Word: agassi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andre Agassi's U.S. Open victory may ultimately help restore some of tennis' popularity among the masses in this country, but it saddens me to see that this can only come from a guy who for so long seemed to believe his own commercials (and by the way, image is NOT everything). Sampras scares people with his youthful composure, I guess, and Agassi's girl-friends (Barbra Streisand, Brooke Shields) seem to get all the publicity. (Sigh...
Only a two short years ago, a group of male senators grilled a young female law professor from Oklahoma on national network television. This vivid memory alone will ensure that the appearance of justice may override the actual execution of it. As Andre Agassi would agree, image may very well be everything...
...ANDRE AGASSI...
...Barbra Streisand embracing the efforts of Andre Agassi at the U.S. Open, before he threw his racquet while losing to Jim Courier in four sets...
Half a dozen years back, Courier and Agassi were roommates at Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Fla. Courier left, griping that the flashy Agassi was getting more attention from owner Bollettieri. Courier, the slow but steady type, won the Orange Bowl, a junior tournament, at 16. But he didn't win a pro-tour event until 1989 and didn't add another victory until just 11 months ago, at Indian Wells, Calif. Meanwhile, his agemates Michael Chang and Pete Sampras had joined Agassi in surging ahead. A year and a half ago, when asked to rank...