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Photo Tour: Tennis Girl Phenoms and Rising Stars

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Tracy Austin at Age 17 at Wimbledon

Tracy Austin at Age 17 at WimbledonTony Duffy / Getty Images
This photo of Tracy Austin, age 17, at Wimbledon in 1980 raises all kinds of questions: Is that a piece of a tree she's holding? Won't those pigtails swing around and whack her in the face? Isn't that snowball going to make a mess all over the grass when she hits it? Tracy reached at least one quarterfinal of each major, and she won the US Open in 1981.

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