June 26, 2007
While tennis fans are beginning to focus on Wimbledon, some La Jolla Shores sunbathers just got a special treat. Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, vacationing here with their children, came across Gretchen Magers playing beach tennis the other day and stopped to join in.
Beach tennis? It's a game of volleys (no bouncing) on sand courts with a volleyball-type net, tennis racquets and a depressurized tennis ball. Magers, a La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club pro, is tied for top-rated Beach Tennis USA contender in this fairly new sand sport that is rapidly growing in popularity. A tournament was held this month in Pacific Beach.
Agassi and another companion, tennis pal Sargis Sargsian, teamed up in an impromptu doubles match against Magers and La Jollan Tiffany Worst.
Worst later told her father, Bill Kellogg, it was one of the best days of her life because, after playing against Agassi on the sand, she traded volleys on a tennis court with Graf.
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