Jennifer Capriati biography
Jennifer Capriati, in full Jennifer Maria Capriati, (born March 29, 1976, New York, New York, U.S.), American tennis participant who first achieved success as a teenage prodigy. Her play later suffered amid varied private points, however she staged a comeback, profitable the Australian Open (2001 and 2002) and the French Open (2001).
Capriati was born in New York City and lived in Spain till age 4, when her household moved to Florida in order that she might pursue a tennis profession. She shortly attracted consideration along with her innate expertise and bubbly character. By the time she turned skilled in 1990, she had earned greater than $6 million in endorsements. During her first 12 months on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour, Capriati set plenty of information, together with changing into the youngest participant to achieve the semifinals at a Grand Slam occasion (the French Open) and to win a match at Wimbledon. In late 1990 she received her first skilled title, the Puerto Rico Open, and completed the 12 months ranked within the WTA prime 10—the youngest participant ever to take action. With highly effective strokes and unbelievable consistency, Capriati continued to impress in 1991, reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon and on the U.S. Open. In 1992 she defeated Steffi Graf to seize a gold medal on the Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
The pressures {of professional} play and her mother and father’ divorce, nonetheless, started to take their toll on Capriati. After an surprising first-round loss on the U.S. Open in 1993, she took a break from the tour. Her troubles continued, nonetheless, as she was arrested for shoplifting and later for possession of marijuana; she was not convicted in both case. Though she returned to the tour in 1994, she lacked dedication, was not in form, and confronted intense media scrutiny. Playing effectively solely sporadically, Capriati managed to win only one match at a Grand Slam event between 1994 and 1998.
In 1999 Capriati devoted herself to getting match and that 12 months claimed her first title since 1993. She completed 1999 ranked quantity 23 on the earth, and the next 12 months—along with her father as her coach—Capriati climbed within the rankings to quantity 14. At the 2001 Australian Open, in her first Grand Slam last, she upset top-seeded Martina Hingis 6–4, 6–3. With that victory Capriati entered the highest 10 for the primary time in seven years. Her comeback continued on the French Open. Two factors from defeat, she rallied to beat Kim Clijsters in a three-set thriller (1–6, 6–4, 12–10) to take the title. Her bid for a Grand Slam (profitable all 4 main occasions in a single 12 months), nonetheless, ended with a semifinal loss at Wimbledon. Capriati efficiently defended her Australian Open title in 2002 with a dramatic come-from-behind victory over Hingis, however a sequence of wrist and shoulder accidents sidelined her after the 2004 season, and, regardless of a number of surgical procedures, she was unable to return to skilled play. In 2012 Capriati was chosen for induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.