ATP/WTA: Agassi and Graf: “Life is more important than representing”

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf gave the Bild am Sonntag one of their rare joint interviews.

Respect and humour – these are the two qualities that hold the dream duo Stefanie Graf and Andre Agassi together. Graf told this in a conversation with the Sonntagsblatt. “We met at a moment when we could accept ourselves as we are. People always ask us, “Don’t you ever fight?” And we answer in the choir: “No!”

Agassi and Graf came together after the 1999 French Open, where they had both won – Graf in a three-set drama against Martina Hingis, Agassi in five sets against Andrej Medvedev. “That was the highlight, although I was actually at a low point in my career and thought I would never come back,” Agassi said.

However, your kids will not follow the two tennis legends. Jaden Gil (16) is active in baseball and has excellent coordination skills of eyes and hands, Graf continued. And 14-year-old Jaz Elle is very mature for her age – and creative.

For Agassi the encounter with Graf has changed a lot, he now looks at show business with different eyes, which he has always attracted, despite his shyness and insecurity. “Show business can remove you from yourself. To live only for the eyes of others is an illusion that can very easily break. Stefanie and I look alike. It’s more important to’live’ than just’represent’.”

Agassi continues: “You have to have your life in your own hands and decide how you want to live. There is no predetermined direction, you have to go ahead and learn to develop yourself. I am very dissatisfied by nature. “Every day I’m allowed to live, I always try to make the best of it.”