Jennifer Capriati

Tennis

You could lose count of the “youngest-ever” records Capriati clocked up during her career, but hers is a classic tale of too much too young. Her professional debut came aged 13 in 1990 and she reached the French Open semi-final in her first grand slam appearance that same year. Capriati remains the youngest to reach the top 10 (aged 14) and won Olympic gold in 1992 at 15. Just 18 months later though, the exhausted American took an extended break from the tour, in which time she was arrested for shoplifting and drug possession and entered rehab. She eventually came back in the late Nineties and, in 2001, won her first grand slam, one of three singles titles before her 2004 retirement.