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Marat Safin Calls it a Career

Posted: Nov 11th 2009 3:28PM by FanHouse Newswire (author feed)
Filed under: ATP, ATP Rankings

PARIS (AP) -- Known for furious, racket-throwing rants, Marat Safin would rather be remembered for the hard work he put in during a 12-year career marked by two Grand Slam titles and a Davis Cup win.

The former No. 1 ended his career Wednesday after losing to Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters.

"A lot of people there really thought that I'm not a really hard worker," Safin said. "But you can ask all my coaches how I dedicated myself to tennis. They will tell you it's completely the opposite of what a lot of people think."

Greg Couch: Safin Bows Out His Way

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Andre Agassi Remorseful on '60 Minutes'

Posted: Nov 8th 2009 9:16PM by Chris Sesno (author feed)
Filed under: ATP

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A reflective Andre Agassi gave his first TV interview on CBS' 60 Minutes since the shocking excerpts from his autobiography were released to the public less than two weeks ago.

Katie Couric pressed Agassi on many of the revelations from his book, including the pressure he felt from his father, his secret sentiments toward the sport that made him famous and the admission that he frequently used crystal meth with his trainer in 1997.

"I have to call it like it is," Agassi said when asked about the motivations behind revealing his past. "And hating tennis was a deep part of my life for a long, long time."

Agassi was visibly emotional -- saying he was scared, isolated and "living a fraud" during his years in the tennis spotlight.

More: Couch: Shamefully, Agassi Fails the Trust Test
Mariotti: For Andre, Truth is Everything

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WADA Crock: Making Wickmayer Pay for Agassi's Sin

Posted: Nov 6th 2009 11:30AM by Greg Couch (author feed)
Filed under: U.S. Open, ATP

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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency acknowledged that it's too late to punish Andre Agassi for his failed drug test from 1997, darned statute of limitations. But WADA said it still wants some punishment, anyway. Maybe for Agassi's lies to doping officials, which he admits in his book? Maybe for perjury?

Doubtful. But I knew tennis would get its pound of flesh, anyway, as Agassi has embarrassed the sport's governing bodies. What I didn't know was how fast they would get that flesh.

Or that they would take it from Yanina Wickmayer.

She was banned Thursday for a year for a doping offense. It wasn't for failing a test, or apparently even for missing one, though details still aren't out. It was because she failed to report three times to doping officials over the past 18 months where she would be.

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Shamefully, Agassi Fails the Trust Test

Posted: Oct 30th 2009 4:30PM by Greg Couch (author feed)
Filed under: ATP

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You're being handled, played, manipulated. I am, too.

Where is Andre Agassi? Why hasn't he come out in the past 72 hours to tell us that drugs weren't the greatest thing to happen to him, no matter what his book excerpts seem to say? Why has this man who has done so many great things with his school for disadvantaged kids, let the message just hang out there?

Drugs fun. Hate tennis. Bad relationship with Dad.

If he wanted to clear his soul, to confess to his sins, then why did he need be paid $5 million to do it.

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Serena Should Be No. 1 and Much More

Posted: Apr 21st 2009 8:44PM by Greg Couch (author feed)
Filed under: WTA, WTA Rankings

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Blame the system if you want. It is all wrong. But Dinara Safina is now the No. 1 ranked women's tennis player, and no, she's not the best women's player.

Psycho. That's how Serena Williams, the best player, described it.

"I just ...'' she said. "I can't compute it.''

No, a computer does that. Tennis has its own little BCS-type controversy now, with computers trying to measure greatness. The difference is that the college football can't pick a champ without computers. Tennis does it with tournaments.

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Welcome Back, Andre Agassi

Posted: Mar 10th 2009 9:00AM by FanHouse Newswire (author feed)

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Andre Agassi has at least one more tourney in him.

He will make his return to competitive tournament tennis by participating in the 30-and-over Outback Champions Series event at Surprise, Ariz., in October.

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Andy Murray Latest Top Seed to Fall at Australian Open

Posted: Jan 26th 2009 11:53AM by Mark Hasty (author feed)
Filed under: Grand Slam, Australian Open

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Andy Murray will have time to contemplate the pie floater this week. The No. 4-seeded Brit lost a five-set match to Spain's Fernando Verdasco (right) on Monday at the Australian Open, becoming the latest seeded player to get beat at a tournament that hasn't been kind to the "over-dogs."

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Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf Are Declaring War

Posted: Aug 4th 2008 3:00PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Beijing, USA

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In this exclusive video we talk to tennis legends Andre Agassi and his wife Steffi Graf, who tell us why they are raging war on obesity. Andre also says he does not miss playing and around 2:45 into the tape find out what advice this tennis great has for the USA Olympic team in Beijing.
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Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf Are Declaring War

Posted: Aug 4th 2008 2:30PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis, Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word

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Roger Federer Rolls with Flight of the Conchords in His New Nike Ad

Posted: Jul 3rd 2008 1:00AM by Will Brinson (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis

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Tennis is not particularly exciting to me. Tennis advertising has been even less so since the grunge-mullet days of Andre Agassi and Canon (sorry, Roddick, image is everything). But even I will admit that Roger Federer's most recent ad, which features Murray from HBO's Flight of the Conchords, is pretty awesome. It doesn't relate to the show much, but the Marvelian spoofness of a tennis ball war is still solid.

It takes a lot for a commercial to make me want to play tennis, and honestly, that ad actually pulled it off. Also, a continued series of these things, whereby Federer and Murray battled in comic book fashion with tennis balls over the world would be awesome.

H/T: Observation Bubble