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Andre Agassi... Remembering 1992 Wimbledon

Editor's Note: This feature story first appeared on ATPWorldTour.com in June 2012. Green fees are around $500 per round. Tee times are one-hour apart. Only a handful of guests each day get to play the 7,239-yard Shadow Creek Golf Course, built by business magnate Steve Wynn, in 1989, in northern Las Vegas. Here Andre Agassi came to re-group immediately after his 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 loss to Jim Courier, his former Bollettieri Academy sparring partner, in the 1992 Roland Garros semi-finals. Speaking exclusively to ATPWorldTour.com, Agassi remembers, 20 years on, “When we were playing, Steve asked me, ‘So what is next?’ I said, ‘Wimbledon.’ He asked, ‘Do you think you can win it?’ I told him, ‘Very few people show up...

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