LONDON (AP) \u2014 Andre Agassi, who famously wrote in his book \u201cOpen\u201d that he always hated tennis, is finally enjoying the sport.<\/p>\n
Agassi is in his second year as captain of Team World for the Laver Cup and he\u2019s been a source of positive energy on the squad\u2019s bench.<\/p>\n
Agassi said he appreciates the way he can help players think through matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always used to call that stress, not fun,\u201d Agassi said Saturday. \u201cNow it feels like a little bit more fun than stress. \u2026 I have the luxury of hindsight. I enjoy the idea of being in a hopefully contributive (role), an environment where I get to enjoy the game more than stress it. I\u2019ve spent a lot of years not enjoying it as much as I should have.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his 2009 autobiography, Agassi said he disliked the sport \u201cwith a dark and secret passion\u201d because of his overbearing father.<\/p>\n
The 56-year-old Agassi, an eight-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1, helped Team World win the Laver Cup last year.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s event is currently underway in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Andre Agassi, who famously wrote in his book \u201cOpen\u201d that he always hated tennis, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-862879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}