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Here's a small sample from the beginning...mostly about Andre...but a LOT of nice about Kim and Federer also. (p106)...
the article is titled, "The King of Queens"...with the subheading: Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters won the US Open titles, but it was ageless Andre Agassi who owned the fans' hearts at Flushing Meadow." (small inset pic of Federer...FULL page photo of Andre....)
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p106)
"What will the kids remember? The big moments in the stadium, with thousands of people screaming their father's name? The little moments in between, like the time Dad bit that piece of candy in half so Jaden wouldn't choke on it, or the mornings Jaz brought him his coffee? Or maybe they'll remember that little playhouse with the slide next to it, just outside the players' lounge at Arthur Ashe stadium. They all spent a lot of time there during the two weeks that seemed to last forever.
Just after 4pm on Sunday, Andre Agassi was standing next to the house's tiny window when his three year old son told him the kind of thing parents laugh about for years. "Kick butt, Daddy," Jaden said.
Agassi pulled his 23-month-old daughter close then and, just before leaving for perhaps the most remarkable match in one of the sport's most remarkable careers, looked up at his wife, Steffi Graf, who knows something about winning Grand Slam finals, put on a sober look and clapped her hands. "Go get him," she said.
Agassi did as he was told. He turned and hustled into the building, passing his brother Philip, who had been in Flushing Meadow 20 years ago for Andre's first loss at the US Open. The two locked eyes and bumped fists, but Andre kept going. "He's just going to come out swinging," Philip said.
What will the kids remember? Maybe that the old man almost pulled it off...
(p107) full page pic of Andre
(p108)
"...Of course, no one had seen anything like Agassi before he broke onto the scene in 1986. Taking the ball impossibly early and wearing outrageous clothes, he embarked on a career marked by strange absences and confounding comebacks, odd eloquence and startling crassness, and he won three of his eight titles...when no one expected it. So despite Federer's excellence, despite the stirring breakthrough of Kim Clijsters to win her first major, this US Open belonged to Agassi."
BE SURE and pick up a copy...If this was Andre's last Open, this will become a collector's item mag....
jcm
the article is titled, "The King of Queens"...with the subheading: Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters won the US Open titles, but it was ageless Andre Agassi who owned the fans' hearts at Flushing Meadow." (small inset pic of Federer...FULL page photo of Andre....)
___________
p106)
"What will the kids remember? The big moments in the stadium, with thousands of people screaming their father's name? The little moments in between, like the time Dad bit that piece of candy in half so Jaden wouldn't choke on it, or the mornings Jaz brought him his coffee? Or maybe they'll remember that little playhouse with the slide next to it, just outside the players' lounge at Arthur Ashe stadium. They all spent a lot of time there during the two weeks that seemed to last forever.
Just after 4pm on Sunday, Andre Agassi was standing next to the house's tiny window when his three year old son told him the kind of thing parents laugh about for years. "Kick butt, Daddy," Jaden said.
Agassi pulled his 23-month-old daughter close then and, just before leaving for perhaps the most remarkable match in one of the sport's most remarkable careers, looked up at his wife, Steffi Graf, who knows something about winning Grand Slam finals, put on a sober look and clapped her hands. "Go get him," she said.
Agassi did as he was told. He turned and hustled into the building, passing his brother Philip, who had been in Flushing Meadow 20 years ago for Andre's first loss at the US Open. The two locked eyes and bumped fists, but Andre kept going. "He's just going to come out swinging," Philip said.
What will the kids remember? Maybe that the old man almost pulled it off...
(p107) full page pic of Andre
(p108)
"...Of course, no one had seen anything like Agassi before he broke onto the scene in 1986. Taking the ball impossibly early and wearing outrageous clothes, he embarked on a career marked by strange absences and confounding comebacks, odd eloquence and startling crassness, and he won three of his eight titles...when no one expected it. So despite Federer's excellence, despite the stirring breakthrough of Kim Clijsters to win her first major, this US Open belonged to Agassi."
BE SURE and pick up a copy...If this was Andre's last Open, this will become a collector's item mag....
jcm
