Complaint About Blimp Is an Easy Lob for Agassi

Andre Agassi and Justin Gimelstob, a couple of guys with a fun history, had kind of a fun time with the blimp floating overhead Saturday during Agassi’s 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory.

During the 1998 Los Angeles tournament at UCLA, Gimelstob, a former UCLA player, beat Patrick Rafter in the quarterfinals and immediately declared that the Los Angeles Center at UCLA was “his house.”

The next day, Agassi took care of him in the semifinals and, when asked what happened in “his house,” Gimelstob said that it was still his house, but “he was just leasing it” to Andre.

During Saturday’s third-round U.S. Open match on the Arthur Ashe stadium court, Gimelstob became bothered by the blimp, saying that looking up at it disrupted his service toss. He asked the chair umpire if the blimp could be moved.

Agassi, once again, got the last word.

“I only know a couple of people in New York who could get that blimp moved,” Agassi said, “and Justin Gimelstob is not one of them.”