Andre Agassi

At 54 years old, Andre Agassi has this physical status:

Professional career

Agassi turned professional at the age of 16 and appeared in his first tournament in La Quinta, California, where he was representing himself. He won his first match against John Austin but then lost his second match to Mats Wilander. Agassi was ranked No. 1 in 1986 by the end of 1986. 91. In 1987, he captured his first top-level singles title at the Sul American Open in Itaparica, where he ended the year ranked No. 1 and ended the year ranked No. 1. 25. In 1988, he won six more tournaments (Memphis, United States Clay Court Championships, Forest Hills WCT, Stuttgart Outdoor, Volvo International, and Livingston Open) and by December of that year, he had surpassed US$1 million in career prize money after playing in just 43 tournaments, the first one to reach that level. He set the open-era record for most consecutive victories by a male teen in 1988 (a record that stood for 17 years before Rafael Nadal broke it in 2005). He was ranked No. 2nd in the year-end poll. Mats Wilander, second-ranked Ivan Lendl, and second-ranked Mats Wilander, are among the third-ranked Ivan Lendl and top-ranked Mats Wilander. Agassi was voted the Most Improved Player of the Year for 1988 by both the Association of Tennis Professionals and Tennis Magazine.

Agassi, who later became his first grand Slam event) for the first eight years of his career, did not want to play in Wimbledon because of the event's traditionalism, particularly the event's "predominantly white" dress code to which participants must adhere, in addition to not participating in the tournament.

Agassi was quickly tipped as the future Grand Slam champion after a strong showing on the tour. He reached the semi-finals of both the French Open and US Open in 1988 and 1989 as a youth. He began the 1990s with a string of near-misses. He reached his first Grand Slam final in 1990 at the French Open, where he was favored before losing in four sets to Andrés Gómez, who later attributed his wig falling off during the match to worries about his wig falling off during the match. Boris Becker, the defending champion of the US Open, advanced to his second Grand Slam final of the year, defeating him in the semi-finals. Pete Sampras was his opponent in the final, a year ago; Agassi had shocked Sampras, but he told his manager that he felt sorry for Sampras because he was never going to make it as a pro. Agassi lost the US Open final to Sampras in three sets. These two American players' feud with the rest of the decade dominated tennis. Agassi ended 1990 on a high note as he helped the United States win their first Davis Cup in eight years and claimed his first Tennis Masters Cup title, defeating Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg in the final.

Agassi won his second straight French Open final in 1991, where he met fellow Bollettieri Academy alumnus Jim Courier. In a five-set final, Courier emerged the victor. Agassi decided to play at Wimbledon in 1991, sparking weeks of rumors about the clothes he would wear in the media. He was eventually selected in a completely white outfit for the first round. He made it to the quarterfinals on that day before losing in five sets to David Wheaton.

Agassi's Grand Slam tournament debut came at Wimbledon, not at the French Open or the US Open, where he had previously excelled. In 1992, he defeated Goran Ivanievi in a five-set final. Agassi defeated two Wimbledon champions, Boris Becker and John McEnroe, along the way. Before Lleyton Hewitt ten years ago, no other baseliner would win Wimbledon until Lleyton Hewitt. In 1992, Agassi was named the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year. Agassi appeared on the Davis Cup winning team in the United States once more in 1992. It was their second Davis Cup title in three years. Agassi wore Oakley brand sunglasses for the game, and a snapshot of him from the day appeared on the front of a tennis magazine. He wrote a memoir in which he claimed that he was concealing bloodshots from a hangover and that Jim Jannard, the company's founder, had sent him a Dodge Viper to thank him for the inadvertent news.

Agassi captured the Cincinnati Masters' only doubles title of his career in 1993, partnered with Petr Korda. Due to injury, he missed a lot of the early part of the year. Despite being in the quarterfinals of his Wimbledon title defense, he lost to eventual champion and No. In five sets, Pete Sampras beat him by a point. Agassi failed in the first round of the US Open to Thomas Enqvist and required wrist surgery late this year.

