When he was on, he never halfwayed anything, as Mac said.

I think Sampras had an incredibly consistent 2nd serve which won him all those Wimbledons. Otherwise, Agassi was the better all court player.

@@scottrackley4457biggest underachiever in tennis

Agassi just didn't trust himself like Sampras did. He made so many silly mistakes for so many years. Not trusting his volleying skills, counter punching against players with serious weapons, etc. In 2001 he picked things up and had the edge on his old rival. Sadly he was also very unlucky at times. He was injured and overweight when defending his Wimbledon title in 1993 and he came so close to defending his title. He played the US Open final the day after the semifinal in 1995 AND again in 2002. Nobody makes me care more that Andre and Pete may have had a few more lucky breaks and less emotional baggage, but he as also, only just, the better tennis player.

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Can't agree more on that, absolute class

Very well said, THE greatest returner in the history of of this beautiful sport !!👍👌

I read it too!

Same!

Hahah, same bro!

Omg same lol

yes, have you read his book 'Open' - it's amazing, funny, and sad all at the same time

I'm Serbian and talking to my dad I brought up Agassi's return game and he's like Nole's is better. Settle down pops. Glad someone else agrees

@@alazic9999 Nole's return of weaker serves are top notch. He always returns with amazing depth. Statistically Nole's returns are better than Agassi, but I enjoy Agassi taking the ball early and thus using the servers power against them. Interestingly, Nole has the worse stats of the Big 3 against servebots.

Yea nice fedaltard

YES! he's the only player who could send a Sampras serve back at the same speed with which it came

If it comes back, you didn´t hit it hard enough :D

yes, I agree. But he admitted the use of drugs during his professional career, so this was a shock to me, it´s simply not fair. When using drugs you can tolerate fatigue and pain better. He was a great player but this drug stuff was kind of swallowing a bitter pill for me

misko misko he was on meth, not steroids. STFU and let the adults talk.

@@mantaiscool he used meth so it wasn t something that helped him for the competition

hey belong to a criminal enterprise

Ignorant people focus on his past. Learn all the amazing things he does for children and charities. You wish you were one thousandth as successful and talented as Andre and Steffi.

Ayup, Becker, Ivanicivc, Fed, and anyone else who wanted some

Not to mention his nemesis, Sampras. He even got over on him sometimes, prolly the best server ever.

But WHY is he this good : speed / anticipation / reaction / alertness / agility / precognition / a higher learning / a deeper love ?!

@Marko Anderson he faced superior servers and beat them all, Sampras, Becker, Ivancovic , Federer, and sent them all back with pace and interest!

@@kincaidscourt8768 I'd say his anticipation and reaction was his best attributes, but his pace was par excellance.

@@scottrackley4457 ... I asked ROGER - and he said : all of this (anticipation / reaction / pace) would have been useless (a lot of players had - and have - similar assets !) - but ANDRE had such a compact swing / such minimal backswing movement / such a perfect timing ... that he (and only HE - there NEVER was / or is - a returner like him) was ABLE to do the returns like he did ... HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY today, ya "wig-wiggling wussie" - LUV YA !

​@@kincaidscourt8768 And yet quite paradoxically, against two big servers in the finals of Wimbledon 1992 (Ivanisevic) and FO 1999 (Medvedev), he took more aces than any other opponents each had met on their way to the final. He conceded 37 aces to Ivanisevic, 23 to Medvedev. In the catastrophic first two sets against Medvedev, Agassi didn't win a single point out of Medvedev 19 first serves. Although these matches were 5-setters, there are many arguable reasons for this : servers knew they were under greater pressure and were hyper-focused on their serve; Agassi's return position -close to the baseline- allowed the opponent to make more aces, while also pushing them -at some point in the match- to suffer a drop in their first serve percentage and be more exposed. It's arguable that Agassi was not an outsanding first-serve returner (never could handle Sampras serve -nobody could anyway) but was just an incredible second serve returner.

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Agreed. As a shot in itself, the service return by Agassi is in a different dimension. The guy is standing 20 feet closer to the server than Djokovic and firing lasers back, finding angles that didn’t seem to exist.

Nope. Nadal is a better defender than Djokovic.

More inportantly, he attacked the ball on the rise. Most big servers were recovering while the ball was sailing past them.

