Not a highly touted junior prospect, she had planned to enroll in college before her tennis successes mounted, catapulting her faster and further than she was prepared to handle. “Not expecting it, I felt like I was thrown into this machine, and I didn’t understand how it worked,” she said. Marino stepped back from the sport for the first time in 2012, taking seven months off. After returning for several months, she retired in February 2013 at age 22. “When I look back, I wouldn’t necessarily say it was depression,” she said of her decision to stop playing.

Source: New York Times January 10, 2019 01:03 UTC