Aiming to duplicate the habits of top tennis players takes more than physical training alone. It also means becoming familiar with the ‘success modelling’ process of the recently emerging field of sports psychology, and reading several texts that Barbara Ehrenreich highlights for particular criticism. Sport, tennis in particular, has spawned some timeless classics (at least within the tennis playing world) that predate many self help books, from the early 70s Buddhist approach to tennis, Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis through to the Machiavellian classic Win Ugly by Brad Gilbert.
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The moodiness of a long-suffering tennis player - A review of Andre Agassi autobiog 'Open'
In spite of the headline-seeking, drug-taking confessions, Andre Agassi’s autobiography offers a fascinating insight into the inner life of a sporting great.
When I think of Andre Agassi, three things come to mind. First, there was his brash, outlandish and ‘inappropriate’ fashion sense. Second, there was his ability to ‘counter-punch’ and to return and neutralise the 135mph-plus serves that were threatening to dominate tennis in the 1990s. And third, there was his incredible revival from 141 in the world rankings in 1997 to world number one just two years later.
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