![]() He begins by narrating the challenge that his life became at the hands of a maniacal father who was obsessed with making his son the best in the world, motivated mostly by the money and partly by his own unfulfilled ambitions. It is evident that this is a cathartic endeavour. Agassi is honest and forthright to the point where at times the reader feels uncomfortable for him, wondering if he is revealing too much of himself. Open is everything the name promises for it to be. We meet a balding man who has given everything to the game that has rewarded and consumed him in equal measure. ![]() Agassi has revealed what he had so far tried to conceal behind the denim shorts and the frost tipped mullet. This weary face is what is left of the showboating rebel with a game that burned tennis courts and egos for years on the tennis circuit. ![]() This Agassi does not match the Agassi the tennis world has known. This photograph sets the tone for the rest of the book. ![]() From the cover of Open, Andre Agassi’s haggard face stares blankly at the reader. ![]() Evidently, a lot of thought goes into the cover photograph of an autobiography, the ultimate act of putting oneself in front of the world to be dissected. ![]()
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