{"id":234746,"date":"2025-10-23T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234746\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:51:09","slug":"24-years-strong-andre-agassis-heartfelt-anniversary-tribute-to-his-unicorn-steffi-graf-melts-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234746\/","title":{"rendered":"24 years strong: Andre Agassi\u2019s heartfelt anniversary tribute to his \u2018unicorn\u2019 Steffi Graf melts the Internet. |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"24 Tennis legend Andre Agassi has shared a heartfelt tribute to his wife Steffi Graf in honour of their 24th wedding anniversary. The 55-year-old wrote on Instagram: \u201c24 years with this wonderful woman. Happy Anniversary, Steffi, you are my unicorn!\u201dThe post, shared on 22 October, included two photographs, one of the couple smiling together, and another from Wimbledon<\/a> 1992, where they famously both lifted their singles trophies.In the iconic image, Graf wore an elegant off-the-shoulder ivory gown, while Agassi looked dapper in a black tuxedo, a moment that symbolised not just two champions at their peak, but the beginning of a long, intertwined story.<\/p>\n

Match made in Wimbledon<\/p>\n

\"AndreTheir story, however, didn\u2019t begin there. The two first crossed paths in the early 1990s, when both were dominating the tennis world. After their dual Wimbledon victories in 1992, Agassi had been hoping to share his first dance with Graf at the post-tournament Wimbledon Ball. In his memoir Open, Agassi recalled, \u201cI\u2019ve had a crush on Steffi since I first saw her doing an interview on French TV.\u201d That dance, however, never happened, the event was cancelled, and Agassi\u2019s long-held admiration remained at a distance.Years later, fate intervened. In 1999, their coaches arranged a practice session that would change everything. Speaking to Vijay Amritraj, Graf admitted, \u201cOur coaches kind of set up this whole practice. I was like, \u2018Why does he want to practise with me? He\u2019s married. I\u2019ve got a boyfriend. It was all a little confusing to me.\u2019\u201d At the time, Graf had no idea that Agassi was in the midst of divorcing actress Brooke Shields, something she learnt a few weeks later.That same year, Agassi sent Graf a bouquet of roses and a letter after their first practice in Key Biscayne. Graf told Amritraj, \u201cWe had a brief conversation after that where I kind of said that I’ve got a boyfriend and, you know, all I know is that he’s married. When I heard about his divorce a few weeks later, I understood things a little clearer.\u201dAgassi later told The Cut that when it came to Graf, \u201csometimes the universe whispers, sometimes it screams.\u201d He shared that during his divorce, Shields once put a picture of Graf\u2019s legs on their fridge inside a heart-shaped magnet because those were \u201cthe legs she was striving for.\u201d Agassi said, \u201cThat\u2019s the universe screaming\u2026 it\u2019s a bullhorn.\u201d\"AndreTheir connection soon deepened. By October 2001, just days before Graf was due to give birth to their first child, the couple quietly married in their Las Vegas home. In Open, Agassi wrote that they wed \u201cbarefoot and wearing jeans\u201d in their courtyard, using twists of old raffia Graf found in a drawer as wedding bands. Only their mothers and a Nevada judge were present.<\/p>\n

The family of four<\/p>\n

Graf gave birth to their son Jaden Gil Agassi later that month, followed by their daughter Jaz Elle Agassi in October 2003. In his memoir, Agassi revealed that both he and Graf privately vowed that neither of their children would play tennis. Jaden instead chose baseball, signing with the University of Southern California in 2019, a moment his proud parents witnessed together.Speaking to Forbes India, Agassi described Graf as \u201cthe hardest to win,\u201d adding that the highest point of his life was when she accepted his proposal. In his interview with Parade, he said, \u201cWhat has transcended everything has been the common ground we share and our basic approach toward life. It\u2019s better to be lucky than good sometimes. I don\u2019t feel like I have any answer to how to have successful relationships, but I do feel overwhelmed with the joy that I feel every day.\u201dAgassi also told The Cut that he had long \u201crespected Graf from a distance and marvelled at her.\u201d When reflecting on their relationship in PEOPLE magazine in March 2024, the tennis champion opened up about parenthood: \u201cYou go through a whole phase of them going, \u2018Well, this makes no sense that the people are coming up as if there\u2019s a big deal.\u2019 And then they start to put together why it\u2019s a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Andre Agassi has shared a heartfelt tribute to his wife Steffi Graf in honour of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[25088,111171,111172,111170,49,48,82,88815,593,85850,614],"class_list":["post-234746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andre-agassi","tag-andre-agassi-and-steffi-graf-kids","tag-andre-agassi-and-steffi-graf-love-story","tag-andre-agassi-and-steffi-graf-realtionship","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-steffi-graf","tag-tennis","tag-wedding-anniversary","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}