Roddick breaks down Coaching Changes, Tennis Scheduling Dilemmas, & Usher on Freaking Roller Skates
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2024
- Dive into this week's episode with Andy Roddick and Jon Wertheim, where we tackle the hottest topics in tennis and beyond. We start with a quick-fire recap of weekend winners from Dallas to Abu Dhabi. Jon breaks down the buzz: a PIF investment in the ATP rankings, the intrigue of the 6 Kings Slam, and rumors of a Saudi Arabia event to start the season. The duo explores scheduling woes for top players with insights from Andy's past and a candid take on navigating coaching changes. Plus, Andy tackles the Super Bowl - the Chiefs' victory and Usher's roller-skating halftime show stealing the spotlight.
3:07 - Winner's from the Weekend
5:49 - Served Supporters Club Shout Outs!
7:49 - Jon Wertheim Joins the Show
8:54 - Andy has HUGE NEWS!
11:49 - Saudis Big Buy News
17:24 - Andy shares Inside Info
20:25 - Why Adding an Early Event is a Bad Idea
28:41 - Scheduling Strategy for Early Season
37:34 - Coaching Changes Early in Season
47:09 - Andy talks About Getting "Dumped"
53:27 - Modern Challenges for Coaching
1:05:37 - Jon's Valentine's Day Plans
1:08:22 - Usher on Freaking Roller Skates
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My favorite parts of this podcast are where Andy goes into his own experiences as a player. I don’t care if it’s a 20 minute long tangent, I’m always here for story time.
This podcast has managed to be entertaining even in a time of year where there is barely any tennis going on; top players are largely resting, the tournaments that are on are fairly small. Can’t wait to see what this pod does during this upcoming stretch of tennis from Indian Wells up to RG!
Finally, the man who produced the best post match interviews sharing his talents with us again. Love the pod! Keep them coming.
Man, you are HUGE in Brazil!!!! Doesn't matter if you have never played there before. You're number one now because you had a great career and have so much to share with your experience and knowledge. WE ARE TUNNED.
I almost couldn't believe it when I discovered this podcast last week. My favourite player who I've been missing ever since he retired...and now I get to watch him every week talking about tennis :) Freaking amazing!! If there's one person to do a tennis podcast, it's you Andy! Greetings from Austria
He’ll retire from podcasting in his prime also. When the tough get going.. a rod runs. We’ll miss you soon like you missed the backhand volley vs fed
My favorite player, too! I got to see him a few times in Delray and even got a picture with him. A great guy!
@@wrench9103why are you like this? Also Roddick hardly retired in his prime.
Having been a long time tennis fan, this is now by far, my favorite pod, sports related or not. Andy is great to listen to and Jon is a great partner for this type of content. Love when they pull the curtain back for a behind the scenes of scheduling, coaching changes or whatever.
Andy is so entertaining and so knowledgeable in his perspectives, the time flies by. Happy for him that others are enjoying him as well. Great work to all involved.
Brazil ftw haha keep on going, amazing work! Here in Brazil we have some tennis podcasts, but none of them are hosted by a former number 1 who is engaged at the tennis scenario as Andy Roddick. You bring a lot to the table. Also, Andy's accid humor is just the kind of humor that we enjoy haha.
Andy is a natural, he's great at this
Loving this Podcast. Appreciate hearing the more intricate details of tennis through Andy's point of view. Love Wertheim too! New favorite podcast!
Let’s all be real here. We’re all waiting for Roddick and Gill Gross to do a show together. Basically a “Fedal” of tennis podcasting 🥲
Yes please!
Yes this is what we want and need 🙂
I'd love that
Yes please!
No
Looking better and better. And Andy's wit and humor win the day every time. One of the best entertainers in the tennis world. So happy you're doing this!
Side note: Someone absolutely needs to get it to Joe Biden's team to make Monday after Super Bowl a national holiday and to kill daylight savings time. No joke.
Love this! great to see the tennis nerd in Andy bubble to the surface and enlighten us fans. Keep drilling deep into topics (scheduling, rankings/sport investment, etc.), it's why we're here!
Its so aweso.e to have a tennis podcast woth a real pro. And specially with Andy and his quick response wit mouth and brain. Im hooked!!!
This podcast is exactly what my life needed.
Hi Andy, always watched you play growing up, thanks for the show! __b
Andy, you're the best. Well done with this podcast
Andy on the mic, how fun this is to listen to. He is equally informed as he is funny. And a great co-host. Full package on this show. Subscribed!
Great content Andy, keep it fresh and real.
Kudos from an Aussie in the wine country of the Czech Republic.
Would really appreciate a discussion on Doping in tennis on the Podcast. This is a topic that mostly no one is touching. Hve done sme research and found that the tennis system has many loopholes in it.
""You know what? Gimme the fucking skates" - I died.
Greets from Serbia!
Andy while I do like Jon Wertheim, he already has his own tennis podcast. We know what he thinks. And he’s a journalist. I want to hear from YOU. Andy frigging Roddick. The legend. Keep this YOU centric.
Loving this podcast, just what we needed in tennis!! Keep it going Andy! Saludos desde España
So interesting to hear firsthand about the player/coach dynamic. Hadn’t really realized just how many hours you spend together.
There are so many parallels between pro-tennis and pro-opera. Singers pay (hire) their coaches, too. The mentor/mentee dynamics are similar. Stability is crucial for continuous development.
Thanks for another great episode!! It was so interesting hearing Andy's personal experiences with coaches and how closely a coach is tied into the player.
I never realised how often you would spend time with your coach... flying everywhere and going to hotels really forces the whole team to gel well and Andy made me realise that.
We don't get the Tennis Channel here in Canada, so I hope the podcast will still be on RUclips.
It will be!
I am loving the podcast. Tennis is the only sport I follow, but I've never played. Enjoying the in-depth conversations about the best sport there is! One request, Andy, please consistently speak into the mic. The sound is getting better, but it's difficult to hear sometimes. Thank you for the podcast!
I think if we're being honest your usher take was my favorite part of the episode. Keep the good stuff coming and congrats on tennis channel.
Some fascinating insights into the parts of tennis that we fans don't usually get to see.
Portugal loves Served! :D
Happy for you guys! See Andy? Told you before the fact that you had the best tennis podcast around. Looking forward to more!
Happy for the good news, but relieved that doesn't mean that we lose the YT access to it, esp those of us outside of the US. Also hope tennis channel isn't expecting crazy production cause some of the appeal of this is exactly that, it makes it informal and seems like you're just chatting with your friends, just that these friends are insanely successful in a pro sport in one of it's golden eras.
Saw Andy asking about changing racquets, hope a bit is mentioned next episode, and a bit of a backstory on the gear he's used so far and, if possible, why Andy is looking for a change.
Keep up the great work and hope you get a little more than 13 USD for post its!
really hoping we're getting a Served/Monday Match Analysis collab one of these days
Great podcast! Love your candor. Keep up the great work. See ya on Tennis Channel. BTW, one of my all time favorite press conferences was when you described Djokovic's many ailments at the 2008 US Open! So funny!
Great show! In order for the timestamps to pop up, you have to have 00:00 in the list
Great show! Again.
This podcast needs to be twice as long… at least!
Andy showing the highest professional character in these convos
Amazing pod!
im starting to wait for this show to come out
You know I bought the same racket hoping to serve like you long ago lol. 😂😂😂😂
I'm so excited to have discovered this podcast just what I needed.❤🎉
Hey Andy love your podcast and your insights into the nuts and bolts of the sport. Recommendation: You can bookmark different topics on the video timeline so we can jump from one to another, that would be great. Greetings from Athens, Greece
Timestamps in the description!
Can we still watch your podcast on YT? Or is it all moving to TC?
It will always be available here!
