Her suitcase was packed with two types of clothes: those to play tennis in and those to hit the town in. That was the original plan when Bethanie Mattek went to the Australian Open in 2004.

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.