Updated on
Summary
Former No. 1 tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted that he tested positive for hard drugs during his career and lied to sporting authorities to escape a ban. Agassi, one of the world's greatest tennis players with eight Grand Slam titles, reveals in his autobiography to testing positive for the highly addictive drug crystal methamphetamine. The champion, now 39, also says that he has always secretly hated playing tennis and lived in fear of his bad-tempered and violent father. In the book, serialised in London-based newspaper, Agassi reveals how he took crystal methamphetamine in 1997 when his form was falling and he was having doubts about his impending marriage to US actress Brooke Shields.
