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'I never played tennis while high,' says Andre Agassi

Source: guardian.co.uk Sport

Nov 09, 2009

Summary

• Crystal meth would make it 'impossible' to play
• Reaction to book has not surprised him

Andre Agassi claims it would be physically impossible to play tennis while high on crystal meth and says he never played the game while doped.

In an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald in the wake of his admission that he once took crystal meth and then lied about it, Agassi was emphatic about the deleterious effects of playing while high.

"No, I never did it in tournaments," Agassi said, addressing rumours he may have played while doped. "I never did because it would have been a disaster. It's hideous; it's not the way you feel but what you're incapable of. Your heart rate runs high enough as it is but to have that kind of heart rate and to tell yourself to calm down and hit a second serve is literally impossible.

"Then there's the dehydration factor, the fact you can't drink a lot of water, you don't want to eat, you just wanna burn, you wanna burn, you wanna burn. You'd be lucky to last a set; it would not be physically possible to play a match without real health prob

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