Throughout high school, he competed in junior tennis and enjoyed some intermittent success.

He played junior tennis at regional level, and is a member of the Bunbury Cricket Club.

Mauresmo, 27, and Dechy, 28, grew up playing junior tennis against each other, and they remain close friends.

Ričardas Berankis was the defending champion but, no longer competing in junior tennis, did not defend his title.

If I were commissioner of tennis, I'd make 90 percent of junior tennis be played on clay.

Even in junior tennis with all the attention, money, media, television and travel, it is easy to get an inflated sense of personal importance.

"We don't have enough clinical data, but the larger concern is what's happening in juniors, junior tennis, junior football," Hainline said.

But for someone carrying around the kind of expectations Agassi was, playing junior tennis was an utterly no-win situation.

Annika Beck was the 2012 champion, but is no longer eligible to compete in junior tennis, and thus cannot defend her title.

Morgan knows how difficult the path from junior tennis to men's is.