Victoria Duval, along with boxer Claressa Shields, football phenom Sam Gordon and budding basketball star Jaden Newman, is part of the "Voices of the Future" panel at the espnW: Women + Sports Summit. Here are five things you need to know about the 19-year-old tennis player.
1. Duval was born in Miami but spent her early childhood in Haiti. When she was 7, she was held captive at gunpoint by robbers at her aunt's house in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The family moved to the United States when she was 8. Her father, Jean-Maurice, was buried alive -- but survived -- in the 2010 earthquake in his native Haiti. He had stayed behind to help run a medical clinic.
2. Duval, who started playing tennis when she was 7, made her Grand Slam debut as a 16-year-old at the 2012 US Open. She was eliminated in the first round by three-time US Open champion Kim Clijsters. As a 17-year-old, Duval won her first Grand Slam match, beating former champion Samantha Stosur in a three-set thriller at the 2013 US Open in Louis Armstrong Stadium.
3. After winning three qualifying matches at Wimbledon in 2014, Duval was victorious in her first main-draw match at the All England Club, defeating 29th-seeded Sorana Cirstea. After falling to Belinda Bencic in the second round, Duval announced she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma during the Wimbledon qualifying tournament. "Being on court provided me with much comfort," she said while announcing she would be taking a leave from tennis to battle the disease.
4. Duval achieved a career-high ranking of 87 following her 2014 Wimbledon success. She is currently ranked 652nd and -- cancer free! -- returned to competitive tennis in August.
5. Duval is working on her memoir, which details her three months of chemotherapy and recovery from cancer. It is due out in the fall of 2016. What may or may not be included in the memoir is her rare and exceptional talent for doing "Looney Tunes" impressions.