Agassi began to take more of a tactical, consistent style, which fueled his revival. He started slowly in 1994, losing in the first week at the French Open and Wimbledon. Nonetheless, he made his name when winning the Canadian Open despite being a little late in the season. His comeback at the 1994 US Open finals with a five-set victory over Michael Chang. He became the first person to win the US Open as an unseeded participant by defeating Michael Stich in the final. Along the way, he defeated 5 seeded opponents.

Agassi shaved his balding head in 1995, bringing his old "image is everything" look to a new one. He won the 1995 Australian Open for the first time in his appearance at the tournament) and defeated defending champion Sampras in a four-set final. In 1995, Agassi and Sampras met in five tournament finals, with Agassi winning three and Agassi winning three. Agassi won three Masters Series titles in 1995 (Cincinnati, Key Biscayne, and the Canadian Open) and seven others. During the summer hard-court circuit, he had a career-best 26-match winning streak, with his last victory coming in an exciting late-night four-set semi-final of the US Open against Boris Becker. Agassi lost the final to Sampras on the next day. Agassi acknowledged the loss, giving Sampras a 9-8 lead in their head-to-head meetings, but it took him two years to get over it physically.

Agassi is the world's best-selling Agassin. For the first time in April 1995, the first time in April 1995, a top-one ranking was ranked. For a total of 30 weeks, he remained at the top of the charts until November. Agassi skipped the majority of the fall indoor season, which allowed Sampras to beat him and finish ranked No. 1 in the world. 1 on the year-end ranked at No. 1 on the year-end chart. 1995 was Agassi's best year ever in terms of win-loss ratios. He won 73 games and lost nine others, and he was also a key player on the Davis Cup winning team in the United States, winning their third and final Davis Cup title of his career.

Agassi had a less fruitful year in 1996, when he failed to qualify for any Grand Slam final. He lost in straight sets to Chang in the Australian and US Open semi-finals, suffering two early-round losses to Chris Woodruff and Doug Flach at the French Open and Wimbledon, respectively. Agassi attributed the Australian Open defeat to the windy weather, but later said he had forfeited the match on purpose as he did not want to face Boris Becker, who would not have been in the final. Agassi was defending the men's singles gold medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games, defeating Sergi Bruguera of Spain in the final. Agassi has also won his singles titles in Cincinnati and Key Biscayne.

Agassi's career came to a halt in 1997. His wrist injury resurfaced, and he played only 24 games during the year. He later admitted that he began using crystal methamphetamine at that time, possibly at the behest of a friend. He failed an ATP drug test but wrote a letter claiming that the same friend spiked a drink. The ATP canceled the failed drug test as a warning. Agassi confessed to the letter that was a lie in his autobiography. He stopped using the drugs right away. Agassi was also in a failing marriage with actor, model, and socialite Brooke Shields and had lost interest in the game at this time. He won no top-level titles and his rank dropped to No. 1. 141 on November 10, 1997, leading many to believe that his days as one of the sport's top players was over and that he would never win any major championships again.

Agassi began a rigorous conditioning program in 1998 and then climbed the ranks by participating in Challenger Series tournaments, a ranking for pro players that were not ranked outside the top 50. Agassi had his best tennis season in his career after recovering to peak physical and mental fitness, and he's also played classic matches against Pete Sampras and Patrick Rafter in that period.

Agassi gained five titles in 1998, and jumped from No. 1 to No. The opposition is down 11 to none. The top ten players to date on a calendar year is 6. He was knocked early in the second round to Tommy Haas at Wimbledon. He won five titles in ten finals and finished runner-up at the Masters Series tournament in Key Biscayne, losing to Marcelo R.os, who fell to No. 10. As a result, there was 1 on the list. For the second time in his career, he was named ATP Most Improved Player of the Year (the first being ten years ago in 1988).

