By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, August 8, 2025
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Andre Agassi has been a dream-maker for college kids and gamers.
This month, Corridor of Famer Agassi can be honored for his efforts.
The USTA Basis introduced former World No. 1 Agassi can be honored with the Serving Up Goals Award at its annual Opening Evening Gala on Sunday, August twenty fourth, on the US Open.
The Serving Up Goals Award is offered “to a person who embodies the values of devoted service to advance the USTA Basis’s work to arrange younger folks for the life challenges they are going to face, each on and off the courtroom, via the highly effective mixture of tennis, schooling, and life abilities improvement,” the Basis mentioned in an announcement.
Agassi is among the many few skilled tennis gamers to ascertain a basis throughout their taking part in careers, and he approaches his philanthropy with the identical unflagging drive and focus as he demonstrated on the courtroom. In 2001, Agassi based the Andre Agassi Basis for Training to enhance public faculties and spend money on communities. His efforts have raised over $180 million so far. He based and operated the Andre Agassi Faculty Preparatory Academy (Agassi Prep), a free public constitution college in his hometown of Las Vegas, which graduated 9 senior lessons underneath Agassi’s management, and nonetheless stays open right this moment. He additionally co-founded the Turner-Agassi Constitution College Services Fund, which helps construct faculties in low-income areas throughout the nation. Agassi has devoted a lot of his post-tennis life to schooling reform, notably for younger folks from under-resourced communities.
Agassi additionally personally funded a Boys & Ladies Membership in Las Vegas.
One among solely 5 males to attain a profession Grand Slam within the Open Period, Agassi reworked the game of tennis within the Nineteen Nineties, turning into a world legend along with his charismatic persona and daring taking part in type. Alongside his eight main singles titles, he gained an Olympic singles gold medal in Atlanta and 60 tour-level titles throughout his 21-year skilled profession, earlier than retiring on the 2006 US Open.
“Investing in schooling is likely one of the strongest methods you possibly can rework lives and communities. Whereas my profession could have been in tennis, I consider my true calling is to assist create high quality tutorial alternatives for younger those that I frankly didn’t have,” mentioned Agassi. “It’s a privilege to have the ability to make a distinction and assist give children the possibility to decide on their very own path. This honor serves as a reminder that once you put within the laborious work and maintain your self accountable for reaching actual outcomes, you possibly can change lives. That’s the one end result that actually issues.”
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