Who was Andre Agassi's greatest rival?

By YPB Team

Across nineteen years he faced serve-and-volley artists, fellow prodigies and the man who replaced him. Which one mattered most?

  1. Pete Sampras — ranked #11
    Pete Sampras
    They met 34 times, including five major finals.
    1000pts
  2. Boris Becker — ranked #22
    Boris Becker
    Agassi lost their first three meetings, then won ten of the next eleven.
    678pts
  3. Ivan Lendl — ranked #33
    Ivan Lendl
    The established No. 1 who beat him in his first two major semi-finals.
    635pts
  4. Marat Safin — ranked #44
    Marat Safin
    The younger power baseliner who ended his 2002 US Open.
    524pts
  5. Patrick Rafter — ranked #55
    Patrick Rafter
    Beat him in Melbourne and lost to him in New York.
    469pts
  6. Stefan Edberg — ranked #66
    Stefan Edberg
    The serve-and-volley contrast to Agassi's baseline game.
    407pts
  7. Goran Ivanisevic — ranked #77
    Goran Ivanisevic
    A serve Agassi's return game was built to neutralise.
    335pts
  8. Rafael Nadal — ranked #88
    Rafael Nadal
    They met once, at Wimbledon, at opposite ends of their careers.
    253pts
  9. Yevgeny Kafelnikov — ranked #99
    Yevgeny Kafelnikov
    Beat him in the 1999 Australian Open semi-final run-up years and lost the 1999 French final.
    253pts
  10. Jim Courier — ranked #1010
    Jim Courier
    A childhood academy rival who beat him in a French Open final.
    253pts
  11. Michael Chang — ranked #1111
    Michael Chang
    A fellow American prodigy who beat him at the French Open in 1995.
    156pts
  12. Roger Federer — ranked #1212
    Roger Federer
    The next generation's best, who beat him in the 2005 US Open final.
    43pts

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