![]() ![]() He reveals the depression that shatters his confidence, and the mistake that nearly costs him everything. Alongside vivid portraits of tennis rivals, Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his relationships. Overnight he becomes a fan favourite and a media target.Īgassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match, and every public relationship. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon title. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world's best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning fast return. A lonely, scared, ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. We see him at thirteen, banished to a tennis camp. In his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by conflict.Īgassi makes us feel his panic as an undersized seven-year-old, practicing all day under the obsessive gaze of his violent father. He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court – but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game.Ĭoaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself, an inner conflict that would define him. ![]()
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