Boris Becker didn't like Andre Agassi's joke. The ending is the best. RR Master 1989
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- Boris Becker and Andre Agassi played in the round robin match of the 1989 master. Agassi true to his image decides to make a joke to Becker and.........
My impression is that no one understand the REAL story today. I remember watching this match live on the TV. What I remember: Becker had just served one game of 4 aces. Then he served again, another ace. At this point, jokingly, Agassi went in the flower pot to show his "fear" of Becker's serve. Becker served a slow 1st serve, which went in, but Agassi did not make it in time and missed the return. The umpire wanted to give the point to Becker, but Becker insisted that they repeat the point because he indeed had some humour. So he served again --> out. Second serve --> big return by Agassi.
You have explained very well what happened except for Becker's attitude after the point won on the first serve. It was the referee who understood the joke and made Becker reconsider to repeat the point since he was going to sit down with the game won.
Agassi saw that he left him in evidence and from there the final rest showing his pride.
thank you!
Becker absolutely got the joke. But his dead pan serious attitude often makes him seem incapable of humor. But remember Becker jokingly pretending to drop the Wimbeldon trophy? And have you ever seen Becker loose his temper? Nope. So he obviously has a keen and agreeable sense of humor. And yes I was old enough to see this match live.
@@ericseaman125 grammatically, the English language cannot make a sentence with the words "German" and "humour" without a negative word included.
@@JuandeFucaU ha ha yes! I should have substituted the word Kraut for humour.
Agassi had one of the best returns I ever seen. Great reactions.
Agassi revealed a secret to Becker about him. When Becker would serve, he would stick his tongue out. Agassi caught on that wherever Becker's tongue pointed, his serve would follow. Tongue in left corner of mouth=Serve to AA Forehand Tongue in Right corner of mouth=Serve to AA Backhand. AA told him what he knew after Becker retired. He told AA that he would sit and home and tell his wife.... It's like he's reading my mind when I serve. AA was on another level
Agreed. One of the bestiest returns I ever seened if I ever did seened one.
@@alexandersupertramp7353 incredible and great story 😅 👍 thanks man to share
Underrated comment you should put it in the main section ☝️
And Wig 😅
@@alexandersupertramp7353 But you omitted one key thing: Agassi would not look all the time against Boris, fearing he would catch on to his own tell if he overdid it. He only looked at his tongue during very important points, Andre said.
Boom boom becker, the youngest ever wimbledon CHAMPION at the age of 17.
Amazing cant see that happening again
Agassi better...
Yes. But, only the man fell asleep during his services..
Yes, and many people thought it was a fluke. Then Boris came back the next year and won it again.
@@StephenDoty84 I always felt if becker had a little bit more patience at least was grounded like Edberg, becker would have achieved even more grand slams. Still Becker was my fav.
I'm a little bit old fashioned in tennis, I always loved serve & volley than hitting with two hands with sheer power. The one handed back hand & single handed forehand is still a joy to watch. After Federer's retirement I just stopped watching tennis. According to me Federer was the last serve & volley player.
Life is a crazy thing...just one word or smile, could make them friends today. I am writing this based on Agassi's Autobiography book
Through prison glass maybe. Their lives went in completely different directions since each retried.
Becker's first serve was legal even if Agassi had been standing next to the crowd. Big mistake from the umpire.
Falsch da die linienrichter vor ihm standen war es nicht legal da beim weder beim Aufschlag noch beim ballwechsel eine dritte person zwischen den Spieler auf dem Feld stehen darf.
Mistake from umpire. Agassi chose to stand there. That moment itself umpire should have stopped the point or given it to Boris ‘cause his serve was legal. He didnot try even underarm.
@@dirkdirk5126wo steht das?
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Man I miss men’s tennis! Younger it was Connors, Agassi, Becker, McEnroe, Borg etc…so good
And don't forget Sampras...today's tennis is full of boring baseline rallies played by some cowards.
Yes Sampras was crazy good…yup!
@@s16er cowards kept slowing the courts ... even grass ... Safin was thanking organizers for that ... reaching SF at Wimbledon ...
Goran,Edberg,Stich,Courier,Chang...good old days🥹🤷♂️
Federer, Nadal or Djokovic better players than those others.
Two legends having fun…awesome!!! Chefs kiss to the moon & back
Not sure that Becker was kidding....
They didn't really like each other...
