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<p>A stunning memoir by one of the world's most beloved athletes--a nuanced self-portrait, an intensely candid account of a remarkable life, and a thrilling inside view of the pro tennis tour.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p> <h3> The Barnes & Noble Review </h3> <p> Before reading a single page of Andre Agassi's autobiography, <i>Open,</i> I determined to evaluate it according to the standards established in a lovely little essay called How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart, by David Foster Wallace. Austin was a tennis star in the 1970s whose memoir Wallace, an exuberant observer of the game, agreed to review for a newspaper in 1994. He had high hopes, because on the court Austin was prodigious, beautiful, and inspiring -- a true artist who displayed a grace that for most of us remains abstract and immanent. But he was disappointed to find that her memoir was terrible: insipid, cliché-ridden, and almost completely lacking in insight, or even compound sentences. </p>