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'I was scared': Agassi on tennis atop Burj Al Arab
Gulf News
|January 15, 2026
He recalls 2005 friendly with Federer
More than two decades on, tennis legend Andre Agassi still vividly remembers his first visit to Dubai — a moment so striking that he says his heart still skips a beat thinking about it.
Agassi was recalling February 22, 2005, when he took part in one of the most iconic sporting spectacles staged in the emirate: an exhibition tennis match against Roger Federer on the helipad atop the Burj Al Arab, more than 200 metres above sea level - the highest altitude tennis court.
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