Agassi crushed that second serve.
Becker handled it well. I don't like when people hide behind humour to gain advantage (by disrupting the opponents rhythm, in this case).
Like Becker did here at 4:33? th-cam.com/video/qZIIG2sH8EI/w-d-xo.html
I don't think AA was doing that. BB probably took it that way because that's the kind of stuff he would pull.
or drugs, as in Agassi's case. Amazing it's hardly mentioned since he admitted it.
Cry us a river…
@@ncf1lol Agassi took drugs to gain a disadvantage
That was a ferocious return of serve at the end.
Well it was a fairly non threatening second serve.
Agassi was the greatest returner in the entire history of tennis.
@@YogsenForfoth Yeah, John McEnroe was the first pro to say lookout for this 16 year old kid - he picks up a serve very early on its hop and can hit winners. It later turned out Agassi's eyes tested at freakish levels of seeing ability. Genetics.
@@StephenDoty84
He was absolutely incredible at it. It almost doesn’t make sense, given how pigeon-toed and awkward he is.
@@YogsenForfoth When you have great eyes and a father training you with a tennis ball machine in the back yard everyday since you were 4 years old, cheering you on, it helps a lot, though.
German humor is no laughing matter.
Ain’t that for sure 😂
Hope them Russians don't see this.
What nobody knew was Becker HATED serving to Agassi.
Agassi had beckers tell, it was beckers tongue. His tongue would stick out the side of his mouth that the ball was going, this is true! Agassi used to deliberately miss returns for fear of Becker working it out
So this messing on serve really pissed Becker off!
I heard about that. I would NOT want to play Poker against Agassi! hahaha
Thats funny, I've noticed the subconsious toungue pointing the way on other players in different sports too. Penalty kicks and dribbling in football for example.
Similar to Petr Cech knowing which side a penalty was shot. Frightening for the strikers. There's a story told by Mario Gomez, who played the 2012 Champions League final for Bayern against Chelsea. He took a penalty in the shoot-out. First thought was one side, then he changed his mind at the last moment, shot to the other side. Cech almost saved it.
After the game, these two were selected for doping control, so they sat together waiting. Cech said, "What was that about the penalty? Initially you wanted to shoot to the other side." He could read body language like a book.
Both players confirmed the story. Becker used to say to his wife after the matches: "It is as if he was reading my mind!"
When Agassi finally told him - after their careers, of course, in Munich, at the Oktoberfest - Becker almost fell off the bench.
I don't believe Agassi's story at all.
This match was a landslide victory for Becker
The highlight of Agassi is about this video
Agassi played 11 games with boris and lost just once. Agassi owns Boris.
@@lightsamael7242na he lost to Boris plenty of times including in Wimbledon 95
@@hw343434Foram dez vitórias e quatro derotas contra o alemão.
And Agassi beat Becker many times!!
@@lightsamael7242 They are 10-4 for Agassi. Did you not even bother checking google??
Everything seemed ok - Becker applauded when Agassi crushed the serve.
Remembring these legends Becker, Agassi, Lendl, Edberg, Mcnrow,Sampras
Andre had great hair for a minute.
Wig
@@heitorsiller Maybe. He started wearing a wig either in 89 or 90.
Wig
@@loganpadayachee6048yup, extensions. Read his book.
Reading the other comments, even if it is a wig, either way that is one epic mullet.
Agassi's returns 🤯
Andre was one of a kind !!!! I loved to watch him against Sampras !!!! 💪💪💪💪
I'll offer some video of them later.
1:03 I knew becker was going down the line (clue, look at his tongue!). Agassi in his book Open shared that once he figured out that Boris projects the direction of his serve through his tongue, he never lost to him lol.
I was unaware of this assessment of Agassi. Very good!!!😂
Becker actually won the first three encounters and then 1 out of the next 11.
He hadn't figured it out at this point?
@@michaelgarza8271 didn’t. According to Agassi after he told him when he was retired, Boris just couldn’t believe it that Agassi could have notice that but he did and Boris subconsciously did do that serve with his tongue and apparently Agassi the only one in the tennis world that knew about it.
That was superb by Agassi I have to say
Who knew Becker would be a felon and Agassi would have no more hair😅
Agassi wore a wig from very early on in his career.
