TENNIS: JenCap is Back!
Jennifer Capriati has put the past behind her once and for all as she joins an elite group at the top of women's tennis. Capriati defeated 3 of the top 4 players in the world enroute to her first Grand Slam title at the 2000 Australian Open.
Eleven years since her first Grand Slam semifinal appearance, as a 14-year-old teenage prodigy, Jennifer Capriati is back. The dark days in her past "seems like another life".
A life that she doesn't like to talk about. As a Grand Slam champion at the age of 24, Capriati has now earned the right to look forward to her "new life" and much more success.
With the Australian Open win, Capriati will move up to No. 7 in the world, her highest ranking since the comeback (her highest ranking was No. 6 in 1991). Capriati's best-ever showing in a Grand Slam event was the semifinals at the French Open in 1990, Wimbledon in 1991 and Australia last year where she lost to eventual winner Lindsay Davenport.
In winning her first Grand Slam title, Capriati defeated 4-time champion #4 Monica Seles 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, defending champion #2 Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 6-4 and 3-time champion #1 Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3. Always a sentimental favorite, Capriati is "so happy" with life in general that you can't help but be happy for her.
Under the tutelage of coach and dad Stefano, Capriati has been working hard to get back to the top and is in the best shape of her life. She always had good power and an awesome forehand, but now fitter and stronger, she runs down more balls and hits lethal groundstrokes off both sides. An overwhelming combination from one of the first to play "big babe tennis".
An inspired and determined Capriati is playing with "a wave of confidence", and that spells bad news for all the other Top 10 players. Instead of the Williams sisters or Martina Hingis making front-page headlines, Capriati has stolen the show in Australia. Granted Seles and Davenport may not have been on top of their "A" game, and an exhausted Hingis couldn't muster any more after defeating both William's sisters, put Capriati earned her first Grand Slam title in style. She was pushed to 3 sets only twice in the tournament, and lost only 7 games in each of her last 2 matches.
For Capriati, it "hasn't sunk in yet" but she's on top of the world. She's happy, she's healthy, she's got a Grand Slam trophy to add to her Olympic Gold, and she's back.
A life that she doesn't like to talk about. As a Grand Slam champion at the age of 24, Capriati has now earned the right to look forward to her "new life" and much more success.
With the Australian Open win, Capriati will move up to No. 7 in the world, her highest ranking since the comeback (her highest ranking was No. 6 in 1991). Capriati's best-ever showing in a Grand Slam event was the semifinals at the French Open in 1990, Wimbledon in 1991 and Australia last year where she lost to eventual winner Lindsay Davenport.
In winning her first Grand Slam title, Capriati defeated 4-time champion #4 Monica Seles 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, defending champion #2 Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 6-4 and 3-time champion #1 Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3. Always a sentimental favorite, Capriati is "so happy" with life in general that you can't help but be happy for her.
Under the tutelage of coach and dad Stefano, Capriati has been working hard to get back to the top and is in the best shape of her life. She always had good power and an awesome forehand, but now fitter and stronger, she runs down more balls and hits lethal groundstrokes off both sides. An overwhelming combination from one of the first to play "big babe tennis".
An inspired and determined Capriati is playing with "a wave of confidence", and that spells bad news for all the other Top 10 players. Instead of the Williams sisters or Martina Hingis making front-page headlines, Capriati has stolen the show in Australia. Granted Seles and Davenport may not have been on top of their "A" game, and an exhausted Hingis couldn't muster any more after defeating both William's sisters, put Capriati earned her first Grand Slam title in style. She was pushed to 3 sets only twice in the tournament, and lost only 7 games in each of her last 2 matches.
For Capriati, it "hasn't sunk in yet" but she's on top of the world. She's happy, she's healthy, she's got a Grand Slam trophy to add to her Olympic Gold, and she's back.
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