Bio
Date of birth:	29 April 1970
Turned pro:	1986
Career win-loss:	870:274 (singles)
Career titles:	60 singles, 1 doubles
Grand Slam-wins:	8 singles: Australian Open 1995, 2000, 2001, 2003; French Open 1999; Wimbledon 1992; US Open 1994, 1999
Prize money:	31,152,975 dollars
Retired:	2006

He was born in Las Vegas, the El Dorado for fortune seekers. However everything that Andre Agassi achieved in his career was a product of hard work. His played 21 years on the professional tour and won 60 titles, including eight Grand Slams. He is one of only seven players in tennis history to have won all four majors at least once. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he added a gold medal to his collection.

When still only a teenager, Andre Agassi, who moved to Florida at the age of 13 to train at Nick Bollettieri’s tennis academy, was practicing with legends like Jimmy Connors and Roscoe Tanner. He turned pro just after his 15th birthday in 1986. His first tournament win came in Itaparica, Brazil in 1987. With his long hair and his garish clothes, he was considered a rebel. However his class also caught people’s attention. His first appearance in a Grand Slam final came at the French Open in 1990 but was defeated as he was later in the year in the final of the US Open. To compensate, he won the Davis Cup with Team USA and the World Championship by beating Stefan Edberg in the final.

His big breakthrough came in 1992 when he defeated Boris Becker and John McEnroe to reach the Wimbledon final where he won his first Grand Slam title by beating Goran Ivanisevic. A second Davis Cup win was then added with Team USA. After a difficult time with injuries and early defeats, he won the US Open in 1994 as the first unseeded player to do so when beating Michael Stich in the final. At the end of the season he was the world No. 2, in April 1995 the world No. 1. His trademark wild mane had by now become a thing of the past.

The 1997 season formed the low point of his career. He was forced to miss the first three Grand Slams of the year due to a repeat of his wrist injury. His marriage to actress Brooke Shields caught the headlines. His loss in the last 16 at the US Open resulted in him dropping out of the top 100 in the world rankings.

However Andre Agassi fought his way back and his achievements in 1999 wrote tennis history. He won the French Open and the US Open and topped the world rankings again. The French sports newspaper “L’Equipe” voted him “World Sportsman of the Year”. Having been the world No. 1 for a total of 101 weeks, Andre Agassi retired at the 2006 US Open. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on 20 January 2011.

Andre Agassi has been married to Steffi Graf since October 2001 and the couple live in Las Vegas with their two children.