![]() ![]() He also is now able to focus more time on philanthropy. ![]() He now operates a tennis school with over 38,000 participants nationwide. However, after retiring Andre was able to turn his life around. This wasn’t the end of Andre’s low point as his father’s abuse and his new fame got to be too much for him. Agassi makes us feel his panic as an undersized seven. Emmanuel constantly overworked his son into the ground and even took him down a dark road by giving him drugs like speed and crystal meth in hopes of enhancing Andre’s performance. Now, in his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by such conflicts. This led to Emmanuel pushing his son fair past his limits and into a sport he never actually wanted to participate in. His father, Emmanuel Agassi, was a former Olympic boxer and only wanted his son to follow in the same Olympic dreams. In his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by conflict. Starting with his childhood he always had a volatile relationship with his father. In Andre’s case he does so in a unique way and gives us a look into the negative aspect of fame. Going inside the mind of professional athletes through their autobiography is quite a well-known concept. Open: An Autobiography 's Relation To Sport Business ![]()
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