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Professional tennis players reach their peak around the age of After that they tend to ride off into the sunset, perhaps commentating or playing the adult tour for kicks. And in it seemed Andre Agassi was headed down that path. He tumbled to in the rankings and seemed to be enjoying his new life in Hollywood alongside wife Brooke Shields.

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However, it suddenly dawned on him that regardless of his age he could still compete. Andre was born on April 29, , to Mike and Betty Agassi. His father, a former boxing champ and Olympian from Iran, settled in Las Vegas taking work as a tennis instructor. And as soon as little Andre could walk, Mike taped a racket to his son's hand and hung a tennis ball over his crib.

Aged 13, he'd simply learned all he could from his dad. Mike shipped his son off to legendary coach Nick Bollettieri's famed tennis boot camp in Bradenton, Florida. But Andre didn't take to the rigours of the tennis academy and began to rebel, growing his hair and even wearing jeans to tournaments. In he left the camp, but retained Nick as his coach, turning pro aged just