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...then there's Andre Agassi. "I am constantly changing," he says in what is, for him, a rare understatement...
...completely revamped, 1999-model Agassi motors into this week's U.S. Open in New York City with the top down, the engine bulked up, and the passenger seat empty, Mrs. Agassi--a.k.a. Brooke Shields--having flown the coupe. Now ranked second in the world, the newly single Agassi has singlehandedly rejuvenated both his own sputtering career and men's tennis in general. So winning the Open title in rowdy Flushing Meadows would be fitting. To do so, though, he'll have to get by the top gun, Pete Sampras, who hasn't needed to stage a made-for-television comeback...
When first we glimpsed Agassi just over a decade ago, he was a skinny teenager with an omigosh attitude. He was a teen heartthrob, a proto-Leo with a roaring forehand and a leonine mane (hair, yes, Andre once had hair, streaked with fancy colors). A top-ranked player before he was 20, he won the big one, Wimbledon, at 22 in '92. A baseliner winning on a banger's surface, grass. He could...
What we realize now is that Agassi's aren't mere comebacks; they are reinventions. In 1994 he reappeared as the Zen Master. Refreshed by the analyst's couch and the preachments of coach Brad Gilbert, Agassi drifted through the U.S. Open draw, unseeded and unheeded, until he was the only one standing--a focused player on the court, a spouter of self-improvement blather off it. Hey, it was Deepak/Oprah...
DIVORCING. BROOKE SHIELDS, 33, TV actress and model, and ANDRE AGASSI, 28, pro-tennis bigwig; after two years of marriage; in Las Vegas...