NCAA champion Alexa Noel‘s debut as a professional tennis player arrives next week at the U.S. Open – a decade after she went to Flushing Meadows with a racket in hand for the first time.

When she was about 11, the now-21-year-old American recalled, she was invited to a camp run by the U.S. Tennis Association at the site of the year’s last Grand Slam tournament. Read More