@@ServedPodcastAwesome! Thank you! ☺️
I just finished listening to the first 3 episodes - excellent content. You're filling the void created by the demise of the Tennis Week and Inside Tennis magazines. Only 1 criticism - during the Saudi discussion in the 1st episode you kept referring to the WTA's controversy with China affecting the staging of the year end tournament, without actually explaining the basics of the controversy and the consequences (i.e., you assumed the audience knew all the details). I would be interested to hear a further explanation about what exactly occurred/is occurring, because last year's tournament was disastrous. Otherwise, keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to future episodes, as well as the T2 debut.
Agreed. Lay that foundation, even if basic and quick.
Waitin' for Andy to start coaching Rune.
I like the whiteboard need me to send u a new marker? loving the show andy ;)
Will you keep posting on spotify and or youtube?
The best podcast ever
Well and truly
This is fantastic content. Can I suggest for these video versions higher quality video? It may not seem important for what is really an audio format, but if you're going to have video, a better camera / quality would be worthwhile. At the moment it's a little incongruous with what is otherwise a great podcast with lots of potential.
Davis Cup should only be played like every 2 or 3 years. Its too much to have the players play that on top of every other commitment. Plus, nobody really cares much about it anymore
Ámsterdam loves Served
3 episodes in, I'm very much enjoying the candor, Andy. Please keep that up. I'd much rather you say "no comment" or "I'm not at liberty to discuss" than hear you give an intentionally politically correct take on something. Also, you're in a unique position among the tennis podcasters / youtubers in that you played the game at the highest level with great success AND are contemporaries with the last TWO great generations of men's tennis -- the tail end of the Sampras / Agassi / Courier era, and the Roger / Rafa / Novak era. So you can actually describe in detail what these guys are like inside the ropes and inside the locker room. Hopefully you'll share a lot of that in the coming podcasts. Here are some suggestions for future podcasts:
Desired Guests (but only if he/she is willing to speak their mind and share some insights; no fluff interviews please):
1. Pete Sampras
2. Serena Williams (I've heard you say she's one of your best friends)
3. Andre Agassi
4. Jim Courier
5. Ivan Lendl
6. Brad Gilbert (he's got the midas touch; would love to hear the behind the scenes details of your player/coach relationship)
7. Monica Seles (one of the best and grittiest, and not talked about enough these days for what a great player she was)
8. Rick Macci (your childhood coach)
9. Ben Shelton (perhaps the next great face of American tennis on the men's side)
Desired Topics:
1. Andy Roddick's path in junior tennis (please don't be general; give us tremendous specificity -- training schedule, tournament schedule as a junior, did you entertain the idea of playing in college and if not, why not?, at what age did you truly believe you'd become good enough to be a high level professional tennis player, and what was your level of success in junior tennis when you first had this belief)
2. Can the minimum required skillset of a top 100 ATP tour player be quantified? I know there are a lot of ways to get it done on the tennis court, but for example, if you don't have a first serve of at least say 110+ mph, you probably wouldn't make the top 100 these days. So you could say that for starters, you MUST have a first serve of at least 110mph. So it's not hard to imagine that there are other minimum requirements. So what's the minimum forehand pace? Minimum backhand pace? Minimum RPMs on the groundstrokes? Etc.
3. In your playing days, off the court, was it obvious to you which players had the "right stuff" (mentally and emotionally) to win slams, and which players didn't? And if it was obvious, what exactly were the signs of the "right stuff"?
4. Why are you still the last American man to win a grand slam? Still?
5. Take use through a player's schedule during a tournament week. How much and how often are you practicing, on match days and on off days? Are you practicing on-site or intentionally off-site? Does your sleep schedule vary (obviously night matches can affect it, but maybe you try to go to bed late and wake up late)? Room service or restaurants? Do you have any fun outside of the tournament and outside of obligations? And are you managing your own schedule or is someone telling you what to do, and when?
6. Should the ATP tour prioritize a larger number of players being able to make a reasonably comfortable living? And if so, how would they do this? It seems like a good idea to me if the top say 400-500 players in the world could make a good living, but from what I hear, that is NOT the current reality. It's maybe only the top 100-150, if that. I could be wrong. Certainly in all the top team sports, there are hundreds of guys (in each sport) making millions EVERY SEASON, and that's a season that is shorter than the ATP season, which is about 11 months long.
