Andre Agassi

One of the most usual figures of the recent history of Tennis, Andre Agassi has been recognized as one of the “bad-boys” of tennis, even though perchance in a more positive way than earlier Tennis rebel John McEnroe. Agassi holds numerous records in the sport, and enjoyed a long time rivalry with Pete Sampras, similar to the more recent rivalry that has existed among Nadal and Federer. Andre Agassi trivia will shown that he was born in 1970 in Las Vegas.

Andre Agassi holds a number of records either on his own, or that he shares with a select few other individuals. One of his most impressive attainments is that he is the only male player to have finished a Career Golden Slam. That means that he has won the tournaments at Wimbledon, the US Open, the Australian Open, the French Open, and won at the Olympics. One of the outstanding stories of Tennis trivia that shows up on an Andre Agassi quiz is that the only female player to accomplish the same feat is Agassi’s wife, Steffi Graf.

Other attainments include being one of the three men to have a career Grand Slam (winning all the Golden Grand Slam tournaments except the Olympics). Andre Agassi trivia will also show that he won the Australian open four times, a feat that has not been tied, altho Roger Federer tied his feat for 3 of 4 successive wins in Australia.

Agassi’s personal life has been in the public eye more than is mutual for most tennis players. This is due both to his collaborators and his celebrity which was connected to his effigy and likability in the sport. His introductory marriage lasted less than a year, which was to actress Brooke Shields. His second marriage however, seemed to be the thing of legend, as he and fellow Tennis great, Steffi Graf were married in 1999. They have two children, and live in Las Vegas.

An Andre Agassi quiz will show that he has lately been shot back into the public spotlight. This has come due to the publication of his autobiography, entitled “Open: An Autobiography.” The controversy surrounding drug use in professional athletes has been mounting in recent years, and in the book, Agassi confesses that he had tested positive for methamphetamine use for the duration of his career. The other revelation which stunned much of the sports world was the fact that his trademark flowing hair had genuinely been a wig.

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Far more than a superb essay when it comes to the most eminent levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a noteworthy life.
 
Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the firstborn of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s most eminent honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was many times unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great attainments in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes frankly regarding his early success and his uncomfortable kinship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career.

Review

A New York Times Notable Book and a Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“Agassi may have just penned one of the best sports autobiographies of all time. Check—it’s one of the better memoirs out there, period. . . . An unvarnished, at times inspiring story [told] in an arresting, muscular style. . . . Agassi’s essay is just as entrancing as his tennis game.”
—Time
 
“Fascinating. . . . Inspiring. . . . Open describes Agassi’s personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor. . . . [Agassi’s] career-comeback tale is inspiring but even more so is another Open storyline. It could be called: The punk grows up. . . . Countless athletes commence charitable foundations, but many times the organizations are just tax shelters or PR stunts. For Agassi helping others has rather become his life’s calling. . . . Open is a superb memoir, but it scarcely closes the books on an extraordinary life.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“Honest in a way that such books seldom are. . . . An uncommonly well-written sports memoir. . . . Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.”
—The New York Times
 
“Not your typical jock-autobio fare. This literate and absorbing book is, as the title baldly states, Agassi’s confessional, a wrenching chronicle of his lifelong search for identity and serenity, on and off the court.”
—Los Angeles Times

“The writing here is exceptional. It is can’t-put-down good.”
—Sports Illustrated
 
“An honest, substantive, perceptive autobiography. . . . The bulk of this extraordinary book vividly recounts a lost childhood, a Dickensian adolescence, and a chaotic struggle in adulthood to establish an identity. . . . While not without excitement, Agassi’s comeback to No. 1 is less uplifting than his sheer survival, his aroused resilience, and his good humor in the face of the luckless cards he was oftentimes dealt.”
—The Washington Post
 
“The most revealing, literate, and toes-stompingly honorable sports autobiography in history”
—Rick Reilly, ESPN
 
“Much more than a drug confession—Agassi weaves a arousing and attention holding tale of professional tennis and personal adversity. . . . His tale shows that success is measured both on and off the court.”
—New York Post
 
“Not only has Agassi bared his soul like few professional athletes ever have, he’s done it with a flair and strength that most professional writers can’t even pull off.”
—Entertainment Weekly
 
“[A] heartfelt essay . . . Agassi’s style is open, all right, and his book, like so a great deal of of his tennis games, is a clear winner.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
 
“Hard-won self-knowledge irradiates closely each page of Open. . . . Not just a first-rate sports essay but a authenti bildungsroman, darkly amusive yet likewise anguished and soulful. It confirms what Agassi’s admirers sensed from the outset, that this showboat . . . was not clamoring for attention but rather conducting a struggle to wrest some semblance of selfhood from the sport that threatened to devour him.”
—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A riveting and reflective essay by a man who rose to the top of his sport—despite hating it.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Celebrity tell-alls have seldom been this honorable and this interesting.”
—Baltimore Sun
 
“A bright portrait of the internal battle faced in some measure by each athlete.”
—Bloomberg News
 
“Articulate. . . . Expertly rendered.”
—The Morning News (Boston)
 
“Refreshingly candid. . . . This lively, revealing, and agreeably diverting book is sure to roil the tennis world and make a big splash beyond.”
—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Andre Agassi played tennis in a professional manner from 1986 to 2006. Often ranked number one, he captured eight Grand Slam singles championships. Founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, he has raised more than $85 million for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy for underprivileged children in Las Vegas, where he lives with his wife, Stefanie Graf, and their two children.
 
Visit the author’s website: www.agassifoundation.org

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366 of 386 persons found the following review helpful.
This book will modify you. In a good way.
By H. S. Brice
So you’re thinking this might be one of those not long back retired widely known and esteemed persons books aren’t you? One where a celebrity, or a Politician, or a sports star cranks out hundreds of pages of self-serving, history-correcting drivel in order to cash the huge advance check. A book you can’t even fetch yourself to finish; better than a tranquilizer at bedtime.

74 of 79 persons found the following review helpful.
Image Is Everything
By prisrob
Andre Agassi has written a ‘tell-all’ book regarding his life in tennis. And, it turns out, he hated tennis. That was a more prominent shocker to me than the salacious fact that he was on ‘crystal meth’for a amount of time of time. J.R. Moehringer, the author of ‘A Tender Bar’ and a Pulitzer Prize winner for his writing was a co-author of this autobiography. Andre loved Moehringer’s writing in ‘The Tender Bar’, and he is correct, the man’s writing and the book are excellent. This book, too, is very well written and is an particular read.

62 of 70 persons found the following review helpful.
Inspiring – Must Read
By A. Velautham
We have all read the press and watched the news; the drug allegations, the “I hate tennis”. Tennis fans aren’t rather sure whether they ought to feel cheated for all the love and support they have given Andre, to me the book set things straight.

Most of us look back at chapters of our lives and may tell apart with exceptionally unhappy periods. Andre kicks off the book with what was going through his head with the match versus Baghdatis in the 2006 US Open. It is a blow by blow account of key constituents of the match and a thought provoking glimpse into the mind and heart of a tennis player. He then goes straight into his childhood, the uncomfortableness and unhappiness of being the child prodigy son of an obsessive father. There are weirdly honorable stories – his grandmother tried to breastfeed him, very disturbing but a revelation of a dysfunctional upbringing. What seems to carry Andre through his childhood are friendships with his brother Phil and Perry who later becomes his manager. The importance of the childhood friendships are critical and from the way they are explained it is easy to understand why these friends are primary figures for Andre.

The critical friendship is that of his mentor/guide/life coach/surrogate father Gill Reyes. Andre is taken underneath his wing and treated with the love and respect a father must treat his son, you sense through the stories in the book that now they have met each other neither could in truth subsist happily without the other. His marriage with Brooke Shields is dealt with candidly, numerous will buy this book to find out what celebrities do behind closed doors. Whereas I did think Brooke appeared superficial from a heap of of the things noted here, I think it merely shows how fame affects humans differently. It appears that fame as a child makes persons so sensing orientated that perceptions are more essential than anything else – who may judge the pressures these guys live through? Perfectly understandable in my opinion.

The drugs issue is dealt with here but only for a few pages in the book. The very weird thing is it doesn’t seem like a huge deal to me. Like most fans I was shocked and more or less critical of the harm to his sport. But, I could grasp after reading the book how stupid faults may be made. Off the book for a second truth is he wouldn’t have got the endorsements for 10′s of millions had he been suspended, or there would have been a clause in his existent deals that he would have broken had the allegations come out. However, reading the book and seeing what has been done with the cash I can’t support but feel it was better for everyone that not one thing came out at the time.

Andre talks in regards to his attraction to Stefanie from a good deal of years back, the courting procedure is just the same as you or I. We all have been through that ‘has the phone just rung?’ depression when expecting a call from an individual we are fascinated in. It does feel closely story like the way they end up together, but we all have a story like this just not in the press.

Players are brought up here all the time, the interesting one for me was Becker ‘B.B. Socrates’ they call him because he ‘tries to appear intellectual but is just an overgrown farmboy’, this is going to do not one thing for Becker’s ego. The rivalry with Becker seems more indispensable than that with Sampras – who would have thought?

Another of those indispensable times for Andre was a meeting with Mandela, a genuinely humbling experience for anyone. This times perfectly with the starting of his Charter school and I presume was a defining moment for him.

Overall, hey I got the book yesterday and I read 325 pages the initial day this will have to tell you all you need to know. I felt sorry for Andre with his childhood but towards the end I understood how his father in truth wanted the best for everyone. Andre is astoundingly influenced by any individual he trusts – guided more by his heart than his head, he appears to live life to please for much of the book which is gorgeous much the way a child acts. His introductory marriage is what everyone else wants to see but he is developing on another level through his interactions with his trainer Gil, the goalposts are always altering as he tries comprehends what he wants from life. His ‘hate’ of tennis formulates into an appreciation and respect.

When you read this book you will see parallels amidst what you go through in life with what a celebrity goes through but you go through it perhaps without the press. It is fantastically well written, so well written in fact that most will not credit Andre for the writing. This is what is says it is, an autobiography not just a tennis manual. Enjoy!

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