Agassi came back from two sets to love down in a five-set French Open final in 1999, becoming only the fifth male player (joining Rod Laver, Fred Perry, Roy Emerson, and Don Budge) to win all four Grand Slam singles titles during his career. Only Laver, Agassi, Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic have achieved this feat during the Open Era. With this victory, he became the first (out of only four), Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic respectively) male player to have won all four Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces (clay, grass, and hard courts). Agassi is also the only male participant to win the Career Super Slam, which includes all four Grand Slam tournaments as well as a year-end championship.

Agassi won the 1999 French Open final, where he lost in straight sets to Sampras. He recovered from his Wimbledon humiliation by winning the US Open, defeating Todd Martin in five sets (rallying from a two sets to a deficit) in the final. Agassi also won 5 major titles and the ATP Masters Series in Paris, where he defeated Marat Safin. Agassi was the No. 1 in 1999, although it wasn't the only one in the country. Sampras' record of six consecutive year-ending top rankings (1993–98) has fallen, snapping Sampras' record of six consecutive years (1993–98). This was the only time Agassi had ranked No. 4 in the year. 1. Despite defeating Sampras in the round-robin 6–2, 6–2, Agassi was runners-up at the year-end Tennis Masters Cup losing 1–6, 5–7, 4-6.

He began his second Australian Open title in 2000 by defeating Sampras in a five-set semi-final and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in a four-set final. He was the first male player to qualify for four consecutive Grand Slam finals after Rod Laver won the Grand Slam in 1969. Agassi was also the fourth player since Laverne to win three of the four Grand Slam events, but only in Wimbledon, where he lost in five sets to Rafter in a match that many considered the best ever at Wimbledon. Agassi reached the final of the inaugural Tennis Masters Cup in Lisbon after defeating Marat Safin in the semi-finals to put an end to the Russians' hopes of becoming the youngest No. 1 in the world. In the history of tennis, there is no one better than him. Agassi then lost to Gustavo Kuerten in the final, allowing Kuerten to be crowned year-end No. 1.

Agassi opened 2001 by defeating Arnaud Clément in straight sets. In five sets over a sell-out crowd in what was destined to be Australia's last Australian Open, he defeated a cramping Rafter in five sets en route. They met again in the semi-finals at Wimbledon, where Agassi lost another close match to Rafter, 8–6 in the fifth set. Agassi lost a three-hour, 33 minute match with Sampras, 7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 6–7, 6–7, 6–7. Despite the setback, Agassi finished No. 1 in 2001, which was no. 316. In three separate decades, he was the only male tennis player to finish a year in the top 3 in a row.

Agassi was disappointed in 2002 as a result of a shoulder injury that forced him to miss the Australian Open, where he was a two-time champion. Agassi recovered from the crash and defended his Key Biscayne title against rising Roger Federer in a four-set final later this year. Agassi defeated No.1 ranked and defending champion Lleyton Hewitt in the semi-finals at the US Open. Sampras won in four sets in the final of the US Open, leaving Sampras with a 20–14 advantage in their 34 meetings. Sampras' season was over in this match. Agassi's US Open win, as well as his Masters Series victories in Key Biscayne, Rome, and Madrid, helped him finish 2002 as the youngest year-end No. At 32 years old and 8 months old, two boys were born at 32 years old and eight months old.

Agassi captured his eighth (and final) Grand Slam title of his career at the Australian Open in 2003, where he defeated Rainer Schüttler in straight sets in the final.

He recaptured the No. 301 on April 28, 2003. Since the ATP rankings began at 33 years and 13 days, ranked No. 1 in the top male player since the ATP rankings were established in 33 years and 13 days. Roger Federer beat the record in 2018 earlier this year. He had been the No. 1 for the past four years. When Lleyton Hewitt took it back in May 12, 2003, it was the No. 1 ranking for two weeks. The No. 11 in Agassi has since been recaptured. On June 16, 2003, the first rankings were ranked once more, this time for 12 weeks until September 7, 2003. He made it to the US Open semi-finals, where he lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero and then resigned his No.. He is ranked No. 1 in the world's top 100. Agassi held the top spot for 102 weeks during his career. Agassi's popularity dropped as a result of injuries, which caused him to cancel from a variety of activities. Agassi lost in the final to Federer, his third time to finish as runner-up in the event after losses in 1999 and 2000. 4. At age 33, he had been one of the top five players since Connors and had been ranked No. 1 among the top five players since Connors. In 1987, there were 4 in the United States.

