Open: An Autobiography
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Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi

Why we picked it

Agassi's brutally honest narrative details early burnout, fierce rivalries, reinvention, and the long search for purpose beyond trophies and rankings.

Our review

Agassi’s brutally honest narrative details early burnout, rivalry, reinvention, and the search for purpose beyond trophies. Candid talk about pressure, injury, and self-doubt resonates with older teens navigating identity and expectations. Behind-the-scenes glimpses of Grand Slam finals keep sports buffs riveted. A masterclass in resilience, both on and off the court.

About this book

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. • "Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.” —Time
 
“Honest in a way that such books seldom are.” —The New York Times

 
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 first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent.

Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship 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.


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Andre Agassi