Standing on the shoulders of the giants -Īgassi’s professional tennis life talks more about his relationship with his personal trainer, Gil Reyes. And then he muses, was love for tennis and love for Andre, the same to his father? And that his father loved him as much as he loved tennis. And Mike Agassi, wanted his son to be the No.1 tennis player in the world.Īgassi says that though he feared his father, he always loved him. That he played tennis sheerly out of fear for his father. It’s too painful’, Mike Agassi telling his son Andre after 20 years of the long hard toil.
After last night (tennis match), you have nothing left to prove. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.”Īnd ends with, ’Quit, he says. This relationship starts with Agassi saying, “My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I’ll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I’ll have hit nearly one million balls. ‘I like people with contradictions, of course.’ says Agassi.Ī very strong father-son bond reflects the evolution of the tennis star’s life. He admits that he hated tennis with a dark, dark passion.Īnd yet, ‘He plays tennis not because he loves it, but he cannot live with defeat’.Ĭonnecting more at a personal level, reading Robin Sharma’s ‘The 5 AM Club’ consistently not before 9AM, seems too negligible a contrast in my life. “I slide to my knees and say : Please let this be over. When I re-read it, I also spotted a love-hate relationship that existed not only in his career but also with people and his own self too.Īnd what caught my attention is the display of his alternating emotion towards tennis like a constant reminder in the book. When I first read Open, what floated across was stark irony. Hitting a ball dead perfect - The only peace. The undying spirit of an ordinary man, who dusts off and gets up, blow after blow, is what makes ‘Open’, an autobiography by the tennis legend Andre Agassi, a memoir to celebrate the extraordinary. What you do when life throws everything but the kitchen sink at you.Ī journey that surfs through highs and lows lows, lows and more lows and a few highs up along the way. This book is about one man’s journey through life.Ī man - ever evolving and constantly searching for himself.Īnd it's just that he happened to play tennis. The headline will lead you to thinking that this is going to be a tragic romantic novel.
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