Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Marie Capriati ( born March 29, 1976 in Long Iceland, New York) is a former American tennis player.
Career
Capriati was trained early on by her father Stephano Capriati. In her youth she was coached by Jimmy Evert ( the father of tennis player Chris Evert ). On March 5, 1990, she took at the age of 13 years for the first time in Boca Raton at a WTA tournament. A short time later, she became the youngest player to ever reached a final in professional tennis. At the tournament on Hilton Head she beat Arantxa Sanchez - Vicario with the then number five in the world and failed only in the ending to Martina Navratilova. At this time, Capriati was 13 years and 11 months old. On April 9, 1990, she appeared as number 25 on the world rankings for the first time.
Your first title she won in Puerto Rico, as they defeated in the final Zina Garrison. Capriati was it the fourth youngest player to have won a title. This led for the first time in the top ten of the WTA rankings. The year 1990, she finished as number 8 in the world. In 1991, she reached the semifinals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. 1992 was followed by a peak of her career when she defeated in Barcelona at the Olympic Games in the game for gold Steffi Graf.
Then followed a number of low points in their lives. She was caught in December 1993 at a shoplifting and arrested in Miami in 1994 for possession of marijuana. Only in 1996, she returned to the tour. In 2000 she won the first tournament after her return to the tennis stage. In 2001, she then won the Australian Open and the French Open her first Grand Slam tournaments. In the same year she was honored with the Athlete of the Year Award from the Associated Press. 2002 was Capriati repeat their triumph in Australia. In the same year she was named World Sportswoman of the Year. In her career she won a prize money of over 10 million U.S. dollars.
From November 2004 Capriati played no tournament. Their last match they played in Philadelphia, where she was eliminated in the quarter-finals with 0:6 and 1:6 against Russian Vera Swonarjowa. Without explicitly declare their resignation, Capriati did not return due to persistent back problems back on the WTA Tour.
Especially at her favorite tournament, the U.S. Open, Capriati defeated several times in a dramatic way. At the only Grand Slam tournament where in the deciding set tie-break is played, the American was defeated in the semifinals four times, including three times in the tiebreak of the third set - 1991 against Monica Seles in 2003 against Justine Henin and 2004 against Elena Dementieva.
In 2012, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
2013, it is alleged assault and stalking in court.