Full US Open Match Video: Agassi vs. Ginepri, 2004 first round

With the current suspension of the ATP and WTA Tours, we are opening up our US Open vault to bring you full match videos of classic encounters through the years in New York. 

Watch on YouTube: Andre Agassi vs. Robby Ginepri, 2004 US Open men's singles first round

One year before their epic 2005 semifinal, Andre Agassi and Robby Ginepri met in the 2004 US Open first round. The '04 meeting was the third of four career matchups between the Americans, and a dominant Agassi made it a perfect eight sets won in eight sets played against his opponent with another straight-sets victory in a battle of baseline bruisers.

Three of the four Agassi-Ginepri encounters came at the US Open, in 2002, 2004 and 2005. While an unseeded Ginepri did force a tiebreak in the opening set in '04, it was not until their final meeting the following year that he managed to take a set off the American legend.

Agassi, seeded No. 6, went on to reach the quarterfinals in 2004, before falling to eventual champion Roger Federer in a #USOpenClassics match that—in Arthur Ashe Stadium's pre-roof days—was heavily affected by rain and heavy winds. Federer rode the momentum of that five-set victory to win the first of his five straight US Open men's singles titles.

Ginepri returned in '05, unseeded again, to make a surprise run to the semis that stood up as the best Grand Slam performance of his career. He would end the 2005 season with a career-high ATP ranking of No. 15.

The complete 2004 first-round showdown, along with scores of other great content, is now available to watch on the USTA YouTube channel, or below.