His favored groundstroke was his flat, accurate two-handed backhand, hit well cross-court but especially down the line.

For both, it was considered a career rejuvenation, as Sampras had suffered a string of disappointments in the previous year while Agassi was regaining his status as a top-ranked player after winning the French Open. 6 Andre Agassi was among them, taking full advantage of the favorable draw to go all the way and become the first American with men's singles gold medal since Vincent Richards in Paris 1924! He won his first top-level singles title in 1987 at the Sul American Open in Itaparica and ended the year ranked No. While still a teenager, he reached the semi-finals of both the French Open and the In 1991, Agassi reached his second consecutive French Open final, where he faced fellow Bollettieri Academy alumnus Agassi's Grand Slam tournament breakthrough came at Wimbledon, not at the French Open or the US Open, where he had previously enjoyed success.
His wrist injury resurfaced, and he played only 24 matches during the year.
After a tough four-set win against The rivalry has been called the greatest of the generation of players competing in the 90's, as In the following 3 years, while Sampras continued winning Grand Slam titles every season, Agassi slumped in the rankings and struggled in major competitions. Agassi recovered from the injury and later that year defended his In 2003, Agassi won the eighth (and final) Grand Slam title of his career at the Australian Open, where he beat On April 28, 2003, he recaptured the No. 6, the highest jump into the top 10 made by any player during a calendar year.Agassi entered the history books in 1999 when he came back from two sets to love down to beat Agassi followed his 1999 French Open victory by reaching the Wimbledon final, where he lost to Sampras in straight sets.He began the next year by capturing his second Australian Open title, beating Sampras in a five-set semi-final and Agassi opened 2001 by successfully defending his Australian Open title with a straight-sets final win over 2002 opened with disappointment for Agassi, as injury forced him to skip the Australian Open, where he was a two-time defending champion. Photograph: Dimitri Iundt/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. The fourth game of the second set lasted for ten minutes and Bruguera converted the fifth break opportunity to break back and level the score at 2-2 before spraying a backhand error to give serve away and push Andre 3-2 in front. AFP/Getty Images. Arguably their best match took place in round 16 of the 1994 US Open. Agassi broke in the third game of the match, holding at love with an ace to cement the advantage and delivering another break at love that pushed him 4-1 in front after a double fault from Bruguera.Serving for the set, the American landed an ace at 5-2 to secure the opener, dropping two points behind the initial shot and hoping for more of the same in the rest of the clash. By the end of 1986, Agassi was ranked No. 1 in bold, as of week of March 16, 2020 In 1992, he defeated In 1993, Agassi won the only doubles title of his career, at the In 1995, Agassi shaved his balding head, breaking with his old "image is everything" style. 1 ranking after winning the In 2004, Agassi began the year with a five-set loss in the semi-finals of the Australian Open to Agassi's 2005 began with a quarterfinal loss to Federer at the Australian Open. Agassi withdrew from the Australian Open because of the ankle injury, and his back injury and other pains forced him to withdraw from several other events, eventually skipping the entire clay-court season including the French Open.

This caused his ranking to drop out of the top 10 for the last time.