PETE SAMPRAS AND ANDRE AGASSI TENSION
March 15, 2010 by Dallas Commagreens
INDIAN WELLS, CA – Two former tennis greats filled a charity event with some awkward tension!
Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are two of the greatest ever to have played the sport of tennis. Throughout their career, the two shared an intense rivalry that was spotlighted in numerous matches. On Friday night, the two joined Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for a charity event that took a turn for the worse.
Sampras and Agassi exchanged some verbal volleys during the match that turned the fun-filed atmosphere into an awkward and tense one. The event was to raise money for earthquake relief in Haiti and all four players were wearing headsets so the crowd could heart them talking – which wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
“You alway have to get serious, huh Pete?” Agassi said.
Sampras quickly responded by mimicking Agassi’s infamous pigeon-toed walk which set Agassi off and he went in for the kill.
Agassi countered by pulling out his empty pockets which was a reference to an assertion in his book Open that Sampras was a notoriously bad tipper, once tipping a valet $1.
The mood changed there and one could tell that Sampras was slightly disturbed. “Andre, you got personal,” he exclaimed. To which Agassi replied, “No, no. Everybody knows already. That aint personal.”
