Agassi’s mind is “forcibly spinning” into the past, as if it were a whirling tennis ball. Then, mid-showdown at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Mr. “This will no longer be tennis, but a raw test of wills,” the book says with gladiatorial bravado. Agassi’s last tournament, and with a you-are-there tour of the weary champ’s psyche. It begins with the 2006 United States Open, Mr. Moehringer’s narrative skills, “Open” is cleverly bookended by two all-important tennis matches. Given the anticlimactic nature of these revelations, what exactly keeps “Open” going? Somebody on the memoir team has great gifts for heart-tugging drama. Agassi’s life have been prompted by episodes of “60 Minutes” (one of which inspired him to open a charter school for at-risk children) and by friends’ predictions about which women he would meet, court and marry. The biggest extracurricular events in Mr.

Agassi’s curiosity does not extend far beyond tennis, more tennis, the misery of tennis, the way sportswriters misunderstand tennis and the irritating celebrity that tennis stardom confers. As described in “Open” it is lively but narrow, since Mr. Moehringer’s name on the book, and that Mr. Agassi, he uses his writing partner in the same way he uses his tennis support staff: as talented individuals in a universe where he, Mr.

Moehringer slips into telling someone else’s story is both consummate and spooky.

Inevitably one wonders which of them actually wrote “it’s the main reason for my pigeon-toed walk” about Mr. Agassi’s much-analyzed, follicularly challenged head. Moehringer’s tales of being a boy in a barroom now magically finds its way onto the tennis court and into Mr. Moehringer, who wrote “The Tender Bar,” a shapely and expert memoir of his own. But the writing of this autobiography was a team sport. Andre Agassi often says in “Open” that tennis is a lonely game.

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