BERLIN (IRNA) -- American-Iranian tennis star Andre Agassi always wished he had been able to speak Farsi, the weekly Bunte magazine quoted him as saying Saturday.

The top-ranked tennis player regretted the fact that when he was a child, his Iranian-born father Mohammad Agassi did not teach him any Farsi, according to the report.

Agassi's father appeared in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics as a member of the Iranian Olympic boxing team.