Andre Agassi stunned fans when he looked at his wife with a face full of love and adoration as he shows it’s possible to keep the magic alive after a quarter of a century and set the bar high.
The tennis icon has been married to Steffi Graf since 2001 but admitted he had a crush on her since the early 1990s and that crush doesn’t seem to have waned as the years have passed.
“She was the hardest to win,” Agassi said of Steffi, when asked if she is his greatest victory, proving how smitten the eight-time Grand Slam-winning star still is with his beau.
Recently, how he chose to look at her during a TV interview, gazing with wonder, only showed how they’ve kept their love alive after all of these years as he backs up his words in 2007 when he admitted what makes her so special to him.
“She is a lady of a few words, and her actions speak volumes,” Agassi told People in 2007. “And her values are reflected every day in how she lives.
“I try to learn from her. I pour myself into something, and I get crazy with it, and then I get burned out.
“And I sort of have to regroup. She stays the course in a way that allows me to jump around in a big safety net.”
Teamwork makes the dreamwork for Steffi and Andre
Two fierce competitors, with Graf being considered the one of the greatest tennis players of all time, the pair have made sure to keep in touch with their competitive streaks.
However, now aged 55 and 54 their bodies have slowed down and they cannot keep up with the strict athletic demands of the sport like they once did, and adjusted to pickleball where they make quite the team.
“Andre still plays tennis, but I don’t much anymore,” Steffi admitted to People. “We really liked learning a new sport during the pandemic and meeting new friends through pickleball.
“We don’t play each other. We prefer to be on the same side of the court.”
