All those in sports and media who were calling for tennis great Serena Williams to be fined, suspended, and maybe even stripped of her Australian Open title after he outburst at a line judge are dead quiet now. Stunned silence greated Andre Agassi's revelation he took crystal meth and lied to ATP officials about his usage in his new autobiography Open. Those ATP officials allowed him to skate on positive drug test results during his heyday. It will be interesting to see what, if any, repercussions these confessions have on his legacy and retention of his eight grand slam titles. At the time of his drug use, Agassi was married to teen screen queen Brooke Shields; he subsequently married tennis great Steffi Graf.
I'm not much of a tennis fan, but this is surprising news. I'll have to read his autobiography that is due out next month to find out more.
ReplyDeleteThis is shocking and dissapointing. I thought he was one of the good ones. I agree he probably won't have any disciplinary action and people will jsut brush it off.
ReplyDeleteandre can go to the US Open, sit in the front row, drink a slushie, eat a hot dog, smack steffi graf on the ass and do a line of blow in one of the programs, hes not active anymore-what he did 15 yrs ago don't matter-what serena did yesterday does
ReplyDeleteAgassi's drug use does matter because he lied to the tennis authorities and they helped him cover it up after he admitted he had contact with the drug. He should be stripped of his titles.
ReplyDeleteOf course he will get away with it. He is white and part of tennis royalty. If this were Venus or Serena they would be out on their asses already.
ReplyDeleteit's too bad about Agassi, here I thought Tennis was one of the cleaner pro sports out there... looks like horseshoes is the only one left
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