Word: agassi
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...Grand Slam event, the 1995 Australian Open, and was cruising along as a bad-boy Numero Uno until he was again knocked into Kingdom Comeback by Sampras, who had more tools than a Swiss Army knife. Sampras administered a straight-set thrashing in the U.S. Open finals that cracked Agassi's karma, causing him to question whether tennis...
...looking for something to take his mind off tennis, calling Shields every night might do it. Andre swooned, wed and swooned again, eventually bottoming out in 1997 at a world ranking of 141. "I made a distinct choice for my life, and I don't regret that at all," Agassi says. "I'm responsible for what I did--not Brooke...
...forty-one doesn't mean you're burning out; it means you're toast. No one expected Agassi to resurface this time. But he did an extraordinary thing, entering a couple of bush-league events, tournaments filled with hopeful kids who helped him rediscover the spark that was missing. Oh, he beat the kids to a pulp...
...Agassi's resurrection provided a nick-of-time Rx for men's tennis too. NBC's French Open finals ratings were up 43% from 1998, and when Sampras and Agassi reached the finals at Wimbledon, interest in a men's match was at its highest since, well, since these two met in Queens four years earlier...
Sampras torched Agassi and the rest of the field on Wimbledon's grass. And he has since beaten Agassi twice on hard courts, but the matches were close enough to have rekindled new interest in the Great 1990s Tennis Rivalry (That Didn't Happen). "It's good for tennis in America to have us two going at it like we've been the past couple of months," said Sampras after their third dance. "I feel a certain buzz with the rivalry kind of kicking...