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Honored at the USTA Foundation Gala, Andre Agassi Speaks on Serves, Style—and That Mullet

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Andre Agassi is regarded as one of the greatest professional tennis players of all time. He is an eight-time Grand Slam champion and an Olympic gold medalist. He’s also one of a few elite players in history to achieve a career Grand Slam (winning the US Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and Australian Open). Renowned for his aggressive baseline dominance and explosive return of serve—as well as his bold on-court fashion and glorious mullet—Agassi revolutionized tennis during his two-decade career. Off the court, he’s a longtime advocate for helping children through the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education and the Agassi Prep Academy in Las Vegas.

On Sunday evening—the first night of the 2025 US Open singles main draw—the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Foundation, which provides tennis and education programs to more than four million under-resourced youth around the country, honored Agassi for his tireless philanthropic service by bestowing him with the prestigious Serving Up Dreams Award during its 24th annual Opening Night Gala. A star-studded crowd, including Spike Lee, Tina Knowles, Vera Wang, Katie Couric, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, and Anna Wintour, gathered inside the exclusive President’s Suite at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York, to toast the tennis champ. Gayle King emceed the dinner, and Alec Baldwin led an entertaining fundraising auction ahead of the evening’s thrilling first-round match: four-time US Open winner Novak Djokovic versus American teen Learner Tien. (Djokovic clinched the win in three straight sets.)

“The USTA Foundation and I, we share the same passion for making a difference in people’s lives through education and sports. But as much as I have poured myself into education, it’s given me much more. It’s like when you empty yourself, you actually get filled,” Agassi told Vogue during the gala’s cocktail hour, when asked what receiving the Serving Up Dreams Award meant to him. “So as a result, I don’t need to be celebrated for it. It’s already given me a lot.”

Agassi, dressed in a custom Rag & Bone black suit, shared that he found his true purpose by focusing on helping children rather than constantly striving to win Grand Slams. He didn’t realize that until he hit a low point in his career and personal life in 1997. “I went from being No. 1 in the world and fell to 141 in the world. I felt really disconnected with my life,” he explained. “I was an unhappy person, and then I started to focus on the Foundation.” Agassi started his foundation in 1994 when he was 23 years old, but he rediscovered his passion for tennis when he fully directed his attention to others. “It gave me my reason. I would have quit tennis a lot of times, but once I took on the responsibility of helping kids who didn’t have choices. Tennis wasn’t my choice in life, and so it really resonated with me, it gave me my reason, which gave me my second part of my career, which gave me my wife [22-time Grand Slam winner Steffi Graf], and my kids,” he said. “So I’m really grateful for it.”

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