Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Capriati made her professional debut in 1990 at the age of 13 years 11 months when Jennifer Capriati reached the finals of the hard court tournament in Boca Raton Florida losing there to Gabriela Sabatini. Shortly after Capriati was sidelined with right Achilles tendonitis in April and an elbow injury in June. Playing style
Capriati was one of the first "power players" to emerge on the women's circuit in the early-to-mid-1990s along with Monica Seles Lindsay Davenport and Mary Pierce.

Capriati won 14 professional singles tournaments during her career along with one women's doubles championship. On July 14 2012 Capriati was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She also won the French Open that year claiming the number one ranking in October.