'Be comfortable in your own identity' - Agassi's advice to Raducanu
Tennis star Emma Raducanu is drawing inspiration from Andre Agassi's autobiography to navigate a challenging period in her career. Agassi, who also faced significant slumps, hopes his experiences can provide guidance to current athletes struggling with performance pressure.
Why it matters
It highlights the mental health and psychological challenges faced by elite athletes when dealing with injury and performance dips.
Figure caption, 'Don't judge the best of yourself by results' - Agassi's advice to Raducanu
As Emma Raducanu plots a route back to the pinnacle of tennis, the Briton has been taking inspiration from Andre Agassi's 2009 autobiography.
Five years have passed since Raducanu's remarkable US Open triumph, when at the age of 18 she became the first qualifier in the Open era to win a Grand Slam.
American Agassi was a teenage prodigy himself and later claimed the first of his eight major singles titles at Wimbledon in 1992 aged 22.
But between the peak years of his career, he had to overcome a challenging period when he went four years without a major and dropped to 141st in the world rankings.
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