Former child prodigy Zhang Xinyang blames his parents' relentless pressure for why he now prefers to be jobless and spend his ...

We grow up believing that greatness reveals itself early. The chess prodigy, the child violinist, the teenage Olympian—these stories dominate our imagination. We assume that to be the best, you have ...

NOVAK DJOKOVIC first picked up a tennis racket when he was four years old. At the age of 12 he left his native Serbia for a tennis academy in Germany. He won his first major title—the 2008 Australian ...

Treated brutally, she went from celebrated child star to 15-year-old “burned-out candle.” Against the odds, she later resumed ...