FULL VERSION 1990 - Agassi vs Becker - US Open
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What Agassi could boast about, however, was his domination of the defending champion, Boris Becker, in the semifinals. The Las Vegas native, resplendent in chartreuse and charcoal throughout the tournament, conquered Becker in four sets, sending the West German out of 1990 without the Grand Slam title he needed to challenge Stefan Edberg's No. 1 world ranking.
Boris Becker proves that you can play tennis like a predator and still accept defeat like a sportsman. - กีฬา
I wonder how many times in Grand Slam history have there been 5 men who have been in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam who all won at least 6 Grand Slams or went onto win 6 or more Grand Slams. At the time, McEnroe - 7 Slams at the time, Lendl - 7 Slams at the time, Sampras - 0 Slams at the time, 14 slams eventually, Agassi - 0 slams at the time, 8 Grand Slams eventually, Becker - 4 Grand Slams at the time, 6 Grand Slams eventually.
To watch Agassi play was just great.
For some reason I didn't like Becker so much at the time, but it's amazing how effortless his strokes were. Great flow. Only comparable to Federer, perhaps.
I prefer Boris. Played in a more interesting era and had tougher competition, too.
His ground strokes were weak and non-penetrating compared to Agassi’s though. After relying primarily on an aggressive serve-and-volley playing style his first six years on tour, Becker was trying to prove that he could be just as successful rallying from the baseline. While he could hold his own against most players, he had no chance against Agassi. It was his stubborn refusal to stay back and not follow his serve into the net that led to getting broken 8 times against Agassi during this match, ultimately losing in straight sets. Becker had a chance to seize the #1 ranking, but blew it with this match.
@@toddcrickmore7196 His groundstrokes were certainly not weak. As far as depth goes, maybe you should watch the 1991 Australian open final or his 1989 Davis cup match vs Andre. He defeated Lendl from the baseline with deep heavy baseline shots. Sure, Agassi could generate more pace and his shots were more flat with less topspin but in Andre's own words..."Boris is a underrated baseliner". Beckers mistake against Andre was he didn't mix up his game until 1995.
@@fundhund62 Becker is an amazing baseliner too.
Thanks for uploading these gems!
What a fantastic upload, thank you very much!
Thankyou soo much for this. This is a real treat!
46:00 Andre does a 360° one handed backhand. EPIC
0:54 Gil looking massive.
2:24:02 Signature Andre Agassi point. He hits 5 or 6 balls off the short hop and just paints the corners. I've seen too many Andre matches to list and that point blew me away.
he played simular shoot vs Nadal in 3rd in 2005
I saw this live on TV. Great upload. Was hoping Andre would win it all that year. He showed his future hall of fame form here, at least.
I'll never forget their Davis Cup war the previous year. They were getting after each other Big Time in that one.
I never much liked Becker but i must admit that he had a beautiful game. Great strokes and an aura if self confidence.
Scary guy because he was 6'3" and close to 200 pounds, but did not have the footwork to maintain long matches in tennis. Plus he is now broke, if I understand.
Priceless.......................
I still have the short. I bought it 30 years ago. Memories…. Andre is the best
Me too 😂
Same here
@@spirg
Agassi's game was a perfect foil to Boris' power game.
Especially since stubborn foolish Becker kept trying to play Agassi at Agassi's game from the baseline.
The irony is that Agassi's kryptonite was Becker 2.0 (Sampras)
@@gnordache4405 Sampras was just that little more consistent from the baseline (and more professional after 1992). That made all the difference as Sampras approached his peak. Becker got his career back on track in 1995 but it was too late (except AO 1996)
Great upload and thank you very much. Brings back great memories as well as sadness because of how long ago it seems. I actually have this Agassi outfit and gulp, wore it while playing back then. Pretty ugly.....
brings back great memories these posts, thank you. Hard to believe this was 28 yrs ago. US Open on CBS back then was always one of my fave big sports events of the yr. From posts below I read that here Andrei is all natural hair. At what point did he start with the wigs? Not real important but i find it amusing as back then I never had any idea.
Not quite; even here he wears a wig; and if memory serves me right he has written something about it in his book ("Open"). I have read it though some time ago, but if you search the web for it, you will find some detailed accounts of how huge issue the wig was during the 1990 for him.
This was Becker's first loss against Agassi after being 3-0 against him prior. I think Agassi went on to beat him like 7 straight times until Becker overcame Agassi in the '95 Wimbledon semifinal.
that Wimbledon '95 SF match was the craziest loss in Agassi's career... he absolutely owned Becker and he probably would have beaten Sampras in the final... losing that match ruined Andre for 3 years, and most people thought he would never recover from it.
@@willritter4076 Yeah, I kind of feel like Agassi was playing unbeatable tennis having won the first set and he was up big in the second set over Becker before letting Becker back in it. He was winning so easily in the tournament that once he got a bit of a challenge, he lost his edge. Then he goes onto lose the US Open Final to Sampras and I think he felt like he put all this work in to be #1 and all he had to show for it in '95 was an AO title, even though he won a slew of other tournaments that year. So he regressed for a few years.
Don’t feel sorry for Agassi he was on good stuff
@@dmkappa62 Brooke? I can not agree more, mate ;)
@@dmkappa62 LMAO..
I remember giving Andre about a 0% chance of winning the match after losing the first set. He showed me something that day.
I thought he got robbed in the first set and figured he'd come back. He destroyed Cherkesov in the previous match and ran him into the ground. Cherkesov looked like he'd just run a marathon. Agassi had the goods this tournament, it seemed.
And what to say about Agassi vs Medvedev in RG 1999
Crazy upside down situation...
Agassi never gives the feeling he's in trouble : that's his thing ❤😅💪
17:33 -------- the tongue was left and the serve was right !
8:26 is typical of my service game.
46:00 Why haven't we seen that Agassi spin around shot in the amazing points highlight clips?
I never saw him get that excited ever.
Edberg, Agassi, two of my favorite ever... Chris Ever in the woman game :)
“The way he walks in the locker room, he has the air of a champion”, wonder if its the same way while he is in prison? 🤣
mixes it up bigtime
He did just fine with the Donnay
Nice throwback to a great time in America
Yes! Go Agassi!
Andre was so cool, gorgeous-looking, and tennis savvy mixed with a bad boy persona. No wonder he was the hottest player during his time.
so eerie seeing the Twin Towers standing tall. so sad what's become of the world. much better times back in 1990 in so many ways
The Cold War was a great time.
@@ZiggyStardust49 quelle guerre froide ? En 1990 il n’y avait plus rien. Rendors toi et fais de beaux rêves…..
@@cavabertcavabert6147 I don't speak French, Adieu.
thaanks of support from the tiger
'Super
first off, thank you for posting this memory! i was just beginning my tennis journey and these were my favorite two players. loved watching this matchup.
second, that call at 2:01:30 - 2:01:35 was SO BAD. The all on the baseline was inside the line and the umpire overuled it. I loved Becker & Agassi, so i'm unbiassed here. Watched that call a bunch of times and it made me think the umpire had an agenda here?
Elle est dehors
Credit to Agassi, but Becker tried to match agassi from the baseline , mistake ... becker plays an attacking game , not a counterpuncher, the resut showed it, and again at RG 91
If you read Andre's book you know that he was all business here. Becker talked shit about him the year before in the papers. Brad and Andre prepared for this match up for a whole year. Look at Andre's eyes after match point when he goes for a hug with his brother. EPIC!
@Tristan Rey LMAO
That’s the 1995 US Open. These two didn’t dislike each other so much in 1990.