There is a story of him preparing for his French Open final, I think 1990. Him and his brother tried to fix the wig and Agassi's biggest fear was losing it in front of that huge crowd. Eventually his brother ended up saying: "Don't worry, it'll hold. ... If you don't move too much."
... and be happily married to Steffi graf!!
😜 Funny post and I’ll tell you one thing I’m exactly Boris Becker’s age and I saw him the other day boy he does not look good and trying to hide money doing six months in the can and Andre great guy but man does he not look like he did hear and 89 father time, brother father time
Good old Times .Andre With his blond wig after we all know it 30 years later lol
wonderful return.
Agassi was still a teenager in this.
When he was about 9 years old, and tiny, his father bet an athletic guy $500, that his 9 year old kid could beat him, the guy laughed and took the bet, only to lose.
If you want a real revelation, find the video where Agassi tells how he learned to read Becker's serve. Then go and find videos of Becker and watch for his "tell" - it actually works.
Yeah, that's a hilarious story. "Tennis hack" at its best.
Why wasn´t the point awarded to Becker? I don´t get it.
Andre "Mach-10'd" that return at the end lol
That's because he knew where the serve was going to be. He knew where Becker was going to serve, based on which way he pointed his tongue
How smart andrey looked when he had hairs
He always had hairs but no hair😅
Boris too uptight. Should've taken his "finances" as serious!😯
And his accountant.
exactly. Becoming a milionaire, now he is a zeronaire
Oh, lighten up Boom Boom. Andre standing back that far was a great compliment given your first serve, especially indoors, was HUGE!
Plus Becker won the point anyway.
If there was one thing Agassi did very well, it was to make competition and the game more lively. Becker too rigid.
Was that when Agassi was wearing a Wig its very fluffy
Well, it seems so, although when I saw it I would never have said it was a wig.
What a mullet on Andre
Where was this held? I'm assuming it was in the US as Nabisco was the sponsor. But the commentary is in Spanish, so Spain? Thanks!
It was played in New York. It was in 1989, the last before going to Frankfurt, Germany. The language of the broadcast is Catalan, the co-official language of Catalonia, a region of Spain. All programming is usually translated here.
George Michael vs. Rick Astley😂
That’s one saggy looking net.
Agassi was brave when he told the world he was wearing a wig all along! Brave Brave Brave!!!
I dont think he was having the hair weave thing at this point...that was later
It was still his hair around this time. Late 80s is when his hair loss started to progress but he still didnt hide it at this point. You can see even in this video his hairline is forming an M shape. He wore the hair long to hide it something he admitted. I think 1990 is where he started the wig thing aka "the headband era". Then 92, 93, 94 he started wearing a hat. Should have kept it clean cut or shaved it earlier it did nothing but hinder his performance. Basically the mullet matches without a headband is still his hair. Headbeand onwards its a wig.
@@srxt6758 U dont know Bro .He Use wigs after He is 18years old lol
Pity. Germans usually have the best sense of humour …
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You joke ? So proud of themselves , worst sense of humour
As a German, I know the thinnest book in the world: 1000 years of German humour.
😂😂😂
He doesn't like jokes since he is one himself!
Ur a bigger joke punk punk off haaa haaa
How many grand slams did you win?
whats wrong with you?
Wow!! Geez…have some fun that was awesome
What George Michael is doing on the court?
Is the joke in this video? Sorry i dont get it
Becker asked the umphire why he was not given the point. That's either lack of humor or lack of respect
Agassi went all the way back to the wall when positioning himself to return Becker's serve at the beginning. Becker didn't think it was funny.
@@eminemm6222it was a legitimate question. He should have been awarded the point.
Why is my feed not in English
Who won the match? Becker or Agassi?
Becker
aaaah, ze famous German sense of humor!! :D
Ça s’était vraiment l’humour bas de gamme d’Agassi, pourtant j’étais fan
Ce n’était pas le meilleur Agassi. Lorsqu’il a quitté son personnage, il s’est avéré être l’un des meilleurs de l’histoire.
Agasiiiiii ❤️❤️❤️👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Somehow I never knew Agassi once had such a hairstyle!
That's why these videos exist. We all have a pass.
His mullet was legendary back in the day. He was also the first player to wear not so short shorts.
it's a wig
That "hair" was a wig that he wore for the first two thirds of his career...nobody knew. They just thought he had a crazy spikey mullet. It's funny watching all his earlier matches now, knowing that he was essentially bald by his early 20s and fooled everyone with those outrageous wigs.
@@BuccWylde Fascinating. I wonder where that wig is now. At the age of nearly 66 I could make use of it (once it's had a trim).
Sorry to say but Becker’s service motion looks like he’s pinching something where the sun don’t shine 😂
Андре Агасси з волоссям ,тепер я бачив все 😁.
¿Recuerda alguien al que golpeaba la pelota con los dos brazos y siempre llevaba un tipo de sombrero? Gracias
BCN
Era profesional y norteamericano (.)
santoro?
Quan érem 6 milions!
They were just having fun with each other
Agassi sure does
There was no love lost between those two.
Today they're besties.
@@omegamale7880 Ya..like Agassi and Sampras are best boosum budies.
He doesn't like Beker at all
@@seatime674 And with every good reason.
@@omegamale7880really?
Agassi was the Mel Gibson of tennis.
Change my mind.
He def had Gibsons hair 😀
Andrew Agassi? No, that's Colin Farrell.
Boris was mad cause André was rockin' such an awesome mullet! 'Germans love mullets, that's why Steffi Graff married Agsassi. Boris was thinking, 'how dare you rock my countries official hairstyle!" 😅
Shorty shorts and big mullet
Fake mullet in Agassi's case! Total wig
How was life in Prison Boris? 😂😂😂
Your dad picked up soap for him
Haha!!
Not much people know but Agassi wore a wig from an early age, if you take a good look he looks like Rob Cross the darts player.
The golden age of tennis 🎾
All eras have their magic, but without a doubt, that was epic
The big Agassi Wig!
Remember when Boris called a ball out during has last Wimbledon ??
What do you mean?
Uau, l'antic canal 33!
The biggest joke here is Agassi's wig!! 🦱🤭
Becker was a jerk and remained one. Agassi does not mention him fondly in his book. Ironically...although not Boris...a guy named B. Becker would defeat Agassi in the last US Open he took part in before retiring. I loved Agassi growing up and for years it looked like he might never win any majors...so glad he eventually achieved all those grand slam victories. He's one of very few players to achieve a GOLDEN SLAM...all 4 majors plus the olympic gold medal.
True, it was difficult for him but in the end he became one of the greats of this sport. For me his greatest achievement was being the first player, since the eighties, to win all four
Grand Slam, although in different years.
Agassi ha sido uno de los más grandes restadores de la historia.De la época moderna sólo Djokovic lo superó.
Cierto. Basó su juego en la agresividad al resto y su potente juego de fondo de pista.
Andre is the Best ❤
AA used same cheap tactics whenever insecure against an opponent. Lame comments meant to distract.
It may be, but it also had its comic side and was outside the strict rules of tennis at that time. I think in this case it was a joke that Becker didn't take it well even though he knew he was.
@javiermolacobos
TrickSter yet a Star
The deusches never smiles
Is this a exhibition match?
No!!! It is a group match of the Master of the year 1989.
In his early days as a professional, Agassi was a spectacle not of play but of eccentricity and behavior, even though he had enormous talent. When he focused his life on tennis he began to win titles until he became a legend.
😆 🤣 Looks so but wasn't. Haha
Oh come on, it was a funny moment in a tennis match, no need to overanalyze and pick apart with comments. And notice after Agassi hit one of his patented overcharged forehand returns, (off a second serve), Becker made the applause motion on his side, and Agassi held up his hand in the tennis "sorry about that" motion. All is well. Enjoy life.
Y la única grabación es en catalán? Para que no la entienda nadie? Venga ya...
Por lo visto tu si que la entiendes ya que has reconocido el idioma. En aquella época la televisión catalana era la que más apostaba por la retransmisión de partidos de tenis.
@@javiermolacobos He veraneado allí media vida. Lamentablemente en 2015 tuve que cambiar de destino para no tener que partirme la cara con nadie. No he vuelto. Ahora paso el verano en Cádiz, donde somos todos españoles. Y está mejor preparado para el turismo, pero Tarragona será siempre mi niñez.
@@Julio-cu1fq En Cataluña hay muchos que nos sentimos españoles, y en esos tiempos eran muy pocos los que pregonaban el catalanismo. Se da más voz y credibilidad a la minoría que a la mayoría silenciosa.
