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- Andre Agassi burst onto
- the tennis scene in 1986
- with long bleached-blond
- hair and flashy clothes.
- He became famous right
- away, but not for being a great tennis
- player. Lately, Andre has concentrated
- more on his game than his image, and that
- hard work has paid off. In 1995, he passed
- Pete Sampras to become the number
- 1-ranked player in the world.
-
- Andre started playing tennis at a young
- age. His father Mike, a former Olympic
- boxer, was determined to have a tennis
- star in the family.
-
- When Andre was just a baby, his
- father hung a tennis ball over
- his crib to develop his eye movement. When Andre could sit in a high chair, Mr. Agassi would stick a Ping-Pong paddle in his hand and
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