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Agassi’s obscenities get him booted from San Jose event

Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999 | 10:33 a.m.

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Las Vegan Andre Agassi, seemingly on his way to an easy victory over an unheralded opponent, was defaulted from the Sybase Open for a series of "audible obscenities" Wednesday night in San Jose, Calif.

Agassi won the first set 6-0 over qualifier Cecil Mamiit. In a second-set tiebreaker, trailing four points to none, Agassi began cursing.

Linesman Al Klassen went to chair umpire Steve Ulrich to report Agassi's comment, and Agassi was warned. Agassi made another comment -- apparently aimed at the linesman -- and was penalized a point.

As Klassen returned to his chair, Agassi repeated an obscenity and ATP Tour supervisor Tom Barnes was called to the court. He conferred with Ulrich, who defaulted Agassi and awarded the second-round match to Mamiit.

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