Word: burnouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invariable caution raised about allowing young players onto the professional tour is that they may be subject to premature burnout, either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing...