Andre Agassi didn’t just transform the sport of tennis with his style of play and on-court achievements; the International Tennis Hall of Famer also changed the sport’s fashion game as we know it.
And fans heared it from the man himself last week as the former world No. 1 revisited some of his most iconic serves— not aces, but ‘fits—in a video posted to his Instagram account, revealing that he still thinks fondly of his boldest sartorial stylings even today.
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Agassi’s countdown begins with his self-described “pirate look” from the 1995 Australian Open, where he donned baggy patterned shorts, a loose white and burgundy-striped shirt, a matching banada, hoop earring, and goatee for complete privateer vibes. The 54-year-old confessed that the look wouldn’t have been out of place in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise which debuted nearly a decade later (and the clip even offered a side-by-side of Agassi and Johnny Depp’s character Jack Sparrow, the lead in the film), but he performed his own swashbuckling heist in the final that year in Melbourne.
In his Australian Open debut, a memorable occasion that the tournament itself dubbed “a blockbuster” that ushered in an era of change, Agassi won his third career Grand Slam singles title by beating top seed and longtime rival Pete Sampras from a set down, and also saved two set points in the third set of the 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(6), 6-4 title match.
