Tarini Panidepu, 11

“Serena [Williams] — I grew up watching her. I always liked her. I liked her playing style, I liked the emotion she shows. People will tell you to keep it all in, to be “cool.” She wears her emotions on her sleeve, but not in a way that’s self-destructive. Instead of showing your anger, like smashing your racket, she puts that into her game and it makes her game better. She uses that as fuel. Just from watching her game as a kid has helped me learn to use that emotion to fuel my game rather than getting frustrated and screw up my game. You’ll never catch me smashing my racket.”