Houston (USA), Nov 06: Andre Agassi is spending almost as much time holding a telephone these days as he is swinging a racquet, homesick as he is while preparing for his first ATP event since the birth of his daughter Jaz. Agassi is here working out for the season-ending ATP Masters Cup, an eight-man singles showdown that begins Monday and will decide the year-end world number one for the fourth year in a row.

But Agassi's wife, retired tennis legend Steffi Graf, is at home in Las Vegas with Jaz, born October 03, and their two-year-old son Jaden. "I'm calling home very often," Agassi told the Houston Chronicle. "I'm missing them. My two year old son, when you spend two years with a child, you don't remember life before them, so to be away is tough."

Agassi must also face a new problem - Graf's lack of time to talk with him as she tries to care for two children.

Australian Open champion Agassi was drawn into a tough group for the Masters Cup, joining Wimbledon winner Roger Federer and French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero plus Argentina's David Nalbandian. Bureau Report