At one point or another, every player in the field at the Boyd Tinsley USTA Women’s Pro Tennis Championships made a life-changing decision. Essentially, Kimberly Couts made her career choice at the ripe age of 7.

A decade ago, the knee injury that all athletes dreaded was the torn anterior cruciate ligament. Today, it’s been replaced by a scarier one — an injury that requires microfracture surgery.