Australian tennis coach Nick Philippoussis has suffered a massive stroke in a US jail and will likely never face trial on charges he sexual assaulted two young girls he trained in California.
A San Diego judge was told on Thursday, local time, 68-year-old Philippoussis, the father of former world top 10 Australian player Mark Philippoussis, is catatonic after a stroke and has been hospitalised for weeks and is not expected to recover.
Philippoussis has been in custody since his shock arrest in July for allegedly sexually abusing the two nine-year-old girls, but with his health so dire Judge Michael Washington agreed to lift the $US9.2 million bail (A$11.7m) and set a hearing in June to check his condition.
