Andre Agasi????

[MadHandle]

I heard his Armenian....

Don't you think thats disrespectful to have your last name cut short like that just cuz it is "easily" pronounced?

I mean no disrespect, I had to reduce my last name too cause it was one of those ones that was too long and complicated to say, basically 1 out of 50 people could read it under a second without chokin' at some point...but I did leave the "ian" in the simplified version. Maybe its me, but I find it disrespectful when people cut their names short like that, specially if their famous like Andre Agasi(and Gwen Stefani?).

[MadHandle]

Who said he cut his name?

what i heard...

Besides if its agasi...then he abviously cut it short.

[Sip]

I deleted after I posted because I saw on the web that he changed it. But it's not "obvious" since aggasi sounds like a common last name. I personally don't see any problem with it ... he moved to a free country!

[hyebruin]

His dad is from Iran, I don't think Agassi is originally an Armenian surname; since I know Persians who have Agassi or sometimes another ending attached to Agassi...It's the Persian influence, but nonetheless he is at least 1/2 Armenian from what I know and I also read somewhere that when he was an infant his dad hung these balls/toys? over his crib to develop his hand eye coordination! talk about a determined Armenian parent! don't know the validity of that story but makes a nice xxxxtail conversation in case you have like NOTHING else to say

what a perverted system!! it though c0cktail is a bad word! uhh!!

[xBaron Dants]

His parents are Barsgahye, and it is not rare for Barsgahyes to have the "i" ending for various reasons.

Other than that, he has appeared on the PBS special "The Armenian Americans", and is actually a friend with Armenian tennisman Sargis Sargsian (they often train together, it seems).

[Anonymouse]

Andre Agassi is Armenian? I thought I heard he was an idiot.

[IvyLipstick]

His dad is from Iran, I don't think Agassi is originally an Armenian surname; since I know Persians who have Agassi or sometimes another ending attached to Agassi...It's the Persian influence, but nonetheless he is at least 1/2 Armenian from what I know and I also read somewhere that when he was an infant his dad hung these balls/toys? over his crib to develop his hand eye coordination! talk about a determined Armenian parent! don't know the validity of that story but makes a nice xxxxtail conversation in case you have like NOTHING else to say

what a perverted system!! it though c0cktail is a bad word! uhh!!

No once again you are wrong. AGAS alone gives off the fact that he is Armenian. I do not need a third syllable to see if he is ARmenian or not and the Persians in America are obviously those banal moochers who mooch off of the one culture that surprisingly enough doesnt slap them around for their idiotic ways (armenians) and they borrow and learn a lot from them and still give you Armenians no credit.

[IvyLipstick]

Andre Agassi is Armenian? I thought I heard he was an idiot.

Yea you are correct, he is a Barsgahye that is what we said.

[HyeJinx1984]

To be honest I don't even know who Andre Agasi is, i've only heard his name on this forum.

[IvyLipstick]

To be honest I don't even know who Andre Agasi is, i've only heard his name on this forum.

WHOA. Get out of the rock, please that really is not good for your rep.