I asked my audience: "What is the best sports book you've ever read?" — and received more than 1,000 responses. Here are the Top 10 👇 1) Open, an autobiography by Andre Agassi. Everyone needs to read this, seriously.
Agassi hated tennis 'with a dark and secret passion' and also admitted to taking crystal meth in open and honest autobiography
Tennis NewsFriday, 14 July 2023 at 19:30
Andre Agassi stated that he had hated tennis and admitted to using methamphetamine in his honest autobiography.
Agassi is indeed one of the great legends of tennis. He won eight Grand Slam titles and held the world No. 1 ranking in 1995 and for the last time in 2003, totaling 101 weeks at the top of the ATP rankings.
In the list of Grand Slam winners, he is tied for seventh place with Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl, only surpassed by the Big Three - Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer - as well as Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl.
"I hate tennis with a dark and secret passion"
While he was one of the dominant tennis players in the mid-90s to the early 2000s, Agassi admitted in his candid autobiography that he had hated tennis at one point and even confessed to using methamphetamine during his career when he was at the top of the ATP tour.
“I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have,” he said in his 2009 book “Open: An Autobiography”.
“As if they’re coming out of someone else’s mouth, I hear these words: You know what? F*** it. Yeah. Let’s get high,” he said in his book.
“Slim dumps a small pile of powder on the coffee table. He cuts it, snorts it. He cuts it again. I snort some. I ease back on the couch and consider the Rubicon I’ve just crossed.”
In addition to his Grand Slam victories, the success at the ATP World Tour Championship in 1990 and the Olympic gold in 1996 means that he has achieved a Career Super Slam.
Agassi is the only male singles player to have accomplished this in the history of the sport, with Serena Williams and Steffi Graf as the two champions in the women's game.
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