Interviews
Andre Agassi Interview, part 2
"MY FIGHT FOR PEACE": Agassi reflects on his drug use, lies, fears, dreams and fight for self in an exclusive IT interview.
Inside Tennis: Okay, let’s start with a fool’s question. If you could go back and change one thing…
Andre Agassi: I would have changed my environment so that it would have allowed me to have an education, which would have kept me from a lot of angst. But I wouldn’t have had my wife, so that’s [...]
Andre Agassi Interview, part 1
"MY FIGHT FOR PEACE": Agassi reflects on his drug use, lies, fears, dreams and fight for self in an exclusive IT interview.
INSIDE TENNIS: In your book Open there’s a special voice. You go inside, reveal a lot and let ‘er rip.
ANDRE AGASSI: Yeah, I just didn’t see an alternative. It’s not in my DNA.
IT: Everyone says, “Let’s face it — he just wrote it for the money.”
AA: I’m never going to minimize money, but what blows [...]
Agassi Insists He Never Took Steroids, Criticizes Federer
In an exclusive hour-long interview with Inside Tennis, Andre Agassi reflected on his drug use, his lying and the intense response of Federer and others. A small excerpt.
Monica Seles
"It Wasn’t What I Was Eating, It Was What Was Eating Me"
IT: Congratulations. How does it sound, Monica Seles Hall of Famer?
MS: It’s so exciting. I worked on this book for nine months and now to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the same time is fantastic. I look back, what a humble beginning. Then I started playing tennis and look where it took [...]
John McEnroe
“Maybe it’s just that I’m just not a ‘yes’ guy.”
It all changed three decades ago, when a cocky lean kid with a mean serve and a sweet touch cut a jagged yet imposing swath across sport and culture. Veins popping, hair asunder, amidst a shower of stunning winners our simmering suburban samurai emerged.
“Answer the question!” “You’re the pits of the world!” “You cannot be [...]
The Bryan Bros. and the Woodies
Let’s talk dubs. At Wimbledon IT gathered the preeminent double team of our day, U.S. Open champs Mike and Bob Bryan, and one of the best doubles team in history, Aussie Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde.
INSIDE TENNIS: Do we need any introductions here? Just kidding. No? Okay, Mark and Todd, when “The Bryans” come to [...]
Brad Gilbert and Mary Carillo
It’s ‘un-ignorable.’ The tennis world is changing. IT’s Matthew Cronin got ace analysts Mary Carillo and Brad Gilbert to unplug and candidly assess Roddick, Blake, the Williams sisters and America’s hopes for a tennis resurgence.
INSIDE TENNIS: We’ve heard time and again that there’s a crisis in U.S. Player Development. Others argue there isn’t one, that [...]