@@javiermolacobos Lo sé, y adoro tu tierra, tu mar, el interior, la gastronomía... hasta el idioma chapurreaba. Fui a reuniones de la CUP con David Fernández y Ana Gabriel para intentar entender sus argumentos. Lo siento, no me gusta tomar algo debajo de una estelada ni puedo pasar las vacaciones quemado por el tema. Si sois mayoría, actuad como tal. En Cádiz somos mayoría total.
I didn’t realize how good at tennis George Michael was.
Eighties look
Becker should have been penalised for those shorts. Those things were illegal
Who is Becker now?😂
The person separated from the tennis player
enjoy your delicious moments
This is the first time I have seen ,andre agassi had this much hair and it looks too good
It's a wig
Rug.
Boom Boom!
Such a winner. The best player I have ever seen, Agassi
I guess you haven't seen that many players.
@@HyperHorse who knows
Very simple : Agassi a little - very talented - boy ... Boris - a gentleman and one of the greatest " man " of our Sport .
Riki ( Tennis pro trainer )
Agassi’s bad mullet wig.
At that time it was true
Boris probably had money on the game
If hawk eye was there back then, Boom Boom Becker would have won almost every major.
Is his hair real?
At that time, yes
Man that return is not a joke!
Agassi had spotted that Becker had a tell on his serve, so his return had an advantage.
Yeah Becker always had hard time dealing with that mysterious skills of Agassi who (if memory serves me ) revealed in his book how he could read Boris mind who having no clue whatsoever be4 firing his serve kept on put his tongue out thus Andre (being much smarter than anybody thought back then ) noticed that weakness n often punished him just like in d video did.
As good as Boris Becker was (and he *was* good), it was extremely easy to destroy his concentration. My favorite was the 1987 US Open match between Boris Becker and Brad Gilbert... shows you that being good is not enough. You need to stay with the match mentally--no matter what--if you want to be at the very top.
Absolute truth!!
He still won six Grand Slams and was the youngest ever male winner at Wimbledon. Not exactly shabby. Agassi had a ton of issues himself before his ‘remarkable’ late career transformation. I’m not implying anything here btw.
@@FlabbyTitmuss Both are legends. Each had his particular career, but both are worthy of being considered among the greatest in the history of tennis. At least that's what I think. Thanks for the comment.
I don't know about that. dude won a lot of matches down match point and/or two sets to love down. Also, I'm sure there were plenty more matches where John lost his concentration and didn't win.
@@FlabbyTitmuss agassi was a total flake… I probably know more about him than any fan… used to debunk the dozens and dozens of lies in his autobiography! In this case it’s the masters and Agassi didn’t even come to play seriously, gets swept aside pretty shamefully.
In any case, Becker was highly variable… Match to match and even year to year, but overall he was above average. Foolish To say otherwise. 87,88,91,93 were marginal years where he’s admitted being distracted by off court issues. Certainly at his best he was mentally one of the strongest to ever play. Peers like stich, Tarango, McEnroe, noah, and many others were more temperamental. Brad Gilbert binging you down is no shame - it was Brad’s primary goal - as he proudly admits. Almost every top player felt the frustration at one time or another against him.
The only players who really dealt with Brad extmrlet well were players like Mac, Wdberg, and Lendl - partly bc they had the games to destroy Brad. Their records against him are brutal.
There's just no substitute for square inches
B.Bヘラクレス
what is rr master ?
It's Round Robin. This name was given to the matches played in each of the two groups of four players that decided the semifinalists.
Agassi with his toupee...
No one knew it then
Agassi 1.0
Becker is probably laughing even less now when he drops the soap in the shower since he's in jail LOL
No one could suspect that it would end like this
Agassi kinda looks like Mel Gibson here
And not only in the look. He was the "enfant terrible" of tennis
peaked at 17. becker has been in a dumpster ever since.
becker should lighten up
Yes. Too tense and with little sense of humor.
Agassi had worn a wig for most of his career.
TRUE. Although on the date of the videos no one could imagine it.
Això era tv3?
El canal 33
Canal 33 al voltant de l' any 1989 crec....
That’s exactly what he was A JOKE (compared to djokovic)
The time when hair dressers were competing in their own professional league too
A time when tennis was open to more people and the look of the tennis players had to be attractive.
Seriously, what a jerk!!
Boris Becket at Agassi’s same age was way better
For me at any age Becker was better than Agassi.
Its a fake , Agassi is bold 😅😅