ATP won't reopen Agassi drug case

AAP - November 21, 2009

The ATP will not reopen a doping case against Andre Agassi over his admission about drug use in 1997, tour chairman Adam Helfant said on Friday.

Agassi revealed in his recent autobiography that he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test, a result he says was thrown out after he lied by claiming he "unwittingly" took the illegal substance.

However, Helfant said there was no...Read more

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