"It allows players to have somewhere to go, grow up, mature, become physically stronger, have some type of responsibility outside of just tennis," Noel said, "and then give pro tennis a shot." ...

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 ...