Video: Andre Agassi’s “60 Minutes” interview covers hating tennis, crystal meth use and the wig

• Martina Navratilova on “The Early Show” Monday (CBS)
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• Andre Agassi’s book: Open: An Autobiography is officially out today and I predict it’s going to be a huge seller. Last night’s compelling interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes certainly won’t hurt sales because Agassi seemed to be so candid about his life, really an open book.
• First, I gotta share the part where he talks about being more worried about his hair weave falling off during the 1990 French Open final versus Andres Gomez than winning the title: On his hair: I as praying not for the win bit for my hair would stay on. Scared the heck out of me. I kept envisioning what this would be like if my hair flew off. What would I do? Would I quickly put it back on? Would I take it home and name it? I didn’t know what I was going to do, I didn’t have a plan for what I was going to do. That’s why I was trying to move less and less. When the match was over, I had won … [laughs] just because my hair had stayed on.”
• I was surprised to learn how much he hated tennis as a kid when he had to practice 5-6 hours a day even as a six-year-old! “It always came with a level of anxiety, it always came with a level of pressure. None of it really made sense to me. I don’t ever remember really not hating it.”
• After he lost the 1995 US Open final to Pete Sampras, he began a two year descent both personally and professionally. He had married Brooke Shields but didn’t really want to be in the marriage and he didn’t want to be playing tennis: “My life was filled with things I didn’t want,” he told Couric.
• This is when he turned to crystal meth for the better part of 1997: He said it provided “a chemically-induced reconnection to life. I was looking for anything to get off the couch, to make me re-engage in life. … I knew what I was doing but tennis wasn’t a concern to me because I didn’t care about tennis.”
• He told Couric he doesn’t know how many times he did the drug: “It was way more than it should have been.”
• But after his coach gave him an ultimatum following a bad loss in Germany, Andre for the first time chose to play tennis – the first time in his life that he had chosen to play the game – for himself. He was 27 years old and ranked 141 in the world.
• The rest is history: a return to number one, five more grand slam titles, great respect and adoration from fans and marriage to Steffi Graf.
• Here is much of the 60 Minutes piece: