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Andre Agassi, the former Wimbledon champion, has admitted the long lion-mane hairstyle he wore during the 1990s was actually a wig.

The tennis ace said he was so destracted by thoughts of the hairpiece falling off and causing him huge embarrassment during his first Grand Slam final that he lost the match.

Agassi made the confession about his locks, which won him a legion of female admirers, in his new autobiography, Open.

He said: “Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole.

“I asked myself: you want to wear a toupee? On the tennis court? I answered myself; what else could I do?”

He wore the wig for the French Open in 1990, the first time he had reached a Grand Slam final.

“Then a fiasco happened,” he said. “The evening before the match I stood under the shower and felt my wig suddenly fall apart.

“Probably I used the wrong hair rinse. I panicked and called my brother Philly into the room.

“It’s a total disaster!” I said to him. He looked at it and said he could clamp it with hair clips.

“It took 20 clips. “Do you think it will hold?” I asked. “Just don’t move so much,” he said.

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However it isn’t just men who suffer from the affliction, The Hospital Group have seen treatments for women rise by 300 per cent over the five year period.

October 2009

Having your scalp licked by a cow or rubbing curry powder into your head might not seem the most logical way to stop a receding hairline, but for centuries these are just two of the more bizarre methods people have used.

But fear not, balding Brits need suffer in silence no longer. Figures released by leading hair transplant provider, The Hospital Group, show a massive 444 per cent growth in treatment between 2004 – 2009.

Recent years have seen celebrities help raise the profile of hair loss, and in particular how to cure it. Cold Feet star, James Nesbitt, Fawlty Towers actor, John Cleese, former rugby star Austin Healey and even HRH Prince William have all been the victims of increased sensitivity to male sex hormones (androgens), which induces premature hair loss.

Nesbitt and Cleese have tackled the problem head on though, both undergoing cosmetic surgery to cure their ailments.

However it isn’t just men who suffer from the affliction, The Hospital Group have seen treatments for women rise by 300 per cent over the five year period.

An epidemic of alopecia is said to be sweeping across the country, damaging hair follicles so that hair falls out and cannot grow back, with the key contributor said to be stress.

The condition known as Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (FFA) can cause women to lose up to five inches from their hairline. If FFA goes undiagnosed, women can even lose hair at the sides and back of their head.

Scientists believe that FFA is a result of the immune system attacking hair follicles, which causes inflammation at the root. This can damage stem cells in the follicles and prevents hair from growing back entirely.

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