@@rjamesyork true! My mistake!
going right on serve
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この時日本はバブル真っ只中だったんだなぁ
日本の企業である富士フイルムがUSオープンで飛行船飛ばすって今じゃ考えられない😱
wow !
becker should of served n volleyed more not stay back apllied more pressure
Agassi had beckers.serve figured out cause he stuck.his toungue out when he went down line..😛😛😛
I watched the whole match here and I think this is one of the worst tactical displays I have seen from Becker. Its easy to see why Agassi said "if Boris plays from the baseline I will be the one smiling at the end". I can't believe Becker went to Bob Brett before the match, by the way I am going to spin the first serve in at 75 mph all day and just rally and Bob said, great idea, lets do it! Therefore, either Bob had absolutely no influence on guiding Becker to play a smarter match and use his strengths, or Becker totally ignored any instructions he was given because he is is own boss. Because, it is clear to see from this match that Becker is simply too slow around the court to trouble Agassi, even if he hits a winner here and there, much more errors and Agassi just wore him down, running him side to side, taking the ball early. Agassi even hit almost 30 winners, which is a lot for him. If Becker used his big game ans lost you could say Agassi was too good but we don't know because Becker wilfully did not use his big game in this match.
Its interesting to see why Agassi thought he could implement tactics like that a day later in the final against a similar opponent, although that opponent had sharper reflexes and fast twitch fibres.
Becker was known to often try and break the other guy's strength down, instead of capitalizing on their weakness. And when it worked, it was often devastating.
And by the way, Agassi himself came to experience that habit of Becker's at Wimbledon 1995.
disaster,he served & volleyed against lendl but refused against agassi who was a choker at that time, agassi was fragile if u kept the pressure on him as it proved in the final against sampras,becker allowed agassi to spook him all his career from here..serve & volley is the way to bt agassi even if he passes u now & again
they told him to serve & volley but becker refused..it came out bret & ioan tirac 'beckers manager' told him,problem is it also freed agassi to play without fear against becker in future matches so he suffered
Agassi was one of the few players, who won most times against Becker.
thats cos becker played with fear against him after this game
@@ncf1 ?
Becker gave away his serve. Agassi knew it all those years. Told Becker AFTER he retired. 🤣
40:54 why weren’t u so sure with below-mentioned point, where the ball was clearly in (on the repeat
the showdown
Agassi was wearing a hair system back then.
😂 Lol
5:40 to jump to it
19:30 graphic error. Agassi defeated Becker in straight sets at Indian wells. Corrected at 24:45
8:25 two wild pitches. And framed backhand next point.
bin ich jetzt über misstrauisch, aber ich finde der mann im fila outfit schien auch ins bild reinmontiert zu sein!
Superheini ios
Wasn’t Becker the defending champ?
Correct! ;)
nice ! volley
I had that outfit, and in purple as well...
I too
I still have the shorts
Including the shoes?
@@imonymous yeah but I think I had the purple shoes...it was a mismatch at some point but even then they were expensive
Nike brought it back, shapovalov was wearing it at the US open
Rios, Korda, Agassi
miss twins towers
super saturday
C ick will mir gernicht vorstellen wat in der laube neben dem schwimmbad abgeloffen ist, aber jetzt haben wir sie ja wenigstens alle gemeinsam schön eingeseift!
Ok nicht alle manche blieben auf ihrer Seite, aber die werden auch noch aufwachen hoffe ich
On a totally unrelated topic, it's amazing how at 1:19:50 the commentators were talking about how many majors each male player had before age 22 with Boris being the front runner with 4. Monica Seles had 8 majors by the time she was 20 years old, and Novak who might end up being the greatest men's champion ever, only won 1 by age 22.
Yeah, you'd think Becker would at least double his by-age-22 total, but the 90s explosion of both American tennis (Sampras, Agassi, Courier, Chang) and clay-court specialists really prevented Becker from being as successful as he was in the 80s. He was lucky to get that '91 AO title in there before the Americans really arrived. And Seles, well, we all know what stalled her potential.
all sizzle and not enough steak lol.......refused to lose to beckeri was there in 90 to see mcenroe take out sanchez in 5 sets took so long we missed our flight .
amazing to think that this was a WIG and he could still play without any issues.
@Tristan Rey He admitted it. He started balding at 19 and was super self-conscious about it. He said he believed that wig cost him one Grand-Slam as he was worried it was going to fall off! Anwyay, just like you I was stunned as it had never crossed my mind for even one-second at the time .
serve n volley
Agassi with his 80 mph serve
Shows how good he was winning 8 grand slams in the serve and volley era. If he was playing today I think he’d fair much better than Sampras
guten morgen
The chair umpire and the linesmen were all bias to Agassi
LOL. 5:4 for Agassi and 3 bad calls vs Becker.
