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Legendary tennis icon Andre Agassi shared his brutal take on modern-day tennis icon Carlos Alcaraz. He said that Alcaraz combines the best qualities of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal but cautioned that the Spaniard might not repeat the incredible heroics of the ‘Fab Three’. It is to be noted that Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have a combined tally of 66 Grand Slams and the 21-year-old has so far won four Majors.
Agassi appeared on a talk session during the Marathon Mindset at the TiE Global Summit and said, “I’m not a genius and I don’t have a crystal ball. What I can tell you is Alcaraz defends like Novak, has power and spin like Nadal and has hands and finesse like Federer.” The eight-time Grand Slam winner then outlined the reason to not burden Alcaraz with many expectations. He added, “I’m not a genius and I don’t have a crystal ball. What I can tell you is Alcaraz defends like Novak, has power and spin like Nadal and has hands and finesse like Federer.”
Americans now are starting to prove to the other Americans: Andre Agassi
The American tennis icon also backed players from his country and said that the new generation of American players have the ability to bring the nation back to the top spots in the tennis world. He said, “I was the first one to turn pro. I made (Michael) Chang, Pete, (Jim) Courier believe they could do it. And then Chang was the first one to win (Grand Slam), Pete believed that he could win, and made Courier believe that he could win, and then Courier said, well, I can not only win, I can be number one in the world.”
He added, “And I was saying, wait a second, what the hell about me? So we all helped each other in a lot of ways, and I think these Americans now are starting to prove to the other Americans that not only they can do it.”
