Andre Agassi entertains in Indian Wells tennis benefit

Category Tennis | Saturday, March 13th, 2010

The showcase stadium was sold out Friday night.

Andre Agassi hit a forehand that almost hit Pete Sampras in the back, and everyone in the stadium in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden laughed.

Agassi was playing tennis in his sweatpants, but his groundstrokes were working.

It wasn’t exactly competitive tennis, though. This was for charity, an exhibition called “Hit for Haiti,” put on by new tournament owner Larry Ellison and his company Oracle. It wouldn’t have worked so well though if Agassi, Sampras, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal hadn’t agreed to play.

And Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Lindsay Davenport and Justine Henin too.

The goal was to raise $1 million for Haiti earthquake survivors. Most of the tennis was for fun, but there was the occasional purpose point.

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