Many former players transition to roles in broadcasting after retiring, with varying levels of success. Throughout TNT’s coverage of the 2025 French Open, Andre Agassi has quickly proven to many that he’s got what it takes.
Agassi’s tennis credentials require no introduction, as he won eight major singles championships throughout his illustrious career. Particularly, his victory at the 1999 French Open makes him uniquely qualified to speak about what it takes to win.
When TNT Sports announced that Agassi would be joining the network for its first year of French Open coverage as a studio analyst, there was considerable interest and curiosity. We have seen on numerous occasions that being an elite-level player doesn’t always translate to success in a broadcasting role.
So far, Agassi has lived up to the expectations. Especially so on Friday when he expertly broke down some year-over-year mechanical changes to Carlos Alcaraz’s backhand.
“I do like the adjustments he has made,” said Agassi. “So here is last year. He’s taking the ball up higher, his right arm is a little bent. So the racket head is going up long before it comes down. When you have got a guy like this. Freeze it right there. His arm is slightly bent, he is taking it up pretty darn high. Now, he has to drop it, get underneath, pull through with the right hand and finish. The dude is so fast-twitched that really what he has in his backhand there is just a variable that he doesn’t need to deal with.
“This year, it is different. Look at how he is taking the racket back. He takes it back with a straight right arm. His left is way under control. A great way to simplify it is like a golf swing, right? You get to the top of your swing, you have that pause, you drop in the slot, and you let it go. He is getting himself to that slot right away. That’s what I love about it. Because that not only gives him the option to sort of settle down some misfires, but he can hold the ball longer. When you watch here, because of what he is doing… See his racket face is already closed. That ball can travel deeper; that ball travels deeper in the strike zone.
“They don’t know if he is going to hold and pull across, or if he is going to hold and just go inside off-line. And he can just leave his opponent with their jockstrap on the ground. I mean, look at this, he can go either direction with this. Because, in tennis, power and control comes with time spent on racket with the ball. I don’t care how you swing, if you swing like Nadal, if you swing through, you can keep that ball on the racket a split-second longer. You have more power, you’ve got more control, and you have more deception.”
While this is just one example of what Agassi provides to TNT’s French Open broadcasts, the rest of his work has also received positive feedback, with many media members and tennis fans alike singing his praises on social media.
“Need Andre Agassi and Jim Courier providing analysis at every Grand Slam,” wrote Chicco Nacion of The Score.
“Andre Agassi is an insanely good analyst,” wrote Matt Dowell, the sports director at WACH Fox 57 in Columbia, South Carolina.
“I’m not a huge tennis guy, but this is first-level analysis and I learned a ton,” wrote Kraig Kann, a SiriusXM host and former host on the Golf Channel.
“Fundamentals. Knowledge. Practice. Development. Nuance. Improvement. Love this,” wrote ESPN women’s college basketball recruiting analyst Shane Laflin.
The Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins had perhaps the most pointed praise for Agassi, although it came at the expense of some of his fellow TNT tennis analysts.
Agassi was someone who already had an established name in the sport before his work at this year’s French Open. However, based on this response to his coverage, it seems likely that the door will be open to him for future broadcasting opportunities should he want them.