Agassi<\/a>\u2018s appearance at the annual event marks yet more involvement from him in tennis this season, having spent the majority of his post-playing days away from the sport. <\/p>\n In 2025, the 55-year-old has enjoyed spells in commentary, punditry, and even a brief three-day coaching trial with Holger Rune<\/a>. <\/p>\n Since returning to the tennis world, the eight-time Grand Slam champion said he has noticed plenty of changes in the game. <\/p>\n When asked in a press conference ahead of the Laver Cup<\/a> about tennis\u2019s need for evolution and innovation, Agassi responded: \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a big picture question, I\u2019ll just give you it from my lens.<\/p>\n \u201cI went through a good 15 years of raising my kids and finishing up my foundation in a way that they can live in perpetuity, and building a few businesses.<\/p>\n \u201cNow my kids are kind of empty nesters, and I have the bandwidth to come back to tennis on a certain level and really appreciate the difference between what it was and what it is now.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I played through a few generations myself, and I was always shocked at the changes that happened, both from players to environments and the growth of it.<\/p>\n \u201cI go back to places and I don\u2019t even recognise them. I mean, I can\u2019t get from one place to another because they\u2019ve changed that much.<\/p>\n \u201cSo people can talk about eyeballs, they can talk about the growth of the game or the lack of growth.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I see it, it\u2019s only expanding, it\u2019s only growing. I mean, it doesn\u2019t do that unless it\u2019s generating, and it doesn\u2019t generate unless there are more people who want a part of it.<\/p>\n \u201cSo the premise of your question is sort of based on the assumption that it\u2019s maybe not growing like it should, and from my perspective, I haven\u2019t experienced that. I mean, everywhere I go, I just go, \u2018holy crap.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cBut you\u2019re right, these events are spectacular, because we\u2019re an individual sport, and there\u2019s always room for innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking on his role as captain for Team World at the Laver Cup, Agassi said: \u201cI think the first job is not to get in their way.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would be hard to convince me that I play enough of a role that I\u2019m going to do any winning out there, you know, but I think I could screw it up. That\u2019s how I look at it.<\/p>\n \u201cI could help them. I could distract them, or I could make it about what it\u2019s not. It\u2019s not about that. You earn respect. You don\u2019t demand it. So much respect about these guys.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, their confidence\u2026 I mean, there\u2019s not a player on this team that doesn\u2019t think they can do the job if the job fell on their shoulders. I respect the hell out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Taylor Fritz<\/a>, Joao Fonseca<\/a>, and Alex de Minaur are among the stars playing for Team World at the Laver Cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Agassi is set to lead Team World at the Laver Cup this week, becoming the side\u2019s second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10371,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-148520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andre-agassi","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Andre](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235972789-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images for Laver CupAndre Agassi reflects on how tennis has changed in recent years<\/p>\n![\"Taylor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236159975-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n![\"Team](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235786680-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images for Laver CupAndre Agassi says he will not \u2018get in the way\u2019 of his Laver Cup team<\/p>\n