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In introducing Andre Agassi to a Palo Alto audience Friday, the moderator noted that the tennis star's autobiography recently hit No. 1 on the bestseller list. Agassi smiled to the crowd at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. "I finally did something my wife hasn't done," he said, referring to Steffi Graf, winner of 22 Grand Slam titles.

I finally did something my wife hasn't done   -Andre Agassi

 

Andre Agassi has admitted using crystal meth and then lying to tennis antidoping authorities in 1997 to escape sanctions after testing positive for the drug. But Adam Helfant, the new head of the ATP Tour, said earlier this week that he considered it highly unlikely the tour would try to pursue or punish Agassi retroactively. "Quite simply," Helfant said in a telephone interview, "even if we wanted to, we couldn't because he's no longer an active player."

even if we wanted to, we couldn’t because he’s no longer an active player.   -Adam Helfant

 

ANDY KEE won a double in the Mydin-Head Malaysian Senior age group super doubles tennis championships at the National Tennis Centre in Jalan Duta recently. His first successful outing was in the men's 45-50 years age group. Kee teamed up with Marco Winter and defeated Khairudin Baharom-Zulkifli Kadir 6-4, 6-2 in the final.  

U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro will play at next year's Queen's Club tournament in an effort to improve his grasscourt game ahead of Wimbledon. The fifth-ranked Argentine beat Roger Federer in the U.S. Open final but has never advanced past the second round in three appearances at Wimbledon. Del Potro says "this is the perfect opportunity for me to improve my game on the surface. Many players have done well at Queen's in the past and then gone on to win at Wimbledon. I hope that this can hap

this is the perfect opportunity for me to improve my game on the surface. Many players have done well at Queen's in the past and then gone on to win at Wimbledon. I hope that this can happen for me also.   -Juan Martin Del Potro

 

The place to go is My Little Tennis Club, which is offering a new tennis program that enables children as young as 3-years-old to take lessons. The sports facility is accessed off Brewster Street across from Showcase Cinema. Schaper, who is certified by the U.S. Professional Tennis Association, offers Quickstart Tennis, a program endorsed by the International Tennis Federation, for youngsters 3 to 6, 7 to 9 or 9 to 11, taught in classes ranging from 45 to 60 minutes.  

Amman - About 3,000 Jordanians demonstrated in Amman on Friday to protest what they called an Israeli conspiracy against al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. The rally, organized by ... New York - A Miley Cyrus tour bus flipped off a wet road in central Virginia Friday, leavingone person dead and others injured, state police told WTVR broadcaster in Richmond, Virginia.  

NICO ROBINSON (pictured) pulled off the only Guernsey win in the four age group tennis finals held at Les Ormes at the weekend, but all were hotly contested and the Sarnian competitors performed well. The AIB Grand Prix finalists had all earned their place against their top Jersey counterpart by competing in all the major junior Channel Island events during the year, accumulating points for entering and more points based on how far into each draw they got. The AIB finals are held on the show courts se  

It's game, set and match for local tennis legend Keith Smith MBE who is hanging up his racket and retiring from the court at the end of the month. Boughey Gardens Head Coach Keith will officially step down at this season's Junior Presentation night at Harper Adams on November 30. And it will be a fitting place to depart for a man who has coached thousands of children throughout his career spanning 40 years.

It got to the stage where I was coming off the court in agony so I through it was time to call it a day.   -Keith Smith

 

It was time to high five 1,300 passionate and celebrating supporters of Midland, Michigan as this Midwestern community celebrated its newly-won status as America's Best Tennis Town with a free celebration for everyone, hosted by the Midland Community Tennis Center. The MCTC was robust with energy as a community came together to celebrate their accomplishment. Food, free commemorative t-shirts, and tennis for kids was taken in by all.

All of our elementary schools, middle schools and high schools will have new equipment to teach tennis   -Mike Woody