Andre Agassi is 53 years old: Brooke Shields and Steffi Graf, drugs, fake hair and the “dragon” shoots balls

“Preparing for retirement is like preparing for death. No one knows what it will be like, no one knows when it will happen.” For Andre Agassi, the day came nearly 17 years ago, on September 3, 2006. He was 36 years old: he was born on April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas. US Open, Flushing Meadows, third round against German Benjamin Becker: Agassi started crying already on match point, which Becker converted with an ace before putting his hands to his face as if in guilt. Then, minutes and minutes of applause, with the whole audience (23,000 spectators) standing up to pay due thanks to one of the strongest – and least banal – of all time.