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
His serve was more awkward than I anticipated. If you don't get a good return, he immediately gets on the offense. That's the sign of a great player.
I felt like I was playing good tennis and that's a great feeling. It's only the second match, but it's certainly a great one for me.
To deal with Jonas the way I did today wasn't easy to do, so I have to feel good about many parts of my game.
The third and fourth set, I felt I was a bit living on the edge with my serve. He was getting a lot of good swings at it, had me under a lot of pressure. But the fifth, I had a few good easy hold games and started to relax a little bit more and hit my spots a little bit better, so that helped me to relax on my return games, as well.
Same story now for a little while. A couple of good days followed by a series of difficult ones.
Ivo, it's so hard to break him. One or two points can decide the match. It was good to close that one out, this was getting tougher.
First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.
Anything you try to do, he potentially has an answer for, ... He plays the game in a way I haven't seen before. I mean, he's the only guy where you hold serve for 1-0, and you're thinking, 'All right ... good (laughter).' That's how it is. You've always got that sense of urgency. It's an incredible challenge.
I don't know if I've ever felt this good here,
But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all good.
It's a good feeling to be playing in an environment that you played so well in, and then to have a match that you've had before.
The ball never came in my range today. I didn't play badly but it certainly wasn't good enough. I needed to settle down, but as soon as I tried to get a rally going, he would take his chances and hit some good passing shots. You've got to credit him with that.
It was good to close that one out, it was only getting tougher,
It makes me feel great I can play five sets without that pain. That's certainly a good indication that everything's holding up,