Agassi serve experiment anno 1993...?

[Jules]

Hi guys!
I just stumbled upon this video on youtube of Agassi against Sampras in Wimbledon 1993 and couldn't help but notice Agassi's Mariano Puerta'esque service motion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpjys2heNA&feature=related

It is pretty different from both his 1988 service motion against Wilander...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsqzTGrXPo
(go to 7:04 for a clear view on his serve)

...and the 2006 version of his serve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ku1Brn-YM&feature=related

I know Agassi was sort of a searching soul who was always experimenting with new ideas, but do any of you know more about his experimenting with the serve?

Cheers
Jules

 

[hoodjem]

He did it that way to make sure his hairpiece didn't fall off.

 

[Datacipher]

Hi guys!
I just stumbled upon this video on youtube of Agassi against Sampras in Wimbledon 1993 and couldn't help but notice Agassi's Mariano Puerta'esque service motion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpjys2heNA&feature=related

It is pretty different from both his 1988 service motion against Wilander...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsqzTGrXPo
(go to 7:04 for a clear view on his serve)

...and the 2006 version of his serve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ku1Brn-YM&feature=related

I know Agassi was sort of a searching soul who was always experimenting with new ideas, but do any of you know more about his experimenting with the serve?

Cheers
Jules

I've written about this many times before, Agassi went through about a dozen distinct incarnations of his serve.

This particular one was a short lived version he used coming back from wrist injury. He was having troubles with rhythm, and adopted this simplified motion, though he never intended to keep it. (though it worked quite well). By the summer hard courts, he was back to a full motion.

 

[Datacipher]

He did it that way to make sure his hairpiece didn't fall off.

By 1993, his hat NEVER came off....

 

[robow7]

He did it that way to make sure his hairpiece didn't fall off.

Too funny