Tracy Ann Austin Holt was born on December 12,1962 and is an American former world No 1 tennis player.
32 Facts About Tracy Austin
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Tracy Austin possessed a solid baseline game, with a strong flat-hit forehand and reliable two-handed backhand.
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Tracy Austin's favorite shot was the backhand down the line and she considered her backhand to be more powerful and accurate than her forehand.
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Tracy Austin had excellent court coverage and struck the ball deep, with substantial pace, and with pinpoint accuracy.
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Tracy Austin's first serve was a mid-paced high percentage shot that functioned well on all playing surfaces, and although her second serve has been described as lacking penetration, she rarely double faulted.
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In January 1977, a month after turning fourteen, Tracy Austin won her first professional singles title, defeating Stacy Margolin at the Avon Futures event in Portland.
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Less than two months before her sixteenth birthday, Tracy Austin turned professional in October 1978.
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Tracy Austin followed up with tournament wins in Tokyo and Washington, defeating Martina Navratilova in both finals.
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Tracy Austin defeated 35-year-old Billie Jean King in the quarterfinals of the 1979 Wimbledon Championships, then lost to Navratilova in straight sets in the semifinals.
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Tracy Austin then became the youngest ever US Open champion, aged 16 years and 9 months, by defeating second-seeded Navratilova in the semifinals and first-seeded Chris Evert in the final.
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Tracy Austin lost in the semifinals of both Grand Slam tournaments she played in 1980.
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Tracy Austin was ranked the world No 1 singles player in 1980 for two weeks and then for 19 weeks, partly because she captured the two tour-ending events.
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Tracy Austin defeated Navratilova to win the Avon Championships in March and Andrea Jaeger to capture the 1980 Colgate Series Championships in January 1981.
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In 1980, Tracy Austin won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title with her brother John, becoming the first brother and sister team to win a Grand Slam title together.
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Tracy Austin defeated Pam Shriver in the final of the Wells Fargo Open in San Diego, and three weeks later, she beat both Navratilova and Evert in straight sets to win the Canadian Open in Toronto.
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Navratilova ended Tracy Austin's winning streak in the final of the US Indoor Championships.
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In Europe during the autumn, Tracy Austin lost to Sue Barker in the quarterfinals of the Brighton International in Brighton, United Kingdom, but recovered the following week to defeat Navratilova in the final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, West Germany.
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At the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, Tracy Austin was seeded second but lost to sixth-seeded Shriver in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
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Tracy Austin won the tournament with a three-set defeat of Navratilova.
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Tracy Austin was the first opponent of Steffi Graf when the German made her professional debut at the 1982 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart.
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Several weeks later Tracy Austin won her 30th and final top-level singles title in San Diego.
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Tracy Austin had a good showing at the 1982 season-ending Toyota Series Championships where she defeated Jaeger, the world No 3, in straight sets to reach the semifinals.
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Tracy Austin played sporadically from 1984 to 1987 and tried yet another comeback on the tour in 1988 when she played in seven doubles tournaments, and in 1989, when she played in one doubles and two singles tournaments.
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In 1992, Tracy Austin became the youngest person to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, at the age of 29.
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Tracy Austin attempted a second comeback in 1993 and 1994 but was not particularly successful.
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However, in 1994, her results were not as promising and at the Evert Cup in Indian Wells, California, Tracy Austin lost in the second round to Steffi Graf, and Tracy Austin soon retired in June 1994.
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Tracy Austin is the sister-in-law of fitness author Denise Austin, who is married to Jeff.
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Tracy Austin is married to Scott Holt and is the mother of three sons: Sean, Brandon, and Dylan.
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Since retiring as a player, Tracy Austin has worked as a commentator for NBC and the USA Network for the French Open and the US Open.
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Tracy Austin began working for the Tennis Channel in 2010 and joined its US Open team and later its Australian Open team in 2012.
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Tracy Austin has worked for Canadian television for its coverage of the Rogers Cup since 2004.
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Austin is the focus of David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart", a book review of Austin's ghostwritten memoir Beyond Center Court, lacerating the work for using generic, bland cliches of sports autobiographies to hide the genuinely compelling and tragic story of Austin's career.