Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassiis an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi had been called the greatest service returner in the history of the game. Described by the BBC upon his retirement as "perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history", Agassi...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth29 April 1970
CityLas Vegas, NV
CountryUnited States of America
I'm going to go down swinging. ... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
I mean, what do you do? What do you tell those people that are sitting there, waiting to be rescued and people can't even get to them?
I'm not going to have a lot of winners against a guy like Roger. My goal is to get a lot of errors out of him because of the breezy conditions. I wanted to control the point, but not get too risky.
If you don't understand the mentality of the people, if you don't understand the people, you don't appreciate the city, you don't appreciate playing here.
If you could start the point off from the baseline, it would be a very one-sided match,
I not only want to play, I want to win. I am really not in the position to do that, so it's not fair to myself or the fans of tennis. I'm going to choose to just try to get my body right and keep working, look at the schedule and see what's next at that point. But right now, I'm not in a position to be out there. I'm way less than 100 percent.
But he was, in his most difficult moments, more awkward than I anticipated.
But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all good.
I knew it was on the bubble of getting really tough.
I knew I was in a tussle at that point.
In every match I play, I grow in my appreciation for this opportunity, this chance to be out there playing at the U.S. Open for another match, another time,
I had his back against the wall to some degree but he just figured that to be a cue for him to do something else,
I just couldn't get my teeth back in the match. I started second-guessing my shots. I never found the pace I was looking for. I played too big some points and some points I would try to control a bit more. Then I'd give him too good of a look.
I just kept working hard. I'm in the finals, that's awesome. I'll be out here tomorrow, and I will let it all out.