Open

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Andre Agassi recounts a tennis life shaped long before he could choose it. As a child, he endures relentless training and later an isolating Florida academy, where rebellion becomes part of the style that will distinguish him as a young professional. On tour, early promise collides with confusion, celebrity, and the punishing mental demands of a sport in which every weakness is exposed alone. Agassi follows his breakthroughs without smoothing over the crisis of confidence that nearly dismantles his career, or the relationships that help him rebuild it. Chronic spinal pain shadows the later years, even as his priorities shift toward personal responsibility and education advocacy. Open is a memoir about elite competition, but also about resisting an imposed identity and learning to claim a life beyond performance.

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