Boris tried to out slug a 20 year old Andre agassi from the baseline. Not too many can beat him at his own game.
that was because of wind.Becker was not able to serve well.
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 yeah it was affecting Andre too, not as much as boris though. Boris has such a high toss and deep knee bend. Doesnt take much wind and it throws things off.
priceless
...nice Hair...
46:05 Fun shot from Agassi.
Why haven't we seen that Agassi spin around shot in the amazing points highlight clips?
A hair weave
34:03 it’s in. The referee ain’t the hawk (s eye). How many scores (and careers) were warped and cancelled by referees
Exact. Vous avez raison. Cela aurai pu changer le cours des choses
Wow! Game has evolved so much .
1:27:30
Yanni?????
When your arm feels like jelly, it's hard to jam him. 1:50:27
The triumph of the wig
Lol 🤣
wasn't a wig
the stands are like half empty
It was a weekday ,most people were working
It was a “Super Saturday” 11am start. The crowd always slowly fills in for the 11am match no matter what day of the week.
Andre is wearing a hair piece
RAGassi ..
Lisa Hardy He isn't here.
When did he start with the wigs? @JK 64
@@bull864 he is wearing it even here, check your facts
@@argokan Read his book. He wasn't wearing it here.
er war ein HB Männchen aber die stimme scheint mir auch schriller gemacht als sie tatsächlich rüber kam
Kann mich natürlich auch irren
Lutz Zywicki agreed !
When you search for this Summer of Revenge after reading Agassi's Open.
You mean 1995?
Positive self talk by Becker: 1:20:14 😂👍🏻 (In English: “No, you are such a loser!”
How can you tell agassi mention on his book he was wearing a wig.
Spinner He said in his book he wasn't wearing a wig here, but was a few months earlier when he lost in the French Open.
Becker got some really bad calls. The commentators and linesmen were blind.
Why Becker usually play almost exclusively from baseline against Agassi before 95? While powerful, he not Lendl and his movement from baseline was not the same level as Sampras.
He didn’t usually, but for some reason he did here. When he beat Agassi, he played his normal aggressive serve and volley game.
@@blake7871 no.vs Agassi at WI he started to play more from baseline in second set.
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 Which Wimbledon you talking about?
@@blake7871 95.in 92 he played always SAV
Because Agassi scared him to death with his return of serve.
too much windy
Becker was a big baby on line calls. "Watch it tonight on the TV!" [to see the bad call, he means]
Becker was such the quintessential pale lanky all white wearing German (Euro) tennis player of the era and Agassi was such a drastic opposite. Freak, colors everywhere, personality, atypical game, slamming baseliner and taking high risk shots. He was the bad boy who never should have played tennis. He would have been good at a lot of things and tennis was just one of them. Becker was bred to play euro tennis. When Agassi was at his best it was mystical and magical and better than anyone. He just couldn’t maintain that focus and athleticism and heart every single time. Becker was always playing at a 9/10 level. So it was this guy who was the only guy on tour to play 6/10 to 11/10. Becker was always 8.5/10. Sampras was close but I still think on a given day in which Agassi would play his best was better than any other tennis players best. Roger would be the exception. It would be like Jordan and Lebron. We will never know because it’s impossible to know the outcome.
What a load of drivel ! First of all do you know what 'lanky' is? Well Becker's physique was certainly not lanky. You make some comments which are so completely false its laughable. Do you know mens pro tennis? Agassi at his best was 'better than anyone' WTF... Sampras beat his a$$ in H2H and especially in Grand Slams. What are you on about???? Agassi on his day was' better than any other players best' ??? You obviously didn't watch Sampras in the 90's. You're clueless. PS=14 GS to AA= 8 GS. End of argument. Stick to corporate housing buddy. Tennis aint your game.
@@paulhussey8981 Sampras never won the French though 🤔. I'd take 8 slams (including French) + olympic gold+ masters over 14 slams (excluding French) + #1 status any day.
