![]() ![]() ![]() Though his work ethic was questionable, his blistering forehand helped redefine the game-indeed, the transformation of tennis from serve-and -volley play to today's big groundstrokes was in many ways Mr. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. The results were phenomenal: At age four, Andre had already hit with Jimmy Connors at age seven, he hustled the former football champion Jim Brown out of $500 in a set at age 16, he turned pro. Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Violent and foulmouthed, he single-mindedly groomed his son for tennis greatness even before he could walk. Agassi's fascinating life has been the shadow of his overbearing father, a former Olympic boxer from Iran. We begin to glean the answer with the publication of "Open," a memoir that describes his personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor. Open when he retired in 2006, Andre Agassi always seemed as beset by inner demons as by his opponents across the net. Whether he was the bratty, scrawny teenager from Las Vegas bursting onto the tennis scene in 1986 or the bald, buff 36-year-old elder statesman who received an emotional eight-minute standing ovation at the U.S. ![]()
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