Andre Agassi: I Wore a Wig in 1990 French Open Final
“Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole,’ he writes. But after the wig fell apart in the shower the night before the Paris final, his brother helped him clamp it together using about 20 clips. Agassi writes: ‘Of course I could have played without my hairpiece, but what would all the journalists have written if they knew that all the time I was really wearing a wig? During the warming-up training before play I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off. With each leap, I imagine it falling into the sand. I imagine millions of spectators move closer to their TV sets, their eyes widening and, in dozens of dialects and languages, ask how Andre Agassi’s hair has fallen from his head.”
