Courting Shields to the Altar May Help Agassi on the Court

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The talk of tennis this week is Andre Agassi's marriage to Brooke Shields. While stodgy old guard followers of the sport will complain that this has nothing to do with tennis, the fact is that it does.

Agassi has been asked about the wedding by everyone from the tennis press to Jay Leno since the beginning of the year. Over the past two weeks, gossip queen Liz Smith has reported on possible wedding sites. Since more people have asked me about the wedding than about any other issue in tennis this year, here are the details. . . .

Agassi and Shields, who met four years ago at a tennis match, were married Saturday night at St. John's Chapel in Monterey, Calif., by Charles Gard, a …