I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.
Tracy Austin

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.
Tracy Austin

I started tennis around age 2.
Tracy Austin

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
Tracy Austin

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.
Tracy Austin

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
Tracy Austin

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.
Tracy Austin

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.
Tracy Austin