Famous Tennis Players
Andre Agassi
| Full name: Andre Kirk Agassi Nickname: Agassi Date of Birth: April 29th, 1970 ATP ranking: Retired, Sept. 3, 2006 Residence: Las Vegas, NE, USA Career Tiles: 60 singles, 1 doubles Career Prize Money: US$ 31,152,975 Game Style: Baseline play. Great service returner. Backhand drop shot. Profesional Career Achievements: Grand Slams: 8 • Australian Open 1995, 2000, '01, '03 • French Open 1999 • US Open 1994, 1999 • Wimbledon 1992 Tennis Masters Cup: 1 • Singles Championship, Frankfurt 1990 ATP Masters Series: 17 • Key Biscayne '90, '95, '96, '01, '02, '03 • Paris, France 1994, 1999 • Canada 1992, 1994, 1995 • Cincinnati 1995, 1996, 2004 • Indian Wells 2001 • Madrid 2002 • Rome, Italy 2002 ATP Tours: 31 • Itaparica, Brazil 1987 • Charleston 1988 • Memphis 1988 • Stratton Mountain, US 1988 • Stuttgart Outdoors 1988 • Orlando 1989 • San Francisco 1990, '93 • Washington, D.C. 1990, '91, '95, '98, '99 • Heathrow 1991 • Scottsdale, US 1993, '94, '98, 2002 • New Haven 1995 • San Jose, US 1995, '98, '03 • Olympic Games Atlanta, 1996 • Livingston 1998 • Ostrava, Czech Rep. 1998 • Los Angeles 1998, '01, '02, '05 • Vienna, Austria 1994 • Forest Hills 1998 • Hong Kong 1999 • Atlanta 1992 • Houston, US 2003 • Los Angeles 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005 |
Andre Kirk Agassi was born on April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Agassi has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and is one of only five tennis players to have won all four Grand Slam events. Agassi is considered one of the best among the all-time greatest tennis players.
When Andre Agassi was five years old, he was already practicing with pros such as Jimmy Connors and Roscoe Tanner. Mike Agassi learned tennis by watching tapes of champions. At age of 14, Andre Agassi was shipped off to teaching gurú Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy in Florida. He turned professional when he was 16.
Andre Kirk Agassi Tennis career
In 1986 Agassi turned professional by his first top-level singles title in 1987 at Itaparica. Agassi further won six tournaments in 1988 and by the end of the year he had surpassed US$2 million in career prize money becoming the quickest player in history to do such thing.
In the 1990s he began a series of near-misses, at the French Open Agassi reached his first Grand Slam final, but he lost in four sets to the veteran player Andrés Gómez. Later that year, he also lost in the final of the US Open to Pete Sampras. In 1991, Agassi achieved the second consecutive French Open final where he faced his Jim Courier.
From 1988-1990 Agassi chose not to play at Wimbledon. Publicly stated that he did not wish to play there because of the event's traditionalism in dress code.To the surprise of many, Agassi's Grand Slam breakthrough came at Wimbledon in 1992, when he beat Goran Ivanišević in a tight five-set final.
Agassi captured the US Open in 1994 defeating Michael Stich in the final. Then he captured his first Australian Open title in 1995 beating Sampras in a four-set final. Agassi won a career-high seven titles that year and he reached the World No. 1 ranking for the first time that April. Agassi was able to hold the number 1 position for 30 weeks.
In 1995, Agassi won the Australian Open and six other titles the biggest being the Australian Open, the Cincinnati Masters, the Miami Masters, and the Canada Masters. In terms of win/loss record, 1995 was Agassi's best year. In 1996, Agassi won the men's singles Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, beating Sergi Bruguera.