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United States · born Las Vegas, 1970 · right-handed · Wimbledon champion 1992
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1992
Wimbledon champion, his first major title
3
Wimbledons missed in protest, 1988 to 1990
46-13
Wimbledon match record in 14 appearances
37
Aces Ivanišević served against him in 1992
50-18
Career match record on grass
Born in Las Vegas in 1970, Agassi was sent to Nick Bollettieri's academy as a boy; after watching him for thirty minutes Bollettieri told his father to take his cheque back. He won eight major singles titles: the Australian Open four times, the US Open twice, Wimbledon in 1992 and the French Open in 1999, which completed a career Grand Slam. He also won Olympic singles gold at Atlanta in 1996, finished 1999 as world No. 1, held the top ranking for 101 weeks and won 60 ATP singles titles. He was in the winning United States Davis Cup teams of 1990, 1992 and 1995. He retired after the 2006 US Open, married Steffi Graf in 2001, and his foundation opened a charter school in Las Vegas. He entered the Hall of Fame in 2011.
| Wimbledon singles | Champion 1992; runner-up 1999; semi-finals 1995, 2000, 2001; quarter-finals 1991, 1993 |
|---|---|
| Final won | 1992: beat Goran Ivanišević 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, after beating Boris Becker in the quarter-final and John McEnroe 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 in the semi-final |
| Final lost | 1999: lost to Pete Sampras 3-6, 4-6, 5-7 |
| Years away | Lost in the first round to Henri Leconte in 1987, then stayed away from 1988 to 1990, citing the club's traditions and its predominantly white dress code |
| Other grass | No other grass singles title and no grass doubles finals; 50-18 on grass from 19 events. Last Wimbledon 2006, lost in the third round to Rafael Nadal |
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| 1992 | Men's singles | |
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"This tournament has offered me and my life so much. It's a shame that I didn't respect it a little earlier."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon 1987
After losing in the first round to Henri Leconte, he vowed never to return. In his autobiography Open he wrote that the food, the buses and the venerable traditions made him feel out of place, and he questioned the all-white rule: "What does it matter to these people, what kind of clothes do I wear?" He missed the next three Championships.
Source: tennisnetNike 1990
Nike signed him as a teenager and in 1990 introduced his Challenge Court range: acid-wash denim shorts worn over neon yellow, pink and purple Lycra tights. Canon built a camera campaign around him with the slogan "Image is Everything", which also served to point out that rivals had already won majors while he had not.
Source: International Tennis Hall of FameWimbledon 1991
After three years away and weeks of speculation about what he would wear, he walked out for his first-round match in a completely white outfit. It was his first Wimbledon since the 1987 defeat by Leconte. He reached the quarter-finals and lost to David Wheaton in five sets.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1992 · Final
Ivanišević served 37 aces in the final, 11 in the first set and 10 in the fifth. On match point his volley went into the net and Agassi fell to the grass, laughing and crying. Ivanišević climbed over the net to embrace him. "The next thing I look, nothing, except see guy down on floor," he said.
Source: Sports IllustratedWimbledon 1992 · Champions' Ball
He wrote in Open that he could not wait to twirl Steffi Graf, the women's champion, across a dance floor, "never mind that I don't know how to dance". The champions' dance was dropped that year; the two winners were formally introduced and shook hands instead. They married in 2001.
Source: SportskeedaParis 1990
In his early years the long hair was partly a hairpiece, and he later put his loss in the 1990 French Open final down in part to worrying that it would fall off. He shaved his head in 1995. His autobiography Open, written with J. R. Moehringer and published in 2009, reached No. 1 on the New York Times list.
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