Open Season: How Andre Agassi Redefined Tennis

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This podcast follows the player who turned tennis into something louder, bolder, and faster. From crushing returns and baseline brilliance to defying dress codes, challenging authority, and staging one of sport’s greatest comebacks, this series tells the Agassi Agassi story through the moments that changed the game—and who it belonged to.

Episodes

  1. JAN 22

    Factory Settings - Part 2

    This episode follows Andre Agassi’s explosive arrival at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, where his rebellious spirit clashes with the academy’s strict rules. We explore the high-stakes standoff between Agassi and Bollettieri, the breakthrough that follows a raw confrontation, and Andre’s first taste of professional tennis. It’s the story of a young prodigy who learns to turn defiance into fuel—and begins to change the game forever.

    15 min

  2. JAN 21

    Factory Settings - Part 1

    Mike Agassi sees Nick Bollettieri’s tennis academy on TV and makes a call that changes the family’s trajectory. Andre arrives in Bradenton at thirteen, expecting a short trial, and immediately feels what the place really is: not a game, but a grinding machine built on discipline, repetition, and obedience. The episode ends on the central tension that defines everything to come: the system wants compliance, and Andre hates the system.

    17 min

  3. JAN 20

    Rebellion Runs in the Family

    We rewind to a time before Andre Agassi redefined tennis, to show that his first battles weren’t fought on tour—they happened at home. Under Mike Agassi’s relentless, win-at-all-costs rule, each Agassi child forged a unique form of resistance. This episode uncovers the family pattern that planted the seed of Agassi’s revolution: a household built to produce champions—and destined to produce rebels.

    16 min

  4. JAN 19

    Mike Agassi: Father, Fighter, Founder

    We step back before Andre Agassi ever became a headline and meet the engine behind the backyard court: his father, Mike Agassi. This episode traces Mike’s immigrant drive, boxer’s mentality, and obsession with control—how a man who refused to accept limits poured his ambition into a plan for his family. It’s the origin of the intensity, innovation, and pressure that shaped Andre’s future and set the conditions for the player who would later redefine the sport of tennis.

    11 min

  5. JAN 18

    Blueprint for Disruption

    Before Andre Agassi became a global icon, his story began behind a house in Las Vegas—on a tennis court his father insisted on building in their backyard. In Episode 1 of Open Season, we trace how that slab of concrete became a training ground, a pressure cooker, and the first place Andre’s future was engineered. It’s the origin of his timing, his return, and the tension that would define everything: greatness built by design.

    14 min

  6. TRAILER

    Trailer

    Andre Agassi didn’t just win—he changed the sport. In this trailer for Open Season: How Andre Agassi Redefined Tennis, get a first taste of the series exploring how Agassi transformed tennis with punishing returns, on-the-rise baseline attacks, bold style, and a fearless streak that challenged tradition. And when the world counted him out, he delivered one of the greatest comebacks in sports.

    4 min

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This podcast follows the player who turned tennis into something louder, bolder, and faster. From crushing returns and baseline brilliance to defying dress codes, challenging authority, and staging one of sport’s greatest comebacks, this series tells the Agassi Agassi story through the moments that changed the game—and who it belonged to.

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