Humbled Spadea Gains 3rd Round; Agassi Only Other American Man Left

It is not hard to become accustomed to having someone to drive youplaces, and someone else to string your rackets, and someone else todevise your practice schedule and field your media requests and makeyour dinner reservations. It is not hard to become accustomed tobeing a top player on the tennis tour, so it wasn't until AmericanVince Spadea wasn't one anymore that he realized just how good he hadbeen having it.

"It was something I had worked for my whole life and I didn't evenrealize it when it was happening -- you're making the money and goingto tournaments and it just starts to become a ritual, you go fromweek to week to week," he said this afternoon at the French …

Humbled Spadea Gains 3rd Round; Agassi Only Other American Man Left

It is not hard to become accustomed to having someone to drive youplaces, and someone else to string your rackets, and someone else todevise your practice schedule and field your media requests and makeyour dinner reservations. It is not hard to become accustomed tobeing a top player on the tennis tour, so it wasn't until AmericanVince Spadea wasn't one anymore that he realized just how good he hadbeen having it.

"It was something I had worked for my whole life and I didn't evenrealize it when it was happening -- you're making the money and goingto tournaments and it just starts to become a ritual, you go fromweek to week to week," he said this afternoon at the French …