@@stephenglasse9756 what you would take and who was objectively the superior player are two different things.You obviously don't watch or play tennis or you wouldn't make such asinine statements.
@@paulhussey8981 you don't agree that it's an objective fact that Agassi won 8 slams including French + olympic gold but Sampras failed at the French and olympic gold? Maybe you don't understand the difference between objective and subjective 🤔. I think one can argue that a man who won all four slams on four different surfaces is a superior player to the one who failed 🤔. I think that there are more than a few who think when you take agassi's all-round talents: ball striking, groundstrokes, forehand and backhand, return, dropshot, movement, touch etc it's 'superior' to Sampras'' all-round talents/game minus serve. In other words Sampras service was so powerful it took him beyond Agassi in many games. But hey it's not like Agassi never beat Sampras. He did so frequently. It's not 35-5 to Sampras it's more like 21-14.
@@stephenglasse9756 you are trying to bend the facts to suit your argument. Yes AA won the French and the Olympic gold, two things Sampras never did. But to take those two accomplishments and somehow bend it to your narrative that those two, plus AA's all round game somehow trumps Sampras' one dimensional serve game is ludicrous.When discussing the GOATs Sampras is sometimes referenced along side the three current contenders. AA is NEVER mentioned in the same discussion. Why? Because in his ERA Sampras beat his ass in virtually every meaningful GS match.He also eclipsed him in ATP Final wins , H2H and overall GS wins, and year ending no. 1 ranking time, nearly DOUBLING his tally of GS titles of 8 with his 14. What part don't you understand in this comparison? AA holds only one significant statistic over PS and that being winner of all four slams. Sampras is on Mount Olympus along side Laver, Fed, Djokovic and Nadal. Agassi sits on a level below them, along side Becker, Edberg, Lendl etc
Becker was trying to pick up Brooke Shields, but Agassi showed him who was the real boss.
Now Becker is broke, but Agassi is thriving.
En 1990 Brooke n'était pas en couple avec Agassi
That was at Wimbledon 1995 Semi Finals.
Wow the game was so slow back then...
it was actually much faster, today its all spin, back then it was all speed
The courts were much faster, but because of strings/racquets the players had to create all their power from their own muscles and technique/ these days, the racquets/strings alone create so much power. Also, Becker was not the most powerful baseliner. He was hitting a lot of high looping balls, junk, and slices, so Agassi therefore didn't have much rhythm from Becker to give his own shots power. So it looks like they're not playing as fast as these days. Watch a match from the early nineties between Agassi and, say, Courier. They were the rare guys at the time who both played totally from the baseline on hardcourts, and they CRUSHED the ball.
But the racquets/strings being more forgiving were one of the many reasons that Agassi played his best tennis in the 2000's. The newer technology played to his strengths so well. Watch Agassi-Blake 2005 US Open QF. You will NOT see a harder-hitting, "faster" match than that one. Truly breath-taking how hard and flat they were crushing every shot that day. I still have yet to see a match with hitting as hard as that. These days, all the top players hit with so much topspin that the ball doesn't move through the air quite as fast. There are obviously exceptions, like Del Potro who hits a pretty flat forehand.
Some of it I believe is the sound of the ball is different because of the microphones they are using, so it seems "slower." However the strings they are using does play a big part as well
Wow. So today's guys hit the ball harder with their modern strings.
Impressive.
Anything else?
What about skill? Variety? Agility? Tactical prowess? Being able to hit all the shots?
I don't see much of that in today's game.
G・G sucrates
They were like, they didn't have to inject poison from Dr.Fauchi.
my english is not good, I thinking the same shitmake speak in the backround aggessi dis becker high
That for manipulations strikes
Agassi at 20 looks 30 at least. He looks older than Becker here.
these players make far more unforced errors than fed or nadal. honestly they look like club players compared to fed and nadal
Errors were more common generally back then. I'd like to see Nadal try and compete with either of these two using these rackets
Agassi was a legend. The only man who caught the ball quick on its return,allowing so much more power.
Badis the speed of the US Open hasn't changed since 1978.
Agassi beated federer a couple of times
Michael Walker not true, google “homogenization of tennis courts 2002”