LYCOS RETRIEVER
Andre Agassi: Rankings
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August 15th 2006: Andre ... withdrew from this week's event in Cincinnati..."Andre is reluctantly unable to play," tournament director Bruce Flory said in a statement. "He had every intention of playing, but just didn't feel physically right in his practice sessions here.
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"It was a physical issue that grew to be a real physical concern," Agassi says of the degenerative disc disease spondylolisthesis, which caused one of the vertebrae in his lower back to slip out of place. As the disease progressed, the disc began pinching his sciatic nerve, a condition called
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