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Open agassi book5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() While Agassi’s father gets the money the owner of the club dissuades Brown from taking the bet and they eventually agree to play two sets, then decide how much to bet on the third. Brown is looking to play a game for money and a $10,000 wager is set on the outcome of the match between Brown and a young Andre Agassi, aged nine. He won the first seven of them.Īt the local tennis club one day, Agassi’s father spots the famous American football player, Jim Brown. ![]() Andre Kirk Agassi was their fourth child, born 29th April 1970.Īt eight years old Agassi started playing tournaments against children under ten. His mother, Betty married his father in 1959 in Chicago. In boxing terms he taught Agassi to be a great counter-puncher on the court i.e. His father was a tough man, a former boxer who represented Iran in the Olympics twice. ![]() ![]() What was a tennis court to most people was a prison to Andre Agassi. The tennis court was built by his father in the backyard of their house, which sat in the middle of the desert next to Las Vegas. His father used to make him return 2,500 balls a day on the tennis court, that’s nearly a million a year, all being fired at him from a souped-up ball machine he called ‘the dragon’. Even at the age of seven years old, Andre Agassi hated tennis. ![]()
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