Aged 15, Matthew traveled to LA to live with his father John Bennett Perry, a prominent actor who portrayed the rugged sailor in Old Spice advertisements. Tennis went by the wayside as he understood he'd never be the next Jimmy Connors, and the boy refocused his goals on his father's job. "I thought, 'We've got an issue here. He's good. There's another generation shot to hell!'," Perry senior later told a reporter, recalling his son's first performance at school.After graduating fr...