7. Has the slowing down of the Wimbledon grass and the speeding up of the French clay made it easier for the best baseliners in the game today to win a lot more majors than was possible, say, pre-2000? And thus you have 3 guys all winning 20+ majors, something that was unthinkable 20 years ago. Sampras had an insane game, probably the best of all time thru the end of his era, yet he had very few good chances at the French. Lendl had a few close calls at Wimbledon, but never got it done there. I'm inclined to think if the French clay was faster in Sampras' era, he could have and would have won it at least once. And had the Wimbledon grass been a bit slower and smoother, I've got to believe Lendl would've prevailed there at least once.
8. How far can hard work take you in tennis, or do you need to be born with elite level talent (fast arm for cranking the Roddick serve, for instance).
Now we all know the secret behind Sinner’s new serve is Roddick’s technique~ Served, where you can also learn to serve and win a Grandslam~
Hi Andy, big fan! Don’t know if you’ll address this but you mentioned you had to work around a shoulder injury with your forehand in 2006. A lot of people say your forehand changed as your career progressed. Was there a conscious decision to strive for consistency or was it a physical limitation? Combination of both?
ATP: Tiafoe & Rune
WTA: Pegula & Sakkari
The struggle is real. Who will be next... #coachwatch
Can we call it a “pod-prosal”? 😉😉😉
I'm only a few minutes in & I can tell Andy is still on a high from watching Usher on skates. Find someone in your life to look at you in awe the way Andy looks at Usher on skates...
Is Austin your hometown? I thought you moved to NC.
Can you talk about Kaia Kanepi and other players who are playing without coaches? She’s been playing a few years without a coach. Do most players before they retire play without a coach? Isn’t there one ATP player that also juggles 3 coaches and they each take turns?
Thanks
I want andy to discuss why he changed his forehand that used to vaporize balls into a heavy topspin shot back in 2007. A friend of his family said that andys brother John also had a forehand that would light the ball on fire
Actually Andy im very curious on your thoughts about Dominic Thiem considering your shoulder injury and his wrist issues and post injury mindsets. The valentines question was brilliant though lmao!
Still watching this episode, but how do we become a Served supporter?
Link in the description of this video!
What happened to his shoulder? Did Rod get injured? His forehand lost power after 2004, but revived it in dubai 08 and miami 2010 and 2012 for a few matches.
This is great. The stuff about the coaching was particularly interesting. As a Fed fan, I was a very happy man when you parted with Gilbert.
Andy - Lets talk about doping... get right into the nitty gritty... how prevalent do you think it is in the game in general??? Not naming anyone specifically...
ANDY! Look at your audience!
Fingers crossed the influx of huge (yuge even?) TC money will allow you to splurge on a new whiteboard eraser 😂
Shoutout to big red, will always root for him as a birds fan
Re: schedule issues. Simple: masters 1000s are no longer mandatory. Problem solved
Roddick shamelessly flexes on the Europeans: “yeah if I wanna talk about NFL on my tennis podcast, I will.” And that he did.
That was a very good Super Bowl though, just wish my Bills could’ve been there instead…
You never played a pro tournament in Brazil but you played Juniors there, one week before going to Miami with a WC! You beat a great friend of mine in the Round 1 of the tournament (Gerdau Cup). Interesting fact: you beat him 1 and 2. He spent two years looking at Steve G Tennis results seeing if someone ele had lost to you in an uglier way. He was not successful. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Um, er, kinda cringing at the blowback to your twitter presence. So may I be an a-hole here? Love your comments on professional tennis. Given an estimated 8 billion people on our planet, I'll say what probably a gazillion people think - sports is the celebration of human life, and tennis is the best of sports. I'm not going to say "stay in your lane" but consider just focusing your podcast on tennis. Don't want to have to skip through your comments on other sports you may follow. Maybe your sponsors pay you to comment on other sports, but how much money do you need? And this is where your producer ignores or blocks me. Hopefully not.