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Agassi finds respect and urgency in each match

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, August 31, 2006

NEW YORK -- Andre Agassi was supposed to walk up to the net Thursday night, shake hands with a slightly altered mirror image of his younger self -- an agile, gifted entertainer with frosted hair, bottomless brown eyes and a killer smile -- and graciously pass the torch. Agassi was not supposed to have a chance against No. 8 seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus. This second-round U.S. Open match was supposed to provide the perfect stage for the graying ghost of tennis' past to yield to the flesh-and ...

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