<p>Doing us geriatric players proud.</p>
<p>Dude Agassi is probably my favorite tennis player all time next to McEnroe. I hope he goes out with a bang and wins the open, that would be a fitting ending to an awesome career. Hopefully then ARod can take the torch and get American males back on top of the tennis world once again.</p>
<p>I still remember that SI article years ago about Sampras and Agassi. Agassi definitely came off as the more substantial person, which only adds to his legacy as a tennis player. He really did look horrible with that long and stringy hair, though, didn’t he!!! Martini H. had a rough go of it, let’s hope for better for AA.</p>
<p>With regard to his formerly long hair, it cracks me up how Agassi still has the same tics–as if he can still feel it–and is always running his fingers over his forehead and around his ears to get it out of the way. What a great match with Baghdatis. This is going to be an Open to remember.</p>
<p>Driver, while I agree that Agassi is pretty amazing, 36 just isn’t geriatric. Lance Armstrong won his 7th Tour de France at 36. I think modern training methods and medical care mean longer athletic careers.</p>
<p>I like McEnroe now that he is a tennis analyst. He is much better in the booth than he was on the court, where his embarrasing behavior cried out for analysis of another sort…</p>
<p>I like Agassi too (who doesn’t?!), his game and demeanor are impeccable but I do wish someone had introduced him to the use of hankerchiefs.</p>
<p>This is why I am a big fan of Julio Franco of the Mets–48, just two months younger than me!</p>
<p>Great match, like two heavyweight boxers going at it. If it’s Andre’s last winning match (sure hope not), it will live on like the Blake vs. Agassi match in archival footage…</p>
<p>I agree. That was one of the greatest matches I have seen in some time. What a fabulous slugger. It really says something about his personality. In pain, going to extremes to treat it so he can punish himself more TO WIN. Doesn’t that say something about tennis. I know exactly how he feels. That drive, compulsion to win at singles. I have so much more admiration for him now. Denying pain to put on a pleasant face for the fans. My goodness!</p>
<p>And now, did he get out of bed today???</p>
<p>probably with the help of extra-strength Motrin ;)</p>
<p>Although I remain a steadfast Sampras fan, I have embraced Agassi’s farewell tour wholeheartedly and am hoping he makes it to the fourth round to meet Roddick. One of my little prayers tonight will be for rain tomorrow to give him an extra day of rest. On USA this afternoon, Jim Courier said he had talked to his trainer and that AA was having a rough day and required another injection, this time of an antiimflammatory drug. He is certainly a class act!</p>
<p>Awwwww…what a run!</p>
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<p>By “training methods and medical care,” do you mean to include steriods, epo, etc…, and the medical practices that help athletes to test negative?? If so, well said!!</p>
<p>Actually, I was thinking of cortisone (for Agassi) but I happen to be in the school of thought that says Lance didn’t actually use drugs. </p>
<p>I was also thinking of such things as arthroscopic surgery and, factually, better athletic training methods.</p>
<p>A great American of Persian heritage! I’ll miss watching him.</p>
<p>He went out with style.</p>
<p>Persian? If so, that explains his rather public habit of “blowing his nose” into the air, as I saw countless times while living in Iran (I like the name Persia better) some forty years ago, but I thought he was of Armenian extraction. lol</p>
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<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/agassi/profile.html[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/agassi/profile.html</a></p>
<p>“his rather public habit of “blowing his nose” into the air”…apparently, you haven’t watched much American Football, or Hockey…they all do it all the time (you don’t need to be of Iranian/American extraction).</p>
<p>I watched plenty of American football back in the early 60’s and not once did I see that reductionist method used. Now, it may be in use these days, but its “origins” are un-American, not to mention uncivilized. lol</p>