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Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Crown
June 2008
On Sale: June 10, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0307383296
EAN: 9780307383297
Hardcover
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Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a
man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented
number one world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and
whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting
fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals
sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to
let his racket do the talking. Until now. In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often
exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside
his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete
resolved from his earliest playing days never to let
anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while
this single-minded determination led to tennis domination,
success didn’t come without a price. The constant pressure
of competing on the world’s biggest stage—in the unblinking
eye of a media machine hungry for more than mere athletic
greatness—took its toll. Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about what it
was like to possess what he calls “the Gift.” He writes
about the personal trials he faced—including the death of a
longtime coach and confidant—and the struggles he gutted
his way through while being seemingly on top of the world.
Among the book’s most riveting scenes are an early
devastating loss to Stefan Edberg that led Pete to make a
monastic commitment to delivering on his natural talent; a
grueling, four-hour-plus match against Alex Corretja during
which Pete became seriously ill; fierce on-court battles
with rival and friend Andre Agassi; and the triumphant last
match of Pete’s career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open. In A Champion’s Mind, one of the most revered, successful,
and intensely private players in the history of tennis
offers an intimate look at the life of an elite athlete.
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