There's more shock in Andre Agassi's autobiography than the confession he used crystal meth. Agassi says he wore a wig because he was distressed that he was losing his hair. He feared it would come off when he was wearing it at the French Open final:
"'Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identityon the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole,' he writes. Butafter the wig fell apart in the shower the night before the Parisfinal, his brother helped him clamp it together using about 20 clips. Agassiwrites: 'Of course I could have played without my hairpiece, but whatwould all the journalists have written if they knew that all the time Iwas really wearing a wig? During the warming-up training before play I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off. Witheach leap, I imagine it falling into the sand. I imagine millions ofspectators move closer to their TV sets, their eyes widening and, indozens of dialects and languages, ask how Andre Agassi's hair hasfallen from his head.'"
Scenes from that final, at which Andres Gomez defeated Agassi, AFTER THE JUMP…
