Andre Agassi dishes out on his most special Major win
In an interview to Times of India, the eight-time Grand Slam winner Andre Agassi shared what was his most special Major title out of the eight he won in his career. Agassi indicated the 1999 French Open: "The first one I could have won, first one I should have won. The last one that I knew I would never have a chance to win again. So after I fell to 150 in the world, after I got a divorce, I was old enough to understand it. It was a microcosm of my life, that tournament. I was down two sets in the finals and, a lot like life."
Agassi also commented on how technology and social media have affected the current generation: "I think you guys scare the crap out of a lot of them. Blame them, blame you, blame whoever you want, but I think being politically correct is not being politically correct. It's a pretty scary proposition these days. In this day and age of social media, something blows out of proportion so easily When I played, what you said is what you said in its full context but now you are guilty until proven innocent. So it makes everybody a little on edge, I would imagine, especially those that don't even really know themselves yet as they're growing up in the public eye. I don't know if social media would have changed me and Pete, because we were always good with each other. But I think the scrutiny now is tough. I mean if people lived in my life, they would like me a lot less, you know, at times. There's mistakes you make, the things you say, I mean it wouldn't be hard to find a moment in our lives where we were less than we should have been. So some of it's timing and some of it's luck. But I don't have any commentary on the context of how all this has changed. I just know that you need to be incredibly thoughtful these days, more so than in the past. In the past you got to be thoughtful, now you better be thoughtful. But are you surprised by how much warmth there is among the great rivals today? Yeah, I mean, surprised enough to not know if I should believe it."
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