US Open 2024 live updates: Fritz faces Sinner in men's final, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in attendance

It's a late summer afternoon. The middle row of a very large SUV is heading toward Manhattan. Traffic is backed up in the Midtown Tunnel. This could be a slow drive back into the city from the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the US Open.

That's exactly what you want, because you're sitting next to one of tennis' most restless and profound minds, an eight-time Grand Slam champion who hasn't had many conversations like this in the last 14 years.

Andre Agassi has been hiding out in Las Vegas most of the time, a living, breathing tennis sphinx to many but a few. You have some questions. Where has he been all this time? What brings him back? And why is he even here? Little things like that.

With Agassi, it was always about his eyes, those little dark almonds. Now those eyes look at you from two feet away, widen to shout nonsense, but almost always meet your gaze. You want to go deep, you ask? OK. Then let's go deep. Read more below.