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This is an updated biography of Andre Agassi, who said "Image is everything".;Despite the George Michael designer stubble, the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle, the earrings, the nail varnish and the shocking pink thigh-hugging cycle shorts, the kid from Las Vegas had the image of being a loser.;That was until the 'Great White Hype', as his critics were fond of calling him, became Wimbledon Champion in the summer of 1992.;As a baby he used a tiny table-tennis bat to swat a balloon tied to his high chair, at four he was knocking up with Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg in front of a huge audience in Caesars Palace, and at seven he was winning under-10 tournaments while his father, a former Olympic boxer, battled officialdom and parents of rival players.;Andre Agassi is accustomed to rocking the established order of things. A teenage rebel, he dropped out of school at 13, drank and smoked marijuana. On court he cursed and smashed rackets, while railing against the army-camp discipline of Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy.;After turning professional on his 16th birthday, his rise was meteoric and, by the age of 18, he was ranked third in the world and had `found God'. His fellow players accused h
