Andre Agassi

relationships are not always easy. You have grown up in a different generation and a different world than your parents did, and your grandparents did, and therefore it can be difficult to understand one another. This is a problem that the tennis player Andre Agassi in his childhood has experienced and writes about in this extract from his autobiography “Open” from 2009. He begins his autobiography with the lines “My father’s mother lives with us. She’s a nasty old lady from Tehran with a wart on the size

failures are due to factors outside of their control such as fate, circumstance, or luck. The subject of my case study, Andre Agassi, I believe has an external locus of control. Throughout his book Open: An Autobiography, Andre displays traits of an individual who has an external locus of control. Andre’s fathers disregard for his sons interests and needs led to choices that Andre felt he had no control over. In one instance, after winning a sportsmanship trophy he was quick to insult the trophy because

something to do with the time we are born in and our mentality along with our way of thinking. This may be the topic in the extract from Andre Agassi’s autobiography “Open” from 2009, where it focuses on the relationships between the generations. But why exactly are the characters from the different generations having such a hard time understanding each other? And why has Andre written this text? When analysing the text’s style of writing, it is interesting to look at the structure of it. The text has a

Open by Andre Agassi Through the eyes of an eight year old, Andre Agassi shares his private life and background of becoming a world famous tennis player, in his autobiography Open from 2009. Already from the beginning Andre Agassi narrates about the family’s more or less tense relationship to each other and how the tennis player’s career is affected of his social heritage. This is the three main themes Andre Agassi gets around in his story about his early life. First, Andre Agassi tells about the

The extract from Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open is about family expectations. When you ex-pect something particular from someone or something you are talking about expectations. Family expectations is, therefore when for example when your father has a certain expectation to you, about the fact that you have to live up to a certain demand from your family. In the extract from Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open we are aware of how there are some fami-ly expectations in his family. He says: when his

In Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open, Agassi provides an in-depth description of his childhood and the pressures that burdened him throughout his life. From an early age, Agassi was primed to become the best tennis player in the world. Agassi’s father, Mike, forced the sport of tennis upon him. Andre would be forced to hit thousands of balls every day. “My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I’ll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I’ll have hit nearly one million balls

has been in the limelight ever since she was 11 months old, she acted in movies since she was a teenager, modeled for Calvin Klein, and even graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in French Literature. Shields was married to Andre Agassi, a professional tennis player, but the two split inn 1999 the same year she met her current husband Chris Henchy, a television writer, with whom she has two daughters with. Diagnosis: Brooke was diagnosed with severe postpartum depression. Postpartum

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