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Jaden Agassi, son of tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, set to pitch for Germany | Sport-others News

Jaden Agassi, son of tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, set to pitch for Germany | Sport-others News

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf‘s son, Jaden, will pitch for Germany’s baseball team in the World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in Tucson, Arizona in March. Choosing baseball over tennis, the sport of his famous parents, Jaden previously played at USC and in the MLB Draft League. He’s representing Germany due to his mother’s German roots. If Germany qualifies, he’ll play in the main tournament in 2026. Despite his parents, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, being tennis legends with a combined 30 Grand Slam titles, Jaden Agassi chose baseball over tennis. “Agassi is a very tennis-oriented last name. The goal is to try to make it known in baseball,” he had told WKBN, a local Ohio television channel. Story continues below this ad “I had a growth spurt in high school and started throwing harder, which is when coaches began to notice me. I felt I had a future in this sport.” Even though his baseball career started strong, Jaden Agassi faced numerous obstacles. A 2019 arm injury, coupled with the pandemic, caused him to miss playing …

What Novak Djokovic can learn from Golden Slam winner Steffi Graf? | Tennis News

If Novak Djokovic says that he can walk on water, the world is most likely to believe him. So late last year when the Serb said that 2024 for him would be about winning the Olympic gold medal at Paris and sweeping the four Slams, the ambitious new year goal sounded reasonable and realistic for most. The ones not convinced by the Serbian living legend were those who had diligently followed the then 19-year-old Steffi Graf’s magical Golden Grand Slam year of 1988. Djokovic might have won a world record 24 Slams but at 36 he isn’t the Steffi of the late 80s. The 1988 bar is too high. The German phenomenon lost a grand total of just two sets in all the four Grand Slams she won. Djokovic, by the way, has already lost two sets in the first two rounds of the season’s opening Slam – the ongoing Australian Open. Steffi’s breakthrough win of 1988 was at Wimbledon, where she stopped Martina’s six-year long unbeaten run. Credited with bringing power to the game, …