Written in Vegas, spoken in Mumbai: When Amruta Fadnavis quoted tennis ace Andre Agassi
The autobiography of Andre Agassi is one of the world’s favourite sports books.
By Akshay Sawai, ET Bureau |
Agencies
What is written in Las Vegas, floats down to Mumbai. The autobiography of Andre Agassi, the former tennis showman from Las Vegas, is one of the world’s favourite sports books.
Amruta Fadnavis, organising chairperson of a women’s tennis tournament in Mumbai, quoted from it during her address at the launch of the event recently. “I remember the lines of Andre Agassi, when he beautifully put in his words something very unique about the game of tennis,” Fadnavis said.
He said, ‘Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love. The basic elements of tennis are of everyday existence, because every match is like a miniature life’.” The word ‘selfie’ was absent from Agassi’s dictionary though.
The longlist for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday.
This year’s list of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Baroness Lola Young (Chair); literary critic, Lila Azam Zanganeh; Man Booker Prize shortlisted novelist, Sarah Hall; artist, Tom Phillips and travel writer, Colin Thubron.
The list was chosen from 144 submissions and includes works by author Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, and George Saunders among others.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction was first awarded in 1969. The award is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK.
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Amruta Fadnavis, organising chairperson of a women’s tennis tournament in Mumbai, quoted from it during her address at the launch of the event recently. “I remember the lines of Andre Agassi, when he beautifully put in his words something very unique about the game of tennis,” Fadnavis said.
He said, ‘Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love. The basic elements of tennis are of everyday existence, because every match is like a miniature life’.” The word ‘selfie’ was absent from Agassi’s dictionary though.
This year’s list of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Baroness Lola Young (Chair); literary critic, Lila Azam Zanganeh; Man Booker Prize shortlisted novelist, Sarah Hall; artist, Tom Phillips and travel writer, Colin Thubron.
The list was chosen from 144 submissions and includes works by author Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, and George Saunders among others.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction was first awarded in 1969. The award is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK.
Here are the 13 novels that have made it to this year's longlist:
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