Andre Agassi Open review

I just finished this book a couple of days ago. It was really good, I'd strongly recommend it to all tennis fans. There's a lot of information about the life on tour, Andre's, relationship with past players, and even a little bit on Roger, Jame Blake, and Nadal. But with that said there's also quiet a bit of negativity from Andre. After reading it you might think of him as a bitter, selfish, prick rather than the mature, insightful, ex-rebel that he was portrayed to be, prior to the release of his book.

Andre's book, is more centered around his personal life, than tennis. Towards the end, he talks more about his family and less about his matches, even if they were important ones. He doesn't hesitate to critisize his peers. He's particularly down on Sampras, Chang, Becker, Muster, and Nick Bolletelli and his basis for disliking them is over small, petty things, like Muster ruffling Andre's hair at the end of a match, or Chang thanking God for his victory.

Even if you read the book, you won't be able to get inside of Andre's head. Some of his decisions just don't make much sense. I really don't know why he chose to marry Brooke Sheilds. Their relationship was going through a hard time when he proposed and he later admitted that he didn't want to go through with marrying her. So then why didn't he just break off their engagement?

Early in the book Andre, talks about meeting his fitness trainer Gil Reyes, during the fall of 1989. At the time, Gil was in charge of training young athletes, at a local college fitness center. Andre, had recently lost a tough five set match to a clay courter named Alberto Mancini and wanted Gil's help to improve his stamina. They hit it off, right away and before long, Andre, wanted Gil to quit his job and work full time for him on the road, as his personal trainer. Gil agrees, quits his job but he leaves his family for 16 years to go work with Andre! At the time Gil, had young children, one of whom is less than 7 years old. Yet, he seems to just disregard it and left his wife to take care of their kids. I thought this was very strange and I wish Andre, had given a better explanation as to why Gil agreed to do this.

Overall this is a good book, it has many surprises and after reading it, you should have a good idea who the real Andre Agassi is.