{"id":217297,"date":"2025-10-16T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217297\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:22:15","slug":"he-has-what-it-takes-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217297\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Has What it Takes\u201d \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern California native Learner Tien<\/a> is turning heads, and eight-time major champion Andre Agassi is among his newest admirers. After reaching the Beijing final, southpaw Tien has rocketed to No. 38 in the world\u2014up from No. 121 at the Australian Open this January.<\/p>\n

Agassi, the current Team World Captain at Laver Cup, has an eye for current ATP talent, and he likes what he sees in Tien.<\/p>\n

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Speaking from Hong Kong, Agassi told the AFP<\/a> that Tien \u201chas learned the game phenomenally well. He is incredibly gifted, not just with his game, but with his mind.\u201d <\/p>\n

The eight-time major champion He acknowledged the teenager\u2019s physical limitations\u2014\u201cas far as size and strength goes\u201d\u2014 but added, \u201cWhen I really look at him \u2026 he does everything.\u201d <\/p>\n

Agassi also voiced confidence in Tien\u2019s mental resolve: \u201cMentally he absolutely has what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Daniil Medvedev, who edged past Tien in Shanghai, was also full of praise for the Irvine, California native recently. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion he is an unbelievable player, because he doesn\u2019t have a great serve and serve is so important in tennis,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cWithout the serve, he is 19 years old and 30-something in the world and only going up. In my opinion he is such a good tennis player.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe feels the game so well. There are so many guys right now that just hit strong with every ball they have, and they have an amazing serve which allows them to stay in the tennis match. He doesn\u2019t have it, and he manages to play so good without it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern California native Learner Tien is turning heads, and eight-time major champion Andre Agassi is among his newest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-217297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}