Capriati Coming Back

Tue., Feb. 6, 1996

New York Times

Jennifer Capriati, the troubled tennis player who beat Steffi Graf to win the Olympic gold medal in 1992, is scheduled to make her first tournament appearance since November 1994 in the Paris Open next week.

“She feels ready to play,” said Barbara Perry, Capriati’s agent. Perry said Capriati had asked for, and was granted, a wild-card entry into the main draw.

The tournament begins next Tuesday.

Capriati, 19, left the women’s pro tour after losing in the first round of the U.S. Open in 1993. Later, she dropped out of school and was arrested in the spring of 1994 for marijuana possession. After treatment in two drug rehabilition clinics, she attempted a comeback at a tournament in Philadelphia in November 1994. She lost in the first round to Anke Huber and has not played since.

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