Andre Agassi was stunned by a player ranked outside the top 100 in his final match as a professional tennis player.
Agassi won eight Grand Slam singles titles in his career, with his last coming at the Australian Open in 2003.
However, in the latter years of his career, Agassi struggled a lot with a chronic back injury and reached only one more Grand Slam final.
This led the American to announce that the 2006 US Open would be the final tournament of his career, but it would not end in the fairy-tale way that he would have perhaps hoped.
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After playing minimal tennis in 2006, Agassi was the world number 39 and unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time in eight years at the US Open.
As a result, Agassi would have known that he could have faced anyone from top seed Roger Federer in the first round.
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While he was not quite drawn against Federer that early on, Agassi still had a tricky first round match against Andrei Pavel.
Pavel was a former top 20 player and had reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2002, but Agassi proved to be too much for the Romanian.
It would only get tougher for Agassi, who would then play eighth seed Marcos Baghdatis, who had reached the Australian Open final earlier that year.
This was a first-time meeting between Agassi and Baghdatis, and it was in fact the former who took a two sets to love lead.
Despite the Cypriot making a fightback, Agassi showed that class is permanent by beating Baghdatis in a dramatic four-hour classic.
It would have been understandable for fans of Agassi to start getting carried away after beating the eighth seed, particularly as he was playing the world number 112 Benjamin Becker.
Becker, who has no relation to Boris, had come through qualifying to reach just the second Grand Slam main draw of his career.
Despite being the big underdog, Becker would stun Agassi, beating the eight-time Grand Slam champion 7-5 6(4)-7 6-4 7-5.
This would bring an end to Agassi’s career, as he waved an emotional goodbye to the US Open crowd.
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Benjamin Becker’s Career Achievements
Becker would lose his subsequent match against Andy Roddick, but this was just the start of what would be a respectable career for the German.
Although he is most associated with beating Agassi at the US Open in 2006, Becker actually reached the peak of his career eight years later.
At 33 years old, Becker would reach his career-high ranking of world number 35 in 2014.
| Benjamin Becker’s Career Achievements | |
| Career-high ranking | No.35 (2014) |
| ATP Titles Won | 1 (Rosmalen Championships 2009) |
| Best Grand Slam Result | Fourth Round (US Open 2006) |
| Best Masters 1000 Result | Fourth Round (Miami Open – 2010 & 2014) |
| Number of wins vs top 10 players | 6 |
Becker would also win one ATP title in his career on the grass of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 2009, the same tournament where he would reach the final again five years later.
However, Becker would never improve his best Grand Slam result, having been unable to surpass the third round of a major tournament after 2006.
Becker’s career would come to an end in 2017, after he lost in the second round of qualifying at Wimbledon.
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