Andre Agassi was born April 29, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Agassi is an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game’s most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.

In singles tennis, Agassi is an eight-time Grand Slam champion who competed in 15 Grand Slam finals and a 1996 Olympic gold medalist. His four Australian Open titles are an Open Era record (shared with Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer). Agassi retired from professional tennis on September 3, 2006, after losing in the third round of the US Open.

Agassi was married to Brooke Shields from 1997 to 1999. He married Steffi Graf on October 22, 2001 and is still married.

He is the founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, which has raised over $60 million for at-risk children in Southern Nevada.In 2001, the Foundation opened the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, a K-12 public charter school for at-risk children.

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