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Article: At 14, Jennifer Capriati was a millionaire tennis sensation. At 16, she was a drug-user, shoplifter and binge-eater. Now she's 24, and she may be about to win Wimbledon
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Of all the photographs of sporting idols down on their luck - from
the Olympic champion Jesse Owens racing against horses, to doorman
Joe Louis gratefully pocketing dollar tips outside a Las Vegas
casino, to a drug-addicted, grotesquely bloated Diego Maradona, to
Sebastian Coe electioneering for the Conservative Party - none is
quite as sad as the one taken seven years ago, in Coral Gables,
Florida, by the Dade County Police Department.
It featured a lumpen, sullen Jennifer Capriati, the former tennis
prodigy, who in 1990 had reached the semi-final of the French Open
aged 14 years and two months; who weeks later became the youngest
player ever seeded at Wimbledon; who, the following ...