Andre Agassi admits he tested positive for crystal meth during his playing days—and says the ATP concealed his violation after he lied about how it entered his system.
Fellow former world No. 1 Marcelo Rios now claims an ATP cover-up of Agassi drug violations is more extensive.
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Rios claims the ATP covered up four Agassi drug tests.
"They caught him four times and the ATP covered him because he was Agassi and the tennis was going to shit," Rios told Marca. "They really are shit, all gringos."
In his memoir, Open, Agassi admitted testing positive for meth and receiving a silent ban from after he concocted a false story of how the drug entered his system.
The Hall of Famer says that failed drug test prompted him to take a long look at his life and helped him turn his career around.
If Open is accurate, the book suggests Agassi was self-medicating long before he snorted his first line of meth.
In his memoir, Agassi suggests his father fed him a white pill, suspected to be speed, during a junior national tournament in Chicago; is awarded his first beer "a cold Fosters Lager" at age 12 by a junior coach after winning a tournament in Adelaide, Australia; graduates to smoking weed and drinking "gallons" of Jack Daniels as a junior at the Bollettieri Academy and numbs the pain of his personal life by occasionally swallowing sleeping pills he chases down with vodka prior to the start of long plane rides.
Rios did not state which drug he believes Agassi was using in his cover-up charge to Marca.
While some former champions, including John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova, say homogenized surface speeds have transformed tennis to a baseline game and killed some of the sport's variety, Rios argues that in his era Masters surface speeds were calibrated quicker to benefit attacking players like Pete Sampras.
"The Masters was always quick for Sampras to win," Rios told Marca. "With [Sergi] Bruguera we talked about the tournament having to have a different surface every year. We always preached the same, the South Americans."
The temperamental Chilean also took a shot at the serve becoming too dominant on the ATP Tour and advocates one serve rather than two.
"It is absurd because the one who invented it gives a lot of advantage to people like Karlovic," Rios told Marca. "He is 40 years old but of course he is not going to retire because he hits it out of a building."
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