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...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...
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...
...Brigid returned to her native Britain to work on the TIME Atlantic edition, and there she truly blossomed, managing the reporters with aplomb while writing on subjects as diverse as Wimbledon and Russian art. But her greatest passion was for friendship, and her greatest pleasure came from conversation with friends, conversation that was full of curiosity about how the world worked and a moral energy about how it should work. The magazine was very lucky to have had her as a journalist all those years; we were far luckier to have had her as a friend...
...overzealous. She has been a dedicated single mother, driving her daughter in an old Volvo station wagon to junior tennis tournaments throughout the U.S. and paying for expensive lessons. She has also publicly acknowledged, since Alexandra was four, that she intended her daughter to play at Wimbledon. "When Alexandra was born, I realized that she was going to be my future," Samantha told reporters. "The bottom line is: I'm her mother, I want her to be happy...