In between, stars like Andre Agassi and Jim Courier contributed to American influence within the sport.
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Kuerten broke Agassi twice to win the second set, and served two games to love.
It's as though I flew in Agassi to practice with me before the finals.
The newspapers know this, and the public knows this and Andre Agassi knows this.
Agassi admitted he was well below his best, failing to find his range fom the baseline.
Yet Agassi used to make two and three times the endorsement money that Sampras did each year.
Israeli automobile experts said that Mr. Agassi raised expectations with overly aggressive sales predictions and rollout timetables.
Under Agassi, Better Place launched operations in Australia, Canada, China, Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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And Andre Agassi is also aiming for a Stella success after crashing out of the French Open early.
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Though as a former top executive at software giant SAP, Agassi was not exactly a typical startup guy.
Later that year, Pete Sampras beat fellow thirty-something Andre Agassi in the U.S. Open final and retired at age 31.
Nick Bollettieri, whose famous tennis academy has produced the likes of Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova, agrees with Roddick.
However, fears that Agassi would miss Wimbledon because of the damage quickly abated.
"It's pretty satisfying, " said the 26-year-old, seeking to become the event's first U.S. winner since Andre Agassi in 2001.
The McEnroe-Connors era gave way to the Sampras-Agassi-Courier-Chang era, and American tennis and its popularity was in good hands.
And looking to the future, Agassi insisted there was no danger of he and wife Steffi Graf being idle.
"It's disappointing that someone had to lose a match like that, " Agassi said.
Since then Mr. Feith has lobbed ideas with the ferocity of Andre Agassi.
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But Gilbert came with a CV that included working with former world number ones Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.
Agassi came from 3-1 down to win the first-set tiebreak, hitting a forehand winner off Kuerten's short service return.
"I just kept pressing, and he got the better of me, " said Agassi.
The score was poised at 2-2 in the second set when Agassi twisted and fell just short of the net.
Andre Agassi began his preparation for next week's Australian Open with a 7-6 6-3 win over Sweden's Thomas Enqvist .
Nadal, by comparison, drew level with Federer on 16 Masters titles, behind only the 18 won by American Andre Agassi.
Germany's Graf, the wife of Agassi, has 107, while Lindsay Davenport of the U.S. collected 55 titles during her career.
Sampras holds a 20-14 career record over Agassi, winning four of the five Grand Slam finals the two have contested.
Agassi's return to form, seemingly against the odds, its less surprising when taking into account his near-total disregard for convention.
Me and Agassi will hit balls and do whatever we can to get ready--play some exhibition games and so on.
"It's a very disappointing way for the tournament to come to an end, " Agassi said after being presented with the trophy.
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