1.   Come to think of it, what tennis really needs is the original rogue, Pancho Gonzales.

2.   Graf needs this tournament more, and tennis needs Graf.

3.   I keep hearing that tennis needs another Tiger Woods.

4.   Pro tennis needed him and his Grand Slam luster to keep going.

5.   Tennis certainly needs an infusion of some sort.

6.   Tennis needs Agassi to play well.

7.   Tennis needs him dating Barbra Streisand one year and Brooke Shields the next.

8.   Tennis needs its rivalries.

9.   Tennis needs his colorful character, they said, as well as a player to consistently challenge Sampras for the top, as Agassi once did.

10.   Tennis needs some kind of artificial boost or else it will remain the province mostly of people who can afford the lessons and the clothes and the court time.