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Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American 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.
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* Tennis player Andre Agassi quoted the poem in his autobiography, Open.
Instead, he became one of the youngest winners of an Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Next Generation Adelaide International, defeating Andre Agassi in the semifinals.
Andre Agassi chose to skip Wimbledon from 1988 through 1990 citing the event's traditionalism, particularly its " predominantly white " dress code.
On August 5, Andre Agassi wins the 1992 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles.
The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they turned professional.
Sampras debuted on the professional tour in 1988 and played his last top-level tournament in 2002 when he won the US Open, defeating rival Andre Agassi in the final.
His first professional singles title came in February at the Ebel U. S. Pro Indoor in Philadelphia, where he defeated sixth-ranked Andre Agassi, eighth-ranked Mayotte, and eighteenth-ranked Andrés Gómez in the final.
His victory over Andre Agassi in the Wimbledon final is often cited as one of Sampras's greatest performances ( despite this, he lost his no.
Sampras's ranking was hurt through a combination of withdrawing from the Australian and US Opens, tournaments in which he had strong performances during the previous year, and the resurgence of longtime rival Andre Agassi, putting an end to Sampras ' six consecutive years of finishing as the world number 1.
On August 2010 Sampras played an exhibition game with Andre Agassi at the indoor arena Coliseo Cubierto El Campin in Bogotá, Colombia.
The following year along with Federer, Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal, he played an exhibition doubles match at Indian Wells to raise money for the people of Haiti who had been affected by the earthquake.
Both Lleyton Hewitt and Venus Williams were unsuccessful in their title defences, Hewitt being defeated in the semi-finals by Andre Agassi and Venus being defeated in the final by her younger sister Serena.
* 2002 US Open: Pete Sampras defeats Andre Agassi in four sets to win his record 14th major.
Spring Valley is the home of tennis players Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, as well as Sacramento Kings owners George and Gavin Maloof.
She married former World No. 1 men's tennis player Andre Agassi in October 2001.
Graf played a singles exhibition match against Kim Clijsters and a mixed doubles exhibition alongside husband Andre Agassi against Tim Henman and Clijsters as part of a test event and celebration for the newly installed roof over Wimbledon's Centre Court.
She and her husband, Andre Agassi, were on Team Elton John who competed against Team Billie Jean King.
He also helped Austria reach the semifinals of Davis Cup, where they were eliminated 3 2 by the United States despite Muster winning both his singles rubbers against Andre Agassi and Michael Chang.
At the 1989 US Open, Connors defeated the third seed ( and future two-time champion ), Stefan Edberg, in straight sets in the fourth round and pushed sixth-seeded Andre Agassi to five sets in a quarterfinal.
This makes Wilander one of only five men ( along with Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer ) to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts.
He lost in the fourth round of the Australian Open to MaliVai Washington, the first round of the French Open to Andre Agassi ( 6 2, 7 5, 6 1 ), and the first round of the US Open to Guy Forget.
Wilander last played in Davis Cup in the 1995 semifinals, where he lost to Andre Agassi 7 6 ( 5 ), 6 2, 6 2 and Pete Sampras 2 6, 7 6 ( 4 ), 6 3.

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This year saw another set of elections ; on 6 December, with Dionisio Anzilotti elected President and Charles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President.
Wide receiver Andre Reed led the team with 65 receptions for 913 yards and 3 touchdowns, receiver James Lofton contributed 51 receptions for 786 yards and 6 touchdowns, and wide receiver Don Beebe caught 33 passes for 554 and 2 touchdowns.
Pro Bowl wide receiver Andre Reed led the team with 52 receptions for 854 yards and 6 touchdowns ; wide receiver Bill Brooks had 60 receptions for 714 yards and 5 touchdowns ; and wide receiver Don Beebe recorded 31 receptions for 504 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Bills receiver Andre Reed finished the game with 6 receptions for 75 yards to lead Buffalo, with Don Beebe catching 6 passes for 60 yards and returned 2 kickoffs for 63 yards.
During the offseason they also re-signed valuable restricted free agents Louis Williams and Andre Iguodala for 5 yr /$ 25 million and 6 yr /$ 80 million, respectively.
In Game 6, Andre Iguodala sank two free throws with 2. 2 seconds left to put the 76ers up 79-78 after getting fouled by Ömer Aşık, who had missed two free throws five seconds earlier.
The other male players in the open era with winning percentages over 80 are Björn Borg ( 89. 8 ), Rafael Nadal ( 87. 6 ), Roger Federer ( 87. 4 ), Pete Sampras ( 84. 2 ), Jimmy Connors ( 82. 6 ), Ivan Lendl ( 81. 9 ), John McEnroe ( 81. 5 ), Novak Djokovic ( 81. 1 ) and Andre Agassi ( 80. 9 ).
He beat Tommy Robredo in four sets to reach the quarterfinals, succumbing to Andre Agassi in a fifth-set tiebreak, losing 3 6, 3 6, 6 3, 6 3, 7 6.

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* 1936 Andre Dubus, American writer ( d. 1999 )
* 1984 Andre ' Woodson, American football player
* 1961 Andre Andersen, Russian / Danish multi-instrumentalist and composer
* 1934 Andre Rodgers, baseball player ( d. 2004 )
* 1959 Andre Tippett, American football player
* 2004 Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player ( b. 1934 )
* 1982 Andre Barrett, American basketball player
* 1954 Andre Dawson, American baseball player
* 1962 Andre Braugher, American actor
* 1945 Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach ( d. 1972 )
* 1981 Andre Johnson, American football player
* 1979 Andre Carter, American football player
* 1970 Andre Nickatina, American rapper
* 1990 Andre Tyson, English professional wrestler
* 1935 Carl Andre, American sculptor
* 1971 Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and author ( Viper, Angra, Shaman, and Symfonia )
* 1982 Andre Dirrell, American boxer
* January 29 Andre Reed, NFL player
* January 28 Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
* May 8 Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1994 )
Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet the Clairvaux Mutineers were guillotined at La Sante Prison by chief executioner Andre Obrecht ( already suffering from Parkinson's Disease ).
* August 11 Andre Dubus, American short-story writer ( d. 1999 )
* July 1 Andre Braugher, American actor

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