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.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

I started tennis around age 2.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

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.

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.