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...count on American players to revive the game's popularity. Sure, a hometown surprise is always possible in Queens. Slumping Andy Roddick took an Open tune-up tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio; Harvard man James Blake, ranked fifth in the world, is a serious threat; and after Andre Agassi's fairy-tale romp to last year's final, you can't discount the 36-year-old in the last tournament of his career. But a stunning American meltdown at Wimby--for the first time in nearly a century, no U.S. man or woman reached the quarterfinals--underscored the fact that...
...Agassi is old enough to have faced both McEnroe and Nadal, and he's attracted more to Nadal's spray-paint style than Federer's tennis classicism. "Roger just makes it look too easy," says Agassi, who lost to Federer in last year's U.S. Open final and fell to Nadal in the third round of this year's Wimbledon. "He has so many options out there on the tennis court. It's easier to identify with Nadal. Federer puts fans in the position where all they can do is marvel...
...fans] think my career might go through him," he says. "I think it goes through titles." But both players understand the benefits of a U.S. Open final that includes them. Nadal serves a sales pitch to Americans who might yawn at a matchup with no Yanks. He cites Sampras-Agassi, the rivalry on which he was reared, which resembles his contrast with Federer. "I am not American, I'm Spanish, and I was following that because there are special moments," he says, through an interpreter. "It doesn't matter what their nationality is. Those special moments must be followed...
Once a punk pariah, now a winsome champ - no athlete has transformed his image like tennis' Andre Agassi. One of only five men to notch a career Grand Slam by winning Wimbledon and the Australian, French, and U.S. Opens at least once, Agassi, 36, will hang up his racquet after this year' s U.S. Open, which begins next week. He spoke to TIME's Sean Gregory about his chances in his last tournament, his rebellious past and his marriage to fellow legend Steffi Graf...
RETIRING. Andre Agassi, 36, onetime wild child of tennis who shed his crazy mane but kept his zinging ground strokes and became one of only five men to have won all four Grand Slams (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens); after the 2006 U.S. Open...