-Vinolas. In London that summer, Raonic made it all the way to the finals on grass at Queen’s, where he lost again to Murray, one of the greatest grass court players in tennis history.
This set up Raonic’s historic run at Wimbledon 2016. In the round of 16, Raonic came roaring back from two sets down to beat David Goffin. After ousting Sam Querrey in the quarters, Raonic hit 23 aces, won 83 percent of first serve points, and stunned Federer in the semi-final 6-3, 6-7, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. Tennis media noted that Federer was slowed by injury. But it was the greatest victory in Canadian tennis history at that time. Raonic had defeated Federer in the cathedral of tennis.
In the only grand slam final of his career, and playing in front of royalty, Raonic seemed to go into a shell. He hit only 8 aces (and only 1 double fault, compared to 11 against Federer). Murray converted only 1 of 7 break point chances but won both tiebreakers and the match 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 to clinch his second Wimbledon title.
Mr. Raonic’s achievements at the All England Club are even more remarkable considering what was allegedly happening within his team. If Ms. Lopez’s claims are true, Raonic was ascending to the pinnacle of tennis while his agent was sexual harassing Ms. Lopez.
The lawsuit claims that Mr. Naor forced Ms. Lopez to share a bed with him at the CAA premises in London during Wimbledon 2016. “All the beds for the night had been claimed and Naor said that Stephanie had to sleep in a bed with him for the night,” reported the Daily Beast, citing the lawsuit. When Ms. Lopez refused, Mr. Naor exploded in rage and started yelling at her. “No, no, no. You’re not going to sleep on the couch. Come downstairs, you’re sharing with me!”
Ms. Lopez claimed that she reluctantly followed his command and ended up in bed with him but did her best to keep her distance. “Once Naor got under the covers he started to run his feet against Stephanie’s feet. Naor spoke aloud to himself and Stephanie heard him say “no, no, no, I’m not going to cheat. Guilty feeling, guilty feeling, guilty feeling.”
About a month after Wimbledon, Raonic beat Dominic Thiem at the Western and Southern Open in Ohio before losing the semi-finals to eventual champion Andy Murray 6-3, 6-3. But in the second round of the 2016 US Open, Raonic made 15 double-faults and lost in 4 sets to Ryan Harrison. Raonic lost his next match to Mikhail Youzhny in St. Petersburg. He pulled out injured in Beijing, and lost early to Jack Sock in Shanghai and Ricardas Berankis in Basel. He beat Jo Tsonga at the Paris Masters but pulled out with injury instead of facing Murray in the semis. At the ATP Finals, in keeping with the theme of 2016, Raonic held serve but lost all four tie-breakers in defeats to Djokovic and Murray.
In January 2017, Raonic beat Rafa Nadal before losing to Grigor Dimitrov in Brisbane, and then lost to Nadal in straight sets at the quarters of the Australian Open in Melbourne. Injuries continued to haunt him. Raonic beat Juan-Martin del Potro at Delray Beach but pulled out of the final with injury, allowing Jack Sock to win in a walk-over. Raonic was too injured to play Indian Wells. He beat Viktor Troicki in Miami but then pulled out before his match with Jared Donaldson.
During the Miami Open in 2017, Ms. Lopez alleges that Mr. Naor texted her to find out her hotel room in Miami. He then turned up there unannounced. “Once Stephanie answered her hotel room, he saw that she was limping because she had tore a calf muscle at the time. On seeing this, Naor commanded Stephanie to lie face down on the hotel bed. Naor, under pretext that Stephanie required assistance, proceeded to massage Stephanie’s leg,” the lawsuit claimed.
Raonic reached the round of 16 in Madrid; the quarters in Rome; and the fourth round at Roland Garros, losing the fifth set 8-6 to Pablo Carreno-Busta. Then, at Wimbledon 2017, Federer got revenge for the previous year by trouncing Raonic in straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, Mr. Naor allegedly called Ms. Lopez to threaten her over her close friendship with Mr. Montz. He told her if she “remained loyal to Rick, she would risk getting fired.”
In August 2017, according to the lawsuit, Ms. Lopez told CAA tennis chief Heumann that Mr. Naor was sexually harassing her. But Mr. Heumann, according to the lawsuit, told her “Amit is my brother”, “I love him”, and “he has a big heart.”
The Daily Beast, citing the lawsuit, also reported that Mr. Heumann allegedly scolded Ms. Lopez for reporting the harassment, telling her, “Shame on you, I didn’t have to promote you, I didn’t have to give you a raise, I didn’t have to give you a corporate card. Shame on you for coming forward now.”
Ms. Lopez then took her complaints to Howie Nuchow, the head of CAA Sports. He allegedly told her that she was “just taking it out of context.” After that, Mr. Montz allegedly emailed Mr. Nuchow. According to the lawsuit: “Rick was sounding alarm bells as to the way he was being treated because he felt that he was being punished and retaliated against for having supported Stephanie’s sexual harassment report against Naor.”
