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Andre Agassi's Relationship With His Father

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Andre Agassi was one of the best tennis players in the world and one of the players who really has dominated the sport. In 2009 he wrote his autobiography Open in which we hear about his childhood, how his father immigrated to the USA and how he was forced to play tennis by his dad. We hear about many different relationships in this autobiography especially between Andre and his parents, between him and his uncle and how his grandmother affected the family life.
Andre is not very fond of his grandmother and describes her as" a nasty old woman" and the only reason she even was in this earth was to harass his father, " This seems to be the reason Grandma was put on earth, to harass my father".
Their father had a very hard childhood, with his …show more content…

But Andre isn't so fond for the sport tennis, "How can you be sick about not being home? Home is where the dragon lives. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, you have to play tennis", here he connects his own home to tennis, the one place a child should feel safe and happy.
His father is also putting some extra pressure on his son, "But my son, he adds - maybe they will make tennis an Olympic sport once again, and will win a gold medal", he has already planed the future for his own son and are already putting a lot of pressure on him for his to achieve what he didn't achieve.
Because of this Andre is feeling hatred towards his father and he starts to rebel against him, "The next ball from the dragon I hit as hard as I can, but high over the fence. I aim for the hawks and I don't bother pretending it's an accident", here he's rebelling towards his father in the one field that his dad loves the most, tennis.
It also seems like that the father is out living his dreams through his son. He couldn't play tennis in Iran then his son needs to play tennis now, he didn't won an Olympic gold medal then Andre will have to win one and that is also affecting their

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