Austin was forced to retire quite abruptly due to a series of injuries and ultimately a car accident. But since retiring in 1994, she has not left the world of tennis and has instead contributed her deep knowledge of the sport to NBC and the USA network as a commentator for the French Open and the US Open. On top of this, she is a regular broadcaster on the Australian Open and the BBC’s coverage of Wimbledon.
In 2010, she joined the US Open team on the Tennis Channel and has been covering the Rogers Cup on Canadian TV since 2004.
Jane Fonda – Now
Jane is still taking the world by storm and producing work out videos, this time for a more fitting crowd for her age group- an older one. The now 80-year-old looks phenomenal and we think it’s safe to attribute her good looks to her lifelong commitment to fitness.
In 2010, she released two videos, this time on DVD. Besides her career as a fitness instructor, she has also dabbled a bit in the acting world and as a political activist.
Tracy Austin – Then
Tracy Austin comes from a family of professional tennis players so it was not a question at all that she would take up the sport as a young child. In her arsenal of awards, she has three Grand Slam titles, one each from the 1979 and 1981 US Opens and the mixed doubles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1980.
Additionally, she is the youngest person ever to win the US Open female singles champion in history since 1979 and is the youngest person to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. That’s pretty impressive!
Sharon Bruneau – Then
She began her career as a successful model, until a bad case of pneumonia led her to lose a lot of weight. After recovering from the illness, she began to lift weights in order to put on weight and go back to modeling. Hoping to go back to modeling, she was then rejected by modeling agencies for her new “larger” frame.
So, Sharon decided to try her luck at bodybuilding and found great success, appearing on the covers of Muscle & Fitness and Flex. Weider Health and Fitness publications signed her on as their first ever female representative from 1991-1998.
Sharon Bruneau – Now
Sharon retired from bodybuilding after the 1994 Ms. Olympia contest and switched instead to fitness competitions but shortly left that a year later. She has held small roles in films including Paste.
Nowadays, she can be found inspiring others through motivational workshops in which she discusses how health and fitness impacted her life.