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　　Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of

professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a

remarkable life.

Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left

the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and

demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first

of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the

game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching

autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused,

unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to

resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his

uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke

Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in

haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his

celebrated career.

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　　Andre Agassi played tennis professionally from 1986 to

2006. Often ranked number one, he captured eight Grand Slam singles

championships. Founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation,

he has raised more than $85 million for the Andre Agassi College

Preparatory Academy for underprivileged children in Las Vegas,

where he lives with his wife, Stefanie Graf, and their two

children.

　　Visit the author's website: www.agassifoundation.org

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在你前进的道路上，生活会剥夺你几乎所有的家产，你要做的就是避开障碍。如果你因它们而止步或者分心，你就没有做好分内事，而这一点将使你懊悔不已。

“安德烈，”他说，“你得以网球为食，以网球为水，以网球为床，这是你成为世界第一的唯一方法。”

在29年的网球生涯中，我懂得了一点：在你前进的道路上，生活会剥夺你几乎所有的家当，你要做的就是避开障碍。如果你因它们而止步或者分心，你就没有做好自己的分内事，而这一点将使你懊悔不已。这种懊悔会比背痛更让你无法前行。

网球就是对不同程度的进攻性的演绎。

网球是一项自言自语的运动，任何其他运动员都不会像网球运动员这样自言自语。棒球投球手、高尔夫球手、足球守门员，当然也会自己小声嘟囔，但是网球运动员都是自己提问然后回答。在比赛最激烈的时刻，网球运动员看起来就像公共广场上的疯子，大声叫嚷、诅咒谩骂，不断与自我进行着辩论。为什么？因为网球这种运动太孤独了，只有拳击手才能理解网球运动员的孤独。就算是拳击手，也有助手和经纪人陪伴着，他们甚至还可以将拳击场上的对手视作某种意义的伙伴，和他们扭斗、对他们咕哝。然而在网球比赛中，你和对手永远是面对面的厮杀，却永远不会碰触到对方或是跟对方或是其他人交谈。网球规则禁止网球运动员在比赛时与人交谈，甚至与教练交谈都不行。

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水在我耳边哗哗地响，就像两万名球迷的呐喊声。我回想起那些特别的胜利——那些球迷不会记得的，但却仍会令我难以入眠的胜利——在巴黎对阵斯奎拉里、在纽约与布莱克鏖战、在澳大利亚与皮特一争高下。我珍惜其中的分分秒秒，当然也会回想起一些失败，想到失望时我摇摇头。我告诉自己，今晚不过是场考试而已，而且考的是我已经学了29年的东西。不论发生什么，我至少已经经历过一次。或是身体上的测试，或是精神上的考验，没有什么新鲜的。

让这一切结束吧。

我不想就这样结束。

我开始大声哭泣，斜靠在淋浴间的墙上，让眼泪尽情流淌。

I'll hug my father again before I embrace Wimbledon

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  A New York Times Notable Book and a Forbes, San Francisco

Chronicle, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year

  “Agassi may have just penned one of the best sports

autobiographies of all time. Check—it’s one of the better memoirs

out there, period. . . . An unvarnished, at times inspiring story

[told] in an arresting, muscular style. . . . Agassi’s memoir is

just as entrancing as his tennis game.”—Time

   “Fascinating. . . . Inspiring. . . . Open describes

Agassi’s personal odyssey with brio and unvarnished candor. . . .

[Agassi’s] career-comeback tale is inspiring but even more so is

another Open storyline. It could be called: The punk grows up. . .

. Countless athletes start charitable foundations, but frequently

the organizations are just tax shelters or PR stunts. For Agassi

helping others has instead become his life’s calling. . . . Open is

a superb memoir, but it hardly closes the books on an extraordinary

life.”

  —The Wall Street Journal

  “Honest in a way that such books seldom are. . . . An

uncommonly well-written sports memoir. . . . Bracingly devoid of

triumphalist homily, Agassi’s is one of the most passionately

anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.”

  —The New York Times

   “Not your typical jock-autobio fare. This literate and

absorbing book is, as the title baldly states, Agassi’s

confessional, a wrenching chronicle of his lifelong search for

identity and serenity, on and off the court.”

  —Los Angeles Times

  “The writing here is exceptional. It is can’t-put-down

good.”

  —Sports Illustrated

   “An honest, substantive, insightful autobiography. . .

. The bulk of this extraordinary book vividly recounts a lost

childhood, a Dickensian adolescence, and a chaotic struggle in

adulthood to establish an identity. . . . While not without

excitement, Agassi’s comeback to No. 1 is less uplifting than his

sheer survival, his emotional resilience, and his good humor in the

face of the luckless cards he was often dealt.”

  —The Washington Post

   “The most revealing, literate, and toes-stompingly

honest sports autobiography in history”

  —Rick Reilly, ESPN

   “Much more than a drug confession—Agassi weaves a

fascinating tale of professional tennis and personal adversity. . .

. His tale shows that success is measured both on and off the

court.”

  —New York Post

   “Not only has Agassi bared his soul like few

professional athletes ever have, he’s done it with a flair and

force that most professional writers can’t even pull off.”

  —Entertainment Weekly

   “[A] heartfelt memoir . . . Agassi’s style is open,

all right, and his book, like so many of his tennis games, is a

clear winner.”

  —O, The Oprah Magazine

   “Hard-won self-knowledge irradiates almost every page

of Open. . . . Not just a first-rate sports memoir but a genuine

bildungsroman, darkly funny yet also anguished and soulful. It

confirms what Agassi’s admirers sensed from the outset, that this

showboat . . . was not clamoring for attention but rather

conducting a struggle to wrest some semblance of selfhood from the

sport that threatened to devour him.”

  —The New York Times Book Review

   “A riveting and reflective memoir by a man who rose to

the top of his sport—despite hating it.”

  —San Francisco Chronicle

   “Celebrity tell-alls have rarely been this honest and

this interesting.”

  —Baltimore Sun

 “A vivid portrait of the internal battle faced in some

measure by every athlete.”

  —Bloomberg News

 “Articulate. . . . Expertly rendered.”

  —The Morning News (Boston)

  “Refreshingly candid. . . . This lively, revealing, and

entertaining book is certain to roil the tennis world and make a

big splash beyond.”

  —Publishers Weekly

书籍介绍

Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.

Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career.