Andre Agassi

Andre Agassi is an American former professional tennis player, one of the greatest of all time and the first male player to win all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal. His candid, ghost-written-with-J.R. memoir Open — about the "hate" he felt for tennis, his rebellion, and his redemption — became a bestseller critics called the best sports memoir ever written.

Born in Las Vegas to an obsessive immigrant father, Agassi reigned in the 1990s, married Steffi Graf, and later built a celebrated charter school in Las Vegas. Open won the British Sports Book Award and was turned into a movie, and its brutal honesty made it a sports-writing landmark.