![]() ![]() After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. ![]() And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. We see him at thirteen, banished to a Florida tennis camp. Now, in his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by such conflicts.Īgassi makes us feel his panic as an undersized seven-year-old in Las Vegas, practicing all day under the obsessive gaze of his violent father. ![]() Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict that would define him. ![]()
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