Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf: All About the Tennis Stars’ Marriage and Family

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are a love match.

While he admits to being “taken by” the fellow tennis player in the early 1990s, the couple would not marry until ten years later.

Agassi, who was previously married to actress Brooke Shields, once told Forbes India that accepting Graf’s marriage proposal was the “highest point of his life”.

“She was the hardest to win,” he stated.

Agassi told The Cut in 2014 that he admired Graf “from a distance and marveled at her” early on. The tennis power couple, who have since retired from the sport, married in 2001 and have two children.

“What has overcome everything has been our common platform and fundamental orientation to life. “It’s better to be lucky than good sometimes,” Agassi told Parade about himself and Graf. “I don’t feel like I have any answer to how to have successful relationships, but I do feel overwhelmed with the joy that I feel every day.”

In January 2024, the pair celebrated the new year together, posing on an Instagram snap uploaded by Agassi. “With Love ❤️,” he added in the caption.

From their initial meeting to their marriage and family life, here’s all you need to know about Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf’s relationship.

Agassi had a crush on Graf before meeting her.

at 2009, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi played at the Roland-Garros Tennis Tournament.
Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi competed in the Roland-Garros Tennis Tournament in 2009.
Agassi had a crush on his future bride before they met in person. “I’ve had a crush on Steffi since I first saw her doing an interview on French TV,” he said in his memoir, Open. “I was thunderstruck, dazzled by her understated grace, her effortless beauty.”

Following the French Open in 1991, Agassi attempted to reach out to his crush. “But she didn’t respond,” he said in his book.

Teffi Graf and Andre Agassi were introduced after winning Wimbledon in the same year. They received their trophies at the post-Wimbledon dinner. 

Agassi had the opportunity to meet Graf after winning his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 1992. She won the women’ singles tennis title at the same tournament that year. Agassi was “dying to go” to the Wimbledon Ball, which he had heard about for years because the men’s winner had the opportunity to dance with the women’s winner. He even bought a tuxedo from Harrods for the occasion, but was told that the dance had been canceled.

“I won’t get to dance with Steffi, but there will be a sort of consolation match: an official introduction. I’m looking forward to it all night. “Then it happens,” he writes in his book. “Shaking her hand, I inform Steffi that I attempted to contact her at last year’s French Open and hope she did not misinterpret my intentions. I say, “I’d really like to talk to you sometime.”

Years after their first meeting, their coaches scheduled a practice for them.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf outside the Practice Court in 1999
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf outside the Practice Court in 1999. Graf was perplexed as to why Agassi, who married Shields in 1997, wanted to practice beside her in 1999. “Our coaches kind of set up the whole practice and, you know, I was like, ‘Why does he want to practice with me?” she remembered in an interview with Vijay Amritraj.

“He is married. “I have a boyfriend,” she added. “It was all a little confusing to me.”

Graf returned to her hotel room after their practice in Key Biscayne to find a bunch of roses and a nice card. “We had a brief conversation after that where I kind of said that I’ve got a boyfriend and, you know, all I know is that he’s married,” Graf said, adding that she had no knowledge he was divorcing at the time. When she learned about his divorce a few weeks later, “things became a little clearer.”

According to Agassi, the cosmos clearly indicated that Graf was the one.
Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi attended the Keep Memory Alive Foundation’s “Power of Love Gala” in 2012.
Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi attended the Keep Memory Alive Foundation’s “Power of Love Gala” in 2012. According to Ethan Miller/Getty, Agassi believed Graf had a 50/50 chance of being the right fit for him. Having already made “one bad call,” he reasoned that his odds may be better. “But sometimes the universe whispers, sometimes it screams,” Agassi explained in an interview with The Cut.

He stated that when he was divorcing Shields, the Pretty Baby actress hung a picture of Graf’s legs on the fridge with a heart-shaped magnet because those were the legs she desired. Agassi stated, “That’s the universe screaming,” and added, “It’s a bullhorn.”

They married in 2001.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf

Graf and Agassi married in a low-key ceremony just days before their first child was supposed to be born in October 2001. The tennis player recounted in his novel that he and Graf summoned their families and a Nevada judge to their home, where they exchanged vows in their courtyard “barefoot and wearing jeans.” Graf discovered twists of old raffia in a drawer, which the couple used as wedding bands.

They have two children.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf attended Agassi’s 12th Annual Grand Slam for Children in 2007.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf attend Agassi’s 12th Annual Grand Slam for Children in 2007. Charley Gallay/Getty Images
The couple welcomed their first child, son Jaden Gil Agassi, in October 2001, and their daughter, Jaz Elle Agassi, on October 3, 2003. He revealed in his book that after his daughter was born, he and his wife secretly promised that Jaz would not play tennis, just as they did with their son. Jaden, their kid, does not play tennis like his parents. In 2019, the baseball player signed with the University of Southern California, with his proud parents standing behind him.

According to Agassi, his children never recognized their parents were famous; rather, they gradually began to comprehend why people would approach them and want to speak with him and Graf in public.

While speaking with PEOPLE in March 2024, Agassi stated, “You go through a whole process of them going, ‘Well, this makes no sense that the people are coming up as if there’s a huge issue.’ And then they start to understand why it’s such a big deal.

He went on, “They begin to realize they are peeking beyond the Wizard of Oz curtain and that it is not all that. So there’s a healthy balance that is kind of unavoidable throughout the entire process.”

Agassi introduced his wife during her Tennis Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi attended the Class of 2004 induction ceremony at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi attended the Class of 2004 induction ceremony at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Graf was moved to tears when Agassi introduced her during her 2004 International Tennis Hall of Fame induction ceremony, as captured by Joe . “As I attempt to find words worthy to introduce the person that has changed my life, I realize the words have yet to be invented that are large enough, colorful enough, or true enough to express the heart and soul of this woman that I love,” Agassi said the audience during his address.

Agassi closed his remarks by describing his wife as “the greatest person” he has ever known. As she took the microphone, an emotional Graf stated, “Not that this occasion isn’t emotional enough, but hearing you are loved so much is amazing.”