Jennifer Capriati

Jennifer Capriati's career is one of sport's great cautionary-then-redemptive arcs. A teenage prodigy crowned too early, Olympic gold at sixteen in Barcelona, then the burnout and the wilderness years, and finally that astonishing comeback, three Grand Slams and world No. 1 in her mid-twenties. I find the second act far more compelling than the first. Anyone can win when everything is easy; resurrecting yourself after the world wrote you off takes a different kind of nerve. Her Hall of Fame induction feels less like a reward for talent than for resilience, which is why she stays with me.

Name (English)

Jennifer Capriati

Name (Japanese)

ジェニファー・カプリアティ

Reading

じぇにふぁー・かぷりあてぃ

Born

March 29, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Height

170 cm

Occupation

tennis player

Awards & achievements

• 2001 Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year
• 2002 Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year
• 2002 Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award
• International Tennis Hall of Fame
• 2001 Associated Press Athlete of the Year

• Xhttps://x.com/JenCapriati
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Capriati
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11680

Tags

• New York
• tennis player

Last updated

2026-06-17

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