@@scottrackley4457 spot on

yeah. and the way he climbed all over second serves intimidated servers, making them try that little bit harder on first serves, which meant more faults, and more second serves to attack. it was a complete reversal of the usual dynamic of tennis, where the server sets the terms of the point, and it was great to watch.

@@evilotis01 agree

Thank you! I thought Djoker was better but you make a great case. Easily both are the best returners.

Connors? Oh no, not even close. He's not even in the conversation.

@@chancock4222 Perhaps he was referring to Connors' skills as a defender.

Agassi's sister married, Rita, married Pancho Gonzales, even though there was a big age difference between them It didn't last long and Agassi's dad apparently talked about getting a hitman to kill Gonzales.When Pancho Gonzales died in 1995 Andre Agassi paid for his funeral.

@@martydav9475 I know these people belong in a criminal organization your comment solidify my experience with them. They belong to a criminal enterprise - I encountered them after a FRAUD investigation

so many awful tennis fathers. just reading today about poor Jelena Dokic almost trying to kill herself recently, years after she escaped her terrible father.

Andre's pidgeon-toed walk adds to the effect. He hits an amazing shot, then casually walks to the other side like it's no big deal. It's like when my cat chases a squirrel. He'll dart all over really fast, but when the squirrel runs up the tree and the cat can't he'll walk away slowly like it was no big deal.

exactlyyyyyyyyy

RIGHT YOU ARE MAN, right you are - hate this "I AM THE GREATEST" attitude by Nadal, Djokovisch, Monfils and all the other dwarves- compared-to Andre, Pete, John, Ivan, Björn, Ivan and Jimmy - there will NEVER be players like them !

No question about it in my opinion, Agassi had the Greatest EVER return of Serve in the history of Tennis ....yes, better than Novak’s!!

I agree but that was him in his "second act". The earlier iteration of Andre, his "image is everything" persona rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Only when he realized that talent and flair could only take him so far did he acquire the work ethic that helped him become the player you described.

@@carseye1219 yep

Haha this really cracked me up!

amen, the best serve ever, returned, with interest

@@martydav9475 Fair enough, he certainly made some players second guess it.

@ppm120667 wimbledon? no contest agassi basically became a spectator pete was beating him so bad.

The three most talented players ever: Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and John McEnroe.

Steve Walters I love roger but I think rafa deserves to be in the convo as well.

return shot not game

I said what I said.

Only because Andre had to face better servers. Novak is no joke, but Andre will be my fave.

Good point. His take back on the backhand is a little shorter and that gives him a little more margin for error but Serena and Venus may generate a little more of their own pace. Agassi was the master of using his opponent's pace against them where the Williams's had to make their own which to me was always more difficult to control. Mad respect to all three.

The fuck does that mean?

Borg was the same, he and Conners always took the ball on the rise

Dojokovic is actually but lucky also , nadal has bad knee and fedder too is not in good since 2018 …. So he is leveraging all this in grand slams ….

That was when Nike made the mistake of not contributing enough to charity. He wanted them to make a fat donation to his foundation and Nike wasn't about the amount he wanted and Adidas was like, "hell yeah! Here's a check!" Then Nike wised up after his Adidas contract expired and he went back to them after he retired.

@@chancock4222 Andre's philanthropy is pretty amazing. His school is Vegas is fantastic.

Gael Sandoval for a few months in 1997, in a year when it obviously didn’t help his performance.

no

some of it looked like 16mm home movies from the 1950s....horrible

Hence, with a handicap

Juan Manuel Alvarez not really it allowed him to possess incredible ENERGY. i think it's a real shame. i'm a 4.5 USTA rated player and I never played under the influence of crystal methanphetamine---------- jus sayn

@@conqururfear for a very short amount of minutes, you know little od drgus, andnhe damaged his organism, furthermore, when Marcelo Rios lost to petr korda ao 1997 he was asked about korda doping and he said "it has nothing to do with the match"

@Logic M i have cocaine consuming friend who used to played high level soccer, common here in argentina, they never ahowed improvement, only overconfidence that led to errors, hence, they were handicaped

Juan Manuel Alvarez And what is your USTA rating, 2.5 LOL period. I didn’t mean to offend you I know that works for 12 years and it was sad when I became a 4.5 doubles player ITS amazing the number of opponents who avoid you when you get to be good