Andre Kirk Agassi (American, born the April 29th 1970 with Las Vegas) is a former player of professional Tennis. Called the “Kid of Las Vegas”, Andre Agassi is one of the rare players to be itself imposed in the four tournaments of the Grand Slam, and only with Rod Laver since the beginning of the Open era in 1968.

Career

Andre Agassi is the son of Emmanuel " Mike" Agassian, Armenian of Iran, which represented the Iran the boxing proof of the Olympic Games of 1948 and 1952 before emigrating in the United States.

Andre Agassi gained the gold medal into simple at the time of the Olympic Games of 1996 with Atlanta. He is regarded as one of the largest players of Tennis of all times since he is the only one to have gained the 4 titles of the Grand Slam on 4 different surfaces, to which one can add 2 Davis Cuts and 17 Masters Series, a record. Married with the tennis player Steffi Graf, it has today 2 children (Jayden Gill and Jazz She). His/her sister, Rita, were the sixth wife of the great champion of tennis Pancho Gonzales. Agassi paid her funeral in 1995.

Its large rival Pete Sampras and delivered memorable matches to him. In 2005, it succeeds in the exploit at 35 years to gain the tournament of Los Angeles and to reach the finale of the US Open, tournament of the Large Slam, 20 years after its first participation. It will be inclined vis-a-vis a player who is on the way to become the best player of the history of tennis: Roger Federer. Agassi will reveal besides that Federer is the best player of the circuit ATP than it met. Wounded at the end of the season 2005, it is constrained to declare fixed price for the last tournament of the season being held with Shanghai, Masters Cup, following its defeat vis-a-vis the Russian Nikolaï Davydenko.

He is the only player of the Open era to have gained all the tournaments of the Large Slam (4 Open of Australia, 2 US Open, 1 Roland Garros, 1 Wimbledon), an exploit that neither Pete Sampras, neither Björn Borg and nor Roger Federer realized. He is in addition regarded as a cursed player since he lost 7 finales of Large Slam including 4 against Pete Sampras, the only one with being able to beat it regularly.

Nevertheless, the " Kid of Las Vegas " was sometimes preferred with its compatriot for his kindness and the emotions which it could transmit on the court. He was also the pet of the public of Paris after his incredible success vis-a-vis Andreï Medvedev in 1999 when its tears of joy (he had never yet gained in Paris) had moved the spectators. This victory, in which, after having conceded the first two sets it had found the resources to carry it, constitutes one of the most beautiful finales of the history of Roland Garros. Its principal qualities are the return (he was regarded as the best retournor of the world), its service, its speed, its imagination, its aggressiveness, its combativeness and the fact that he was the pet of the public. He was also one of the players to take earliest the ball after the rebound.

In 2005, the American journalists of Tennis Magazine elected Andre Agassi with the 12th rank of the " forty great champions of Tennis of these forty last années" (men & women confused), behind John McEnroe (11th) and in front of Monica Saddles (13th).

Reprocess

Andre Agassi took her retirement after her elimination of the Open US 2006, beaten by the German Benjamin Becker, resulting from the qualifications. At 36 years, the American, one of the players emblématiques of the Years 1990, car thus its reverence with a prize list rich of 60 titles in simple including 8 in Large Slam: Open of Australia (1995,2000,2001,2003), Roland Garros (1999), US Open (1994,1999), Wimbledon (1992).

Titles of the Large Slam (8)

Prize list

Coupe Davis (3)

  • 1990,1992,1995 : winner in 1990 and 1992 and 1995
  • 1991: finalist in 1991

Simple (60)

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Finalist (30)

Semi-finalist

Quarterfinal

  • International of France: in 1995,2001 & 2002

Doubles (1)

Classification ATP

  • world N°1 for the first time the April 10th 1995
  • world N°1 during 101 weeks on the whole (7th)
  • Classifications of end of the year:
    • 1986 : 91
    • 1987 : 25
    • 1988 : 3
    • 1989: 7
    • 1990: 4
    • 1991: 10
    • 1992: 9
    • 1993: 24
    • 1994: 2
    • 1995: 2
    • 1996: 8
    • 1997: 122
    • 1998 : 6
    • 1999: 1
    • 2000: 6
    • 2001: 3
    • 2002: 2
    • 2003: 4
    • 2004: 8
    • 2005: 7

See too

Internal bond

External bonds

  • the foundation of Andre Agassi
  • Site of information on Agassi

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