Open
The astounding novel Open authored by Andre Agassi, tells the life story of one of the best tennis players of his era. Although Andre was a tennis legend himself, he surprisingly never enjoyed it. Before Andre was born, his dad had decided that he was going to be a professional tennis player. Andre was forced to play for hours and hours everyday. When Andre was eighteen years old, he officially became a professional tennis player. This book was very well written because Andre shares so many details regarding his life, is able to define tennis in so many ways, and any player can relate to the tennis problems that he had to go through.
Open is a great book because Andre Agassi shares many personal things about his tennis journey. For someone to have once hated…
“Tennis is lonely. There is nowhere to hide when things go wrong. No dugout, no sideline, no neutral corner. It’s just you out there naked” (57). This quote may mean nothing to people who don’t play tennis, but for tennis players, it defines the way it feels on the tennis court. “Its no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and its all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. Its our choice.” This is one of Andre’s most meaningful quotes from the book. Almost everyone who reads the quote, can learn a lot about life. Andre may be writing about tennis, but there are so countless universal themes that apply to…