Andre Agassi used crystal meth during career according to Autobiography

I am stunned by this news.  Tennis star Andre Agassi serves up a bombshell in his new memoir, The book, “Open: An Autobiography,” which will be excerpted in People and Sports Illustrated this week. The book itself will be out November 9.  The book details his descent into drug use, as well as his hair loss, his troubled marriage to Brooke Shields and the love he eventually found with his current wife, Steffi Graf.  The rest sounds intriguing, but the drug use is such a betrayal to his later career image of being more fit than his opponents.

The New York Daily News says Agassi specifically used crystal meth in 1997, failed a drug test and boldly lied in a letter to tennis officials in order to successfully dodge a competition ban. 1997 was a low point in Agassi’s career, when a wrist injury sidelined him for much of the season and his world ranking slipped to 141.