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Anyone see how bald Pete Sampras is getting?

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aram...@my-deja.com

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Jul 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/2/99
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I've been watching Wimbledon, and BY GOD is Pete Sampras going down
the path of the Alopecia stricken.
About a year or so ago he had fine hair, then he kinda disappeared for
awhile, went off the boil and stopped winning everything, and now when
he reappears again his scalp was showing everywhere, real bad at the
vertex.
I think he might have become depressed at losing hair and went off
tennis or awhile. People underestimate how psychologically damaging
hairloss is.
It messed up Andre Agassi didn't? He didn't get on top of things for a
while after going the route of the shaven head.


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drunkn...@my-deja.com

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Jul 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/2/99
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In article <7lj3r5$kes$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

aram...@my-deja.com wrote:
> I've been watching Wimbledon, and BY GOD is Pete Sampras going down
> the path of the Alopecia stricken.

Matthew McConnahey(sp?) the actor, is also not not long for the the
realm of lovely locks. Call me petty, but it always warms the cockles
of my heart when a former posterboy-type loses his hair. It kind of
reminds women that no guy is safe from the grasping claw of hairloss.

--Kristian

Slickwell

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Jul 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/2/99
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>Matthew McConnahey(sp?) the actor, is also not not long for the the
>realm of lovely locks. Call me petty, but it always warms the cockles
>of my heart when a former posterboy-type loses his hair. It kind of
>reminds women that no guy is safe from the grasping claw of hairloss.
>
>--Kristian

yea but the dude STILL is nice looking even without a full head of hair, so it
isnt bad on him. AS for the rest of us....

Jim Ravazzolo

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Jul 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/2/99
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aram...@my-deja.com wrote:
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> I've been watching Wimbledon, and BY GOD is Pete Sampras going down
> the path of the Alopecia stricken.

haven't seen him play yet, but I doubt he's in dire straits when it
comes to hair - he's always had very thick, curly hair. A situation
like that doesn't change very quickly, especially at his age.

BCgrad94

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Jul 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/3/99
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im a tennis fan and a big fan of pete-
and believe me its changed for the worse
in the last year or so- in the early to mid-90's, all you ever saw was thick,
bushy hair but now you can see quite a bit
of thinning on the crown and the vertex and even the temples-
it just shows you that no one is immune from it

Tom Goodwin

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Jul 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/3/99
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aram...@my-deja.com wrote:

> I've been watching Wimbledon, and BY GOD is Pete Sampras going down
> the path of the Alopecia stricken.

I was watchin' yesterday and made the same observation.

> About a year or so ago he had fine hair, then he kinda disappeared for
> awhile, went off the boil and stopped winning everything, and now when
> he reappears again his scalp was showing everywhere, real bad at the
> vertex.
> I think he might have become depressed at losing hair and went off
> tennis or awhile. People underestimate how psychologically damaging
> hairloss is.
> It messed up Andre Agassi didn't? He didn't get on top of things for a
> while after going the route of the shaven head.

I wish more people would follow the Agassi route and just shave or buzz
their hair short. Agassi shows how good it can look when it is extremely
short.

Tom


Tom Goodwin

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Jul 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/4/99
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Jim Ravazzolo wrote:

> aram...@my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> > I've been watching Wimbledon, and BY GOD is Pete Sampras going down
> > the path of the Alopecia stricken.
>

> haven't seen him play yet, but I doubt he's in dire straits when it
> comes to hair - he's always had very thick, curly hair. A situation
> like that doesn't change very quickly, especially at his age.

I'm not sure what age has to do with it. I have seen both young and old
people lose their hair slowly, and others who have lost their hair
quickly. To say that Sampras is in dire straits is sort of relative. If
someone who is a Norwood 6 saw him they might laugh at the fact that I
considered the hairloss signficant. But as a Norwood 1-2 or so, yes, I do
consider his hairloss significant.

Tom


Mohairnow

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Jul 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/5/99
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>I wish more people would follow the Agassi route and just shave or buzz
>their hair short. Agassi shows how good it can look when it is extremely
>short.
>
>Tom
>
>
>

Believe me, when Agassi goes to one of his time-wasting, celebrity parties, and
is shoulder to shoulder with hairy Jeff Bridges or Mike Douglas, he eats his
heart out.

When Catherine Zeta-Jones chooses a viagra munching Douglas over Agassi, he
sees what his hairline means, even with all his moolah.

PipSqueakJ

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Jul 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/5/99
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You hit it right on the button

Nick

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Jul 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/5/99
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I dare say Catherine Zeta jones would choose Andre if he could get her into
the next big pic to come along.


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steve_...@my-deja.com

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Jul 6, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/6/99
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If
> someone who is a Norwood 6 saw him they might laugh at the fact that I
> considered the hairloss signficant. But as a Norwood 1-2 or so, yes,
I do
> consider his hairloss significant.
>
> Tom

As a NW 3 to 4.5 I consider it significant too. He has pretty serious
diffuse thinning, much worse than mine I'd say (though it's hard to
compare straight hair with curly) even if the frontal loss is less than
mine. His progression seems pretty swift - only first noticeable
perhaps a couple'a years back.

Steve.

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Le vendredi 2 juillet 1999 à 09:00:00 UTC+2, aram...@my-deja.com a écrit :
> I've been watching Wimbledon, and BY GOD is Pete Sampras going down
> the path of the Alopecia stricken.
https://sites.google.com/view/signsofbaldingat20/
> About a year or so ago he had fine hair, then he kinda disappeared for
> awhile, went off the boil and stopped winning everything, and now when
> he reappears again his scalp was showing everywhere, real bad at the
> vertex.
> I think he might have become depressed at losing hair and went off
> tennis or awhile. People underestimate how psychologically damaging
> hairloss is.
> It messed up Andre Agassi didn't? He didn't get on top of things for a
> while after going the route of the shaven head.
>
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