Agassi began the year off in 2004 with a five-set loss in the Australian Open semi-finals to Marat Safin; Agassi's 26-match winning streak came to an end. He won the Masters Series in Cincinnati, raising his total number of top-level singles titles and a record 17 ATP Masters Series titles, after winning seven of the nine ATP Masters tournaments, except the tournaments in Monte Carlo and Hamburg. At 34, he became the second-oldest singles champion in Cincinnati tournament history (the tournament began in 1899), tied with Roger Federer and defeated only by Ken Rosewall, who captured the title in 1970 at age 35. He was ranked No. 1 in the year as a result of his year. 8 was one of the oldest players to finish in the top ten since the 36-year-old Connors. In 1988, there were 7 children. Agassi became the sixth male player to win in the open era by defeating Alex Bogomolov in the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles at the start.

Agassi's 2005 season began with a quarterfinal loss to Federer at the Australian Open. Agassi had multiple deep runs in tournaments before, but they had to cancel from several sports due to sickness. In the first round of the French Open, he lost to Jarkko Nieminen. He claimed his fourth title in Los Angeles and advanced to the final of the Rogers Cup before losing to No. 10. Rafael Nadal, 2 Rafael Nadal.

Agassi's 2005 was defined by an improvable run to the US Open final. Agassi won three straight sets and advanced to the final after defeating Răzvan Sabău and Ivo Karlovi in straight sets and Tomá Berdych in four sets. His quarterfinal victory over James Blake, where he went from two sets down to win in the fifth set tie-breaker was the most notable of these matches. Robby Ginepri and Xavier Malisse in the fourth round and Robby Ginepri in the semi-finals were among his five-set victories. Agassi defeated Federer for his second consecutive US Open title and his sixth Grand Slam title in two years. Federer defeated Agassi in four sets. Agassi was ranked No. 1 in 2005 when they were published. Today is his 16th appearance in the year-end top ten rankings, tying Connors for the most times ranked in the top ten at year's end.

Agassi had a rough start to 2006, starting with an ankle injury, back and leg pain, and a lack of match play. Agassi withdrew from the Australian Open due to the ankle injury, his back injury, and other problems, causing him to miss numerous other activities, eventually ending the entire clay-court season, including the French Open. For the first time, his ranking has fallen out of the top ten for the first time. Agassi returned to the grass-court season, playing a tune-up, and then Wimbledon. World No. 2 knocked him in the third round. Rafael Nadal, the 2nd (and eventual runner-up) Rafael Nadal. Agassi, the losing player, was interviewed on court after the match against conventions. Agassi revealed plans to retire following the US Open at Wimbledon. Agassi played just two events during the summer hard-court season, with his best result being a quarterfinal loss at the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles to Fernando González of Chile, which resulted in him not being eligible for the US Open.

In his last US Open run, Agassi had a short but exciting run. Agassi was required to get anti-inflammatory injections after every match due to severe back pain. Agassi defeated Andrei Pavel in the second round of the Australian Open final and Wimbledon semi-finals. Agassi defeated in five sets as the younger Baghdatis succumbed to muscle cramping in the final set. Agassi lost in four sets to 112nd-ranked big-serving Benjamin Becker of Germany in his last match. Following the match and delivering a retirement address, Agassi received a four-minute standing ovation from the audience.

Career statistics

Agassi won the 1999 French Open, winning a men's singles Grand Slam for the first time. He is the 5th of eight male players to achieve this (after Budge, Perry, Laver and Emerson), and the 5th of 8 male players in history (before Federer, Nadal and Djokovic) to win this.

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Professional awards

• ITF World Champion: 1999.
• ATP Player of the Year: 1999.
• ATP Most Improved Player: 1988, 1998