They asked if I could talk to Agassi on the go as he was getting ready. It wasn’t ideal, but I had to make do with what I was given.
I only had a handful of minutes to talk to him, and about half of it was me telling him the background of why this meant so much to me. He seemed thrilled to learn my story, joking that I sounded “complex” before I let it all out.
I needed to get sneaker information, as that’s what I know everyone wants to read about.
The biggest topic at hand was the re-release of the Air Tech Challenge 2, a sneaker that seems to come back every five years or so at this point.
“I mean, I love it. I mean, it’s like bringing back a piece of history and a piece of my life,” said Agassi. “I’ve enjoyed that whole journey with Nike and being such an intimate part of designing it, giving input, and then watching it come to life and how people reacted then. And then seeing it come back.”
Understandably, Agassi, who’s now 54 years old, looks much different than he did at the height of his playing days in the ‘90s. Long gone is the shoulder-length hair and beard, in favor of a bald head and clean shave. He jokes, though, that if his sneakers can come back en vogue, so might his fashion sense.
“I literally thought to myself pretty recently, geez, if I live long enough, maybe even the mullet’s going to come back,” he said. “And sure enough, I was in Australia and the mullet’s coming back. I don’t don’t know if I should feel proud or guilty, but in any case, the shoes, a hundred percent proud.”
One of Agassi’s most known looks that hasn’t come back yet are the denim Nike shorts he played in. Fans have been begging for a re-release of them. There was even some hope that they’d be included with this retro of the Air Tech Challenge 2. But Agassi says it’s not happening.
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