At 13 years old, Jennifer Capriati was already the youngest player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal. By 14, she was a top-10 ranked pro with multi-million dollar endorsement deals from Oil of Olay and Snapple. By 18, she was arrested at a run-down Florida motel with drugs in the room. This week, Kevin and Jeff Hall break down one of the most remarkable rise-fall-and-redemption stories in sports history.

Inside this episode: how Stefano Capriati turned his daughter into a commodity almost from the moment she could hold a racket, why her father quit his job to become her full-time manager before she was even a teenager, and the immense pressure that led Jennifer to tell the New York Times she saw a "distorted image" in the mirror. The Hall brothers dig into the 1994 Gables Inn arrest, her 28-day stint in rehab, and the ranking collapse that sent her tumbling to #267 in the world.

Then comes the comeback. Kevin and Jeff cover Capriati's stunning run to two Australian Open titles and a French Open championship, her ascent to world #1, and the 2002 Australian Open final where she saved four match points to win. They also look at the setbacks that followed retirement — a 2010 hospitalization and a 2013 battery charge — before her ultimate redemption: induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

It's a story about a childhood traded for a tennis racket, a family that saw a payday instead of a daughter, and one of the great comeback stories in sports.

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