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Practiced with Ilie Nastase and Jimmy Connors as a youngster. 1996 Summer Olympics champion. He and Steffi Graf are the only players in history to win all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal. Print and TV ads for cell phone company T-Mobile with Steffi Graf debuted in Europe. The ads were shot in Las Vegas. [26 April 2002] Surpassed $1 million in career prize money in December 1988, after just 43 tournaments -- the quickest player in history to do so. The original name of his father was Agassian but he changed his name to Agassi when he went to America. Former brother-in-law of Pancho González. González and Rita Agassi's son, Skylar, played on Bishop-Gorman High School's (Las Vegas) tennis team. After losing in the first round in 1987, Agassi passed up Wimbledon three years in a row. The reason he gave was that he wasn't allowed to wear his colorful outfits. With only their mothers as witnesses, Agassi and Steffi Graf were married at his Las Vegas home by District Judge Michael Cherry. So secret was the ceremony, the rest of Agassi's family didn't learn of it until after the fact. [22 October 2001] The Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a charter school for underprivileged children, opens in West Las Vegas. It is jointly funded by the Agassi Foundation and the Nevada State Department of Education. (August 30, 2001) Has a "career" Grand Slam: the Australian (1995; 2000; 2001; 2003), Roland Garros (1999), Wimbledon (1992) and the U.S. Open (1994; 1999). As of September 2005, he is 8-7 in Grand Slam singles finals. Career singles match record: 860-265; career singles titles: 60; prize money: $30,951,275 (as of September 2005) Armenian and Assyrian on his father's side. Always bows and kisses to the public after having won a match. Is one of only 6 players to have won more than 800 matches. Won the Australian Open in 1995, which was his first time ever competing in it. It also marked his first and only victory over Pete Sampras in a Grand Slam singles final. In 2006, he donated $1,070,000 to the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation. Two months after he resigned as Agassi's business manager in October 2008, Perry Rogers sued Steffi Graf for $50,000 in management fees. Son-in-law of Peter Graf and Heidi Graf.