# Who was Andre Agassi's greatest rival?

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

*By YPB Team · Published August 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-was-andre-agassis-greatest-rival*

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

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