CAA denied these claims. “Any suggestion that Ms. Lopez and/or Mr. Montz were ignored, brushed off, or punished in any way is absurd and not supported by facts,” CAA said in a statement, according to the Daily Beast.
Amid this turmoil, Raonic fell out of the top 10 and never returned. While CAA was investigating his agent, Raonic either lost in early rounds or pulled out of several tournaments, citing injuries. In August 2017, Raonic hit only one ace and lost his only match at the Canadian Open to Adrian Mannarino. Raonic pulled out of the Cincinnati Masters with injury, missed the US Open, and withdrew from Tokyo after losing the first game against Yuichi Sugita.
After CAA fired Mr. Naor in October 2017, Raonic missed three more months (citing injuries) and then lost his first matches of 2018 in Brisbane and Melbourne. He fell deeper down the rankings ladder in 2018, and even lost in Madrid to a new phenom from Canada, Denis Shapovalov. Raonic skipped the 2018 French Open but made runs to the quarters at Wimbledon and the round of 16 at the US Open, losing both times to John Isner. Citing various injuries, Raonic never did regain the success he enjoyed between 2014 and 2016. In fact, he never won a tournament after Brisbane in January 2016.
In February 2019, CAA shut down its tennis division completely, letting go of Ms. Lopez, other agents, and clients including Genie Bouchard, Taylor Fritz and former US Open champion Marin Cilic, according to the Sports Business Journal.
On Aug. 12, 2019, Stephanie Lopez posted a story on Medium. She claimed that she was “bullied, abused and harassed for five years at CAA Sports then made to feel ashamed for it.”
“I will no longer stand by in silence knowing what I know and having seen what I saw on the inside of one of the most powerful Hollywood agencies in the world. Yeah I’m lookin’ at you, CAA. Warning: I am unfuckwithable. Come at me, bros, this is an open invitation.”
“I know we’re going up against an industry giant, and we stand little to no chance of leaving with our hearts or careers in tact, and all they’ll want to do is defile our voices much like it did our tennis division,” she added. “I’m not OK. I do mind that you’ve portrayed me as a “dumb whore” to the press, CAA. Standing up for Rick Montz is not “blind loyalty,” it is what’s necessary, and it is what’s right. And I will no longer allow you to smear his integrity, nor mine.”
She praised Mr. Montz for fighting to defend her while others turned their backs on him. “Brace yourself, he’s a straight white male in his 40s and well-positioned on the demographic social ladder,” she wrote. She claimed that CAA showed reporters a receipt from an Uber she allegedly took at 2am from the apartment of Mr. Montz. She said this did not prove they had a sexual relationship. “Allow me to quote Joe Biden on this one… Get a life. And for those of you wondering, fair enough, but let me put your creativity to rest: we’ve never ever crossed that line.”
About two months later on Oct. 8, 2019, Ms. Lopez posted another story on Medium about “a system of cover-ups that’s enabled workplace harassment and abuse of power in our industry for a very long time.”
“Entertainment is, for the most part, a lawless, fend-and-figure-it-out-for-yourself industry whose version of checks and balances is to more easily replace anyone who “steps out of line” rather than to embrace their misfit ideas,” she wrote. “Rick and I faced first-hand in 2017 when we raised red flags at CAA, only weeks before the Weinstein dam broke on Hollywood.”
In a third story posted on Oct. 28, 2019, she wrote: “I came forward for sexual harassment in August of 2017, two months before we’d learned anything about Harvey Weinstein, when not a single one of us knew just how far down the rabbit hole we were about to go. Suddenly, years of emotional, physical, verbal and sexual abuse were stacked on the table. Four agents and I had a choice to make similar to the one we’re facing today… when do we stop standing by and start to stand in.”
“Historically, yes, agents are protectors of the problem at large. Guardians of guilt whispering on the edge of legality for the sake of stoking fires and sweeping controversy under the rug for the organization,” she wrote. “Understandably, it hasn’t been a stretch for media to refer to agents as operative cogs in the system of cover-ups. Ultimately, you could say agents antagonize the discovery process. I know from experience, unfortunately.”
She claimed that CAA fired Mr. Montz after 11 years with the agency because he dared to “demand accountability” and asked for an “outside investigation of 10 people to help clarify issues at large.” She slammed CAA for doing internal investigations. “If someone asks you to grade yourself, you’d get an A every time. But it’s a serious problem. There are a set of techniques when a company is trying to conceal something.”
Raonic, meanwhile, has continued to enjoy success on and off the court. After dating model Danielle Knudson for several years, Raonic married Belgian model Camille Ringoir in the spring of 2022, according to her Instagram page.
In the summer of 2023, the National Bank Open in Toronto and the Laver Cup in Vancouver paid special tribute to Raonic, in case it was his last match in those cities. But it’s not clear when he’ll retire. Indeed, Raonic won a Davis Cup singles match for Canada in November before his team lost to Finland.
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