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With Wimbledon starting tomorrow, I

By Asad, June 23, 2003

With Wimbledon starting tomorrow, I was thinking about the fact that the figures who exert the most fascination are not the icy and controlled winners (Pete Sampras, Ivan Lendl) but those who appear human by virtue of their fallibility. Charisma in tennis appears to be correlated precisely to losing, whether heroically or straight-up choking, just like we would do, rather than exerting a robotic, insensitive ruthlessness. Johnny Mac gained more fans losing to Borg in ’80 than beating him in ’81. Goran Ivanisevic lost three excruciating Wimbledon finals before his miraculous redemption in 2001. Boris Becker lost more Wimbledon finals than he won. And then there is the player who incites more interest than anyone, Andre Agassi, the loser of five Grand Slam finals, whose mental fragility offsets his otherworldly hand-eye coordination (he recently returned in play a 149mph serve, the fastest ever recorded). His turnaround since hitting rock bottom in 1998 has given hope to headcases, underachievers, flakes, human beings planet-wide. And the most humanizing aspect of his comeback is the fact that, except on medium-slow hardcourts, he still loses. He can be blasted off a grass court, and retrievers can out-slide him on clay, and his brain still occasionally locks up. The difference is that he seems comfortable with, not tortured by, the losses, because the maximum effort he now gives minimizes his regrets about what he could have done differently. And that’s a cool place to be. Check out Agassi’s draw here (the third round match against the marvelous Younes El Aynaoui should be a doozy). Check the odds and put some money on him here. Go here to play with his racquet, or wear his shoes. Or here to find out what racquet you should play with, scientifically speaking.

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