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| Capriati gives heart to retirees |
June, 26th 2009
Wimbledon
Giving heart to post-2009 tour retirees Marat Safin and Fabrice Santoro, Jennifer Capriati has told a New York radio show that she's enjoying her
time out of the spotlight.
"This is a great time for me," says the 33-year-old. "Life goes on after tennis."
Capriati was forced to retire from the tour in November 2006 when the protected world No.10 ranking she'd been granted due to a right shoulder injury
expired.
"I miss it terribly because this is something I've done my entire life and it came at a little bit of an unexpected time," she told Sports Radio
66AM in an interview promoting HSBC's Wimbledon in New York site.
"I'm just making the transition of not playing tennis anymore and trying to get healthy and be on the other side."
Child star Capriati, whose turbulent career kept her in the headlines, said she never regretted her life as a professional athlete.
"It's one of the greatest things I could ever dream of happening to me. I had so many great experiences molding who I am and to look back on my
career and to know I’ve accomplished what I have done – I would never trade my spot for anything else," she said. "I had so many different careers.
You could say the Gold Medal in Barcelona was one – to experience that so young was phenomenal. Then I came back and had redemption and won my first
Grand Slam."
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