Guillermo Vilas Junior, the youngest son of the former tennis player, had his birthday and celebrated it with his family. It was his mother Phiang Vilas, who shared images of the moment in which the little one, who is 7 years old, blew out the candles on his cake.
Guillermo Jr., the son of Guillermo Vilas, turned 7 years old. Photo IG.
“Happy birthday my love 💗” Phiang wrote in the post, where he included images of his little one in front of the birthday cake. The child looks happy, looking at the cake covered in chocolate and decorated with a light blue candle, a number 7 and some raspberries.
Guillermo Jr., the son of Guillermo Vilas, turned 7 years old. Photo IG. Guillermo Jr., the son of Guillermo Vilas, in the arms of his father. Photo IG.
In another of the images that the Thai woman shared, The child appears surrounded by the arms of his father, apparently, who has not appeared on social networks for several months.
It is worth remembering that Guillermo Vilas (71), who knew how to be the most successful in the history of Argentine tennis and who, in addition to Guillermo Junior, is the father of three daughters, suffers from Alzheimer’s-like cognitive decline, as was known a couple of years ago. And it is his wife, the Thai Phiang, who takes care of him and protects him.
This is how Guillermo Vilas looks today: the last photo shared by Phiang, his wife
It was in mid-2023 when Phiang Vilas published a tender image with her husband, Guillermo Vilaswhich was filled with likes and comments full of affection towards the great athlete.
On both her Instagram and Twitter accounts, the Willy’s unconditional partner revealed what her husband looks like and shared it with her followers.
Phiang and Guillermo Vilas, in a photo that the Thai woman published last year.
“Thank you for the photo, the greatest ever,” said one user. Another added: “How nice and exciting to see my idol!!!😢 “Thank you for taking such good care of him.”“Guillermo we are with you and your family❤️”. In this loving tone, the hundreds of comments that the post received follow one another.
Phiang is, among many things, the window to the greatest idol of Argentine tennis with his fas. She also cares for him, lives attentively to him and posts on her Instagram account those moments in which the mental illness she suffers from -Vilas suffers from cognitive impairment similar to Alzheimer’s- gives him a break. Although the crack is stable, the Disease progression is inevitable.
Without a doubt, it turns out touching see again 71 year old crackyes, always surrounded by the love of his wife and 4 children.
How is Guillermo Vilas
“Vilas is not the Vilas of before, the verbose, the poet, the one who drew a rainbow with vowels and consonants,” the newspaper Olé said a while ago, referring to the situation of the former tennis player. On August 17th he turned 71 years old, and his cognitive deterioration is becoming more and more evident. This situation keeps him away from public life, in Monaco, where he settled with his family. AND Phiangphathu Khumueang, his wife, became his unconditional companion at this complicated time in his life. She is always by his side.
Vilas with his family, on the day he turned 70 in 2022. Photo IG.
The best Argentine tennis player of all time, winner of 64 ATP titles, four of them Grand Slam, and Nadal’s great rival for years in statistics for being the player with the most wins on clay, “He suffers from memory loss, he sometimes even ignores his friends, he has some moments of lucidity but he is not fully aware of what is happening around him.”
The story of a love
Since 2005, Vilas has been married to Thai woman Phiangphathu Khumueang, who is three decades younger than him.whom he met in a Bangkok shopping center and with whom he fell madly in love.
Phiang Vilas with his children: Andanin, Intila, Ladinlao and little William Jr.
More than a decade and a half ago, in 2000, Vilas was in Thailand, walking through the Mahboonkrong Center, the most important shopping center in Bangkok. Coincidentally, Phiangphathu Khumueang was walking there, with a white dress among so many girls in jeans, and caught his attention. He fell in love instantly.
Later in an interview he commented: “When we met, she didn’t know who I was. She thought I was a lumberjack and that he had a lot of cows. Until she saw my shoes and then she realized that I wasn’t a lumberjack.”
Phiang and Guillermo Vilas when they married in 2005. Photo IG.
They married on May 16, 2005 in the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes parish, in the Belgrano neighborhood.after going through the civil registry and the Thai embassy in Buenos Aires.
They have four children: Andanin, born in 2003 in Paris; Lalindao, in January 2010, in Miami; Intila, in December 2010, in Buenos Aires; and Guillermo, who was born in Monaco in April 2017.
Phiang often shares moments of Vilas with his children on his Instagram account, especially when he plays tennis with them. Andanin is one of Vilas’ weaknesses: he plays tennis, competed in the Under 14 category and even made his debut on the central court of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club in July 2014.
That 2000, Vilas traveled to Thailand to seek a little peace. And life wanted her to cross paths with Phiang, whose name means “The Beautiful Sea.” Today she, without a doubt, is his peace in the midst of that mental whirlwind that little by little is taking away the verbose tennis player he once knew how to be.
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