Former tennis World No 1 Jennifer Capriati has been summoned to appear in court on April 17 to face allegations she stalked an ex-boyfriend and punched him on Valentine&rsquo;s Day. <img alt="Jennifer Capriati" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/mar/Jennifer_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 709px;" /> Jennifer Capriati 36-year-old Capriati was charged with stalking and with battery over an alleged incident on February 14 in which she had an altercation with Ivan Brannan at the Oxygen Health &amp; Wellness gym in North Palm Beach, Florida, court records show. A police report said that while Brannan was working out, Capriati &ldquo;started screaming&rdquo; at him and punched him four times in the chest &ldquo;with a closed fist.&rdquo; After a yoga instructor intervened, Brannan locked himself in the men&rsquo;s locker room and called emergency services. He told police Capriati had been harassing him since they broke up in February 2012. They had been dating for more than a year. The three-time Grand Slam champion, who won Olympic gold in Barcelona in 1992, has not been arrested.u00a0A publicist for Capriati has dismissed as an &ldquo;over-exaggeration&rdquo; the facts in the police report based on Brannan&rsquo;s account. Capriati&rsquo;s career has been overshadowed by personal problems, including incidents of shoplifting and drugs.u00a0She was charged with cannabis possession in 1994 and spent time in a drug rehabilitation clinic before struggling to return to the game. In 2010, she survived a prescription drug overdose.

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