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What's bigger? Connors in '91 or Agassi today?

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

NEW YORK -- Jim Courier, the four-time Grand Slam champion, is up against a wall, literally and figuratively. Standing in a tiny room of the USA Network compound in the bowels of Arthur Ashe Stadium, Courier leans against the concrete and ponders the unanswerable question: In terms of degree of difficulty, which achievement is greater -- Andre Agassi's inspiring run to the semifinals of this U.S. Open at the age of 35, or Jimmy Connors' improbable run to the 1991 Open semifinals at the age of ...

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