Wimbledon Re-Lived 1992: Andre from the baseline

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Nobody expected Andre Agassi’s first Grand Slam title to come on grass at Wimbledon, a tournament he’d boycotted for a few years.

But Agassi always did things his own way, and when he won the tournament in 1992, he did it from the baseline, beating former champions Boris Becker and John McEnroe en route to the final, before overcoming the massive serve of Goran Ivanisevic in five sets.

Why was Agassi’s story such a big deal? What had happened in his first three Grand Slam finals for him to have developed a reputation for style over substance? And in what way was his return his biggest weapon against Ivanisevic in the final?

Larry Stefanki, who was coaching McEnroe at the time, contextualises Agassi’s feat and explains how he managed to beat so many classic grass courters. Chris Clarey of the New York Times, meanwhile, talks about what it was like to cover Agassi in the early 90s.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli.
0:02.0	I'm Matt Vylander.
0:03.0	This is Mary Carillo.
0:04.0	I'm Stan Ravinka.
0:05.0	I'm Lainey Nguyen.
0:06.0	I'm Andy Murray.
0:07.0	This is Janik Noah.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.0	Hello folks and welcome to what would have been day five of Wimbledon 2020,
0:25.0	the first day of third round action.
0:28.0	But what is in fact even better than that sort of day five of Wimbledon relived when we're taking a trip back to 1992
0:39.0	and spoiler alert, Andre Agassi's first Grand Slam title beating,
0:43.0	Gore and even Isavitch in a five set final in what would have been unfortunately for Gore and just the start of his Wimbledon final heartbreak,
0:52.0	which of course we know mercifully ended up in a happy tale which we'll be covering later on in our Wimbledon relived series.
1:01.0	But for today we're covering Andre Agassi's triumph and Gore and even Isavitch's heartbreak in the heart of the 90s David, your sweet spot.
1:10.0	Oh, I've just spent the last however long we've been watching that match just in ecstasy, in 90s ecstasy.
1:19.0	Because yeah, it's just such a treat to rewatch those matches because those are the matches that made me fall in love with the sport.
1:27.0	This was the year before and after where I became utterly obsessed with tennis and it's people like Andre Agassi and Gore and Iven Isavitch that were the reasons for that.
1:40.0	I didn't like Agassi at the time. I wanted everybody to beat him but watching it back I don't feel like that at all now.
1:46.0	Can you remember why? What did you take against in particular or you just being a contrarian like with Becker?
1:54.0	There was a definite there was a big part of that. There was a big part of being a contrarian. I had discovered tennis and part of me wanted to be an evangelist for the sport and get everybody else interested in it.
2:07.0	Another part of it wanted everybody to go away and leave me alone because this is my sport and you all coming along and watching Wimbledon and thinking you know all about it and telling me tennis fan about Andre Agassi and all you know about him.
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