Andre Kirk Agassi is a former professional tennis player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. He is married to fellow retired pro tennis player Steffi Graf.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andre Agassi said he has no regrets about baring his life in his recently published memoirs and his use of crystal meth despite criticism from the tennis community, adding that his wife Steffi Graf was proud of him. In "Open," Agassi describes loathing the tennis life he was pushed into by his father and reveals that a deep depression in 1997 led him to use the recreational drug, and that he lied to officials about using crystal meth after testing positive. "I knew it... Read Full Story
It turns out Andre Agassi was lying all along. To fans. To opponents. To tennis authorities. To first wife Brooke Shields. To friends, including Barbra Streisand. To the media. And, he says, to himself. "I can't live with that anymore," Agassi said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "These lies — some of them came, certainly, out of fear. A lot of them came out of real confusion. A lot of it was thinking out loud. A lot of it was just getting stuff wrong. And a lot of it... Read Full Story
Tennis great Andre Agassi has admitted he tested positive for hard drugs during his career and lied to sporting authorities to escape a ban, reports said Wednesday. Agassi, one of the world's greatest tennis players with eight Grand Slam titles, reveals in his autobiography to testing positive for the highly addictive drug crystal methamphetamine. The champion, now 39, also says that he has always secretly hated playing tennis and lived in fear of his bad-tempered and violent father. In the... Read Full Story
Tennis great Andre Agassi has admitted he tested positive for hard drugs during his career and lied to sporting authorities to escape a ban, reports said Wednesday. Agassi, one of the world's greatest tennis players with eight Grand Slam titles, reveals in his autobiography to testing positive for the highly addictive drug crystal methamphetamine. The champion, now 39, also says that he has always secretly hated playing tennis and lived in fear of his bad-tempered and violent father. In the... Read Full Story
The World Anti-Doping Agency has asked tennis to investigate Andre Agassi's admission that he took crystal meth in 1997. WADA director general David Howman would not elaborate on what he wrote in the letter sent to the ATP, but he told The Associated Press he hopes it "would bring a considered response." "Our task is to protect the clean athletes and to make sure that these sorts of things don't recur," Howman said by telephone. "And if we didn't take any steps, somebody would be knocking on... Read Full Story
ATP chairman Adam Helfant says the tour will not reopen a doping case against Andre Agassi even though he admitted to lying about using crystal meth in 1997. Agassi revealed in his recent autobiography that he failed a 1997 drug test, a result he says was thrown out after he lied by claiming he "unwittingly" took crystal meth. Helfant said on Friday the ATP cannot reopen the case since Agassi has retired and no longer plays on the tour. Helfant says he had a "very frank conversation" with... Read Full Story
Imagined conversation between literary agent and retired tennis megastar with a dirty secret: "You want to get richer with me?" "How?" "With ker-plunk." "What the hell's ker-plunk?" "A tell-all autobiography." "Why do they call it ker-plunk?" "Because that's the sound the dollars make as they drop into our bank accounts." Should we be surprised that Andre Agassi now tells us, 12 years after the fact, that he snorted crystal meth when his life and tennis were at a low? Absolutely not. You... Read Full Story
Former tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig, in extracts from his autobiography published in British newspapers Saturday. Agassi said he wore a hairpiece held together with pins in his first Grand Slam final, the 1990 French Open final, and blamed his concerns that it would fall apart for losing the match to Andres Gomez. Before the match he prayed "not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off", he... Read Full Story
I donÕt know Andre Agassi, the Las Vegas tennis legend and, as of Tuesday, admitted former crystal meth user. But I have liked him since the day he started losing his hair and responded by shaving it off. It was like somebody lobbed that Òimage is everythingÓ pretense that once defined him and Agassi whacked it into the swimming pool in his neighborÕs yard. With a goodly amount of topspin. Goodbye, hair extensions. Hello, Gillette Mach 3 razor. I can deal with it, Andre seemed to be saying... Read Full Story
Andre Agassi has pleaded for compassion from critics over his taking of crystal methamphetamine, saying he "needed help" to fight depression in 1997. CBS released excerpts from Agassi's interview in the "60 Minutes" programme Thursday with the entire story to be aired Sunday night regarding his admission of taking methamphetamine in an upcoming memoir as well as other aspects of his life and career. Agassi became emotional when interviewer Katie Couric read him the words of Martina... Read Full Story
