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While others continue to pray for peace in East Timor or for Britney Spears to turn 18, my prayers were answered last week when Andre Agassi shaved his chest. As if that weren't news enough, I also found out that Green Bay Packers quarterback Bret Favre shaved his legs for the upcoming season. These are real men, men who have been knocked unconscious by 300-ft. linebackers and married women who starred in sitcoms that they had to pretend were funny. I did some research and found a survey by Coherent Medical Group that shows that 54% of women...
...does Agassi. "I can't think of a better place for it all to come down to than New York. If I could have only one, I would take it at the Open," he says. "I'll forget about the three others this year if I beat him in New York." It's a great venue for Agassi. Planes from La Guardia zoom overhead, patrons are ready to rumble. In one of sport's ripe ironies, tennis fans in Polo sweatsuits, sustained by $10-a-slice quiche, scream bloody murder in support of their idea of a working-class hero...
...Agassi's 29, and he's the man. Moreover, he's in a position to savor the role. "It was amazing to experience so much in your life in two years," he says on the eve of the American championships. "I think it put me in a position to really appreciate things this time around." At least until next time. Welcome back, again, Andre...
...Andre Agassi isn't the only thing in tennis that's on the upswing. So is the game, and that's good news for racquet makers such as Wilson, Prince and Head, the company that makes Agassi's. With golf muscling in on the leisure market, racquet sales have been in a decade-long decline. This year sales could climb 5%, which is in some measure attributable to the ability of a Swedish turnaround artist to persuade the Austrian government's tobacco monopoly to sell him a sporting-goods company created by an American entrepreneur...
Eliasch brought an innovation to the game--titanium--a material he took directly from golf. Head's Ti5 and Ti6 models, which weigh about 7 oz. and cost up to $250, were the world's top two selling racquets last year. In Agassi, Head may have the game's top salesman too. "In the past, tennis had Borg, McEnroe and Connors. Today there's only Andre," says Eliasch...