Andre Agassi says that he knew that he would never beat Rafael Nadal after seeing the teenager in 2004, 12 months prior to their first-ever meeting.

As the American was in the very final stretch of his career, a new force in tennis was on the rise – someone who would break the dominance of a young Roger Federer.

As tennis fans know, that person was Rafael Nadal, and, whilst the tennis scene had drastically changed, the teenage Spaniard still had opportunities to play the giants of the past.

Nadal would play Agassi – himself – on two occasions, once in Wimbledon and the other in Canada.

However, it was the eight-time champion’s first (off-court) encounter with Nadal at the French Open in the mid-2000s that displayed to Agassi that he would be a force to be renowned with.

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