El Enlace de Ensueño - La Boda de Andre Agassi y Steffi Graf

They have two kids

The couple welcomed the first of their two children, son Jaden Gil Agassi, in October 2001, followed by their daughter, Jaz Elle Agassi, on Oct. 3, 2003. He revealed in his book that after their daughter was born, he and his wife, like they had done with their son, secretly vowed that Jaz wouldn’t play tennis. Although their son didn’t follow in their tennis footsteps, Jaden plays another sport. In 2019, the baseball player signed with the University of Southern California, while his proud mom and dad stood behind him.

According to Agassi, his kids never had a moment where they realized that their parents were famous — instead, they eventually began to understand why people would come up to them and want to talk to him and Graf in public.

While talking to PEOPLE in March 2024, Agassi said, "You go through a whole phase of them going, ‘Well, this makes no sense that the people are coming up as if there’s a big deal.' And then they start to put together why it's a big deal."

He continued, "They start to realize they're looking behind the Wizard of Oz curtain and they realize it's not all that. So there's a healthy balance that kind of is inevitable through the whole process.”

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Jaden, el orgullo de Andre Agassi y Steffi Graf

Los especialistas subrayan que tiene un puesto en el béisbol profesional, aunque las previsiones son diferentes este año debido al coronavirus, que ha dejado el Draft en cinco rondas y no las 40 habituales. Además, el vástago de la famosa y laureada pareja de ex campeones de tenis acaba de operarse un codo.

Independientemente de lo que suceda en la elección, tiene puesto asegurado para debutar, a sus 18 años, en la Universidad del Sur de California (USC), tras destacar en un campus como uno de los nuevos talentos del estado de Nevada, ya que la residencia oficial familiar es Las Vegas.

“Amo el béisbol. Amo a los compañeros de equipo, sobreviviendo y peleando como hermanos. Cada partido es un nuevo conjunto de desafíos y realmente me encanta resolverlos”, señala Jaden en la web oficial de la MLB.

Satisfacción parental y también cierto alivio, ya que el estadounidense y la alemana nunca escondieron que no querían que Jaden ni la más pequeña Jaz Elle (16 años) se asomasen al tenis.

Steffi era profesional a los 14 años, empujada por un padre dominante, Peter, que acabó en la cárcel por sus trapicheos económicos. Andre se declaró con el tiempo víctima de la obsesión del ex boxeador iraní Mike Agassi, llegó a aborrecer el tenis. No querían una experiencia igual para sus niños. “No queríamos entrometernos, queríamos que hicieran su camino”, explicaba Andre. Jaden nunca cogió la raqueta, si jugaba más, de vez en cuando, Jaz. “Si me dijera que quería ser tenista, hubiera respirado hondo y la hubiera apoyado”, matiza.

Agassi had a crush on Graf prior to meeting her

Agassi developed a crush on his future wife before meeting her in person. “I’ve had a crush on Steffi since I first saw her doing an interview on French TV,” he wrote in his memoir Open. “I was thunderstruck, dazzled by her understated grace, her effortless beauty.”

Following the French Open in 1991, Agassi tried to get a message to his crush. “But she didn’t respond,” he shared in his book.

Agassi introduced his wife at her Tennis Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Graf was overcome with emotion after Agassi introduced her at her International Tennis Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2004. "As I attempt to find words worthy to introduce the person that has changed my life, I realize the words have yet to be invented that are large enough, colorful enough, or true enough to express the heart and soul of this woman that I love," Agassi said in his speech.