I said it before and I’ll say it again, Served with Andy is the BEST tennis podcast/channel. To listen one of the best tennis player analyze and explain what the game/match was about is pure pleasure. I even watch some other international tennis channels and they quote Andy constantly and refer to his analysis.
Roddick is the best character for sure i loved him as player and i like him so much as a podcaster he is good dude. Do your job man. Salute from Serbia
@@ivanambreus3021 at the olympics anygold is the same so i understand his point. But he also said that gold is super clutch and made novak undisputed GOAT
Andy: Thank you for yet another epiphany moment. Highlighting the fact that players need to achieve greatness by acknowledging who they are and their personality types. There are many different paths to greatness. As a dad coach to my sons, my two boys cannot be further apart in terms of personality and I've had to adjust my approach and delivery very differently. But I need to seek to amplify the good parts/strengths of their personalities instead of coaching out the negative parts. By amplifying their good traits, this should diminish the negative ones naturally. Thanks so much for this.
I've been saying this for a long time now: Sinner was a junior giant slalom champion at the age of 7. His movements are those of a slalom skier. Sinner plays skitennis.
That's so weird I thought the same thing and I've never been skiing. That balance and gracefulness when he's going side to side reminds me of a skier getting in and out of the gates. I told one of my friends that the other day and then I recalled Djokovic was/ is a skier and Roger being Swiss has to be. It's crazy how that seemingly unlike sport as a lot of transfer skills to tennis.
Regarding Fritz Sinner: I do match analysis of full matches by watching the game at 50% speed and noting every ball that is hit, where it landed, what type of ball was hit and what might the tactical patterns have been. In addition, I note counter attacks that may have worked better. Sinner was directing balls in such a way as to open the entire court to his forehand by reversing his position immediately after any backhand shot. Fritz should have attacked deeper to his feet with a more aggressively shaped ball. His shots were generally flat landing around the service line right in Sinner's strike zone. Sinner was also so fast on the bounce that he was able to consistently rob time especially when redirecting the rally.
I noticed Sinner's serve improved a lot which makes a big difference . The guy is super fast although he does not get enough credit for that. Overall Sinner is most consistent ball striker forehand and backhand. My only concern about Sinner is if he body will endure the stress over time to allow him to win more than 15 Grand Slams. The same applies to Alcaraz with such aggressive style.
i love those comments how it actualy looks live compare to tv, as also technical parts like movement etc. The best podcast for inside content of proffesional tenis.
I find a decent way to describe Sinner is Berdych's powerful clean shots with many of Djokovic's skills. That's an effing deadly combination as we can see from his performance and ranking.
Two Week Masters have been bad for the schedule, and for fans. It means players are in tournament mode for longer, with less breaks, and good matches are more thinly spread, depleting the on site and tv viewing experience.
About Taylor and the pressure of having an American player winning a Slam again. It was so evident during the ceremony that the pressure generated by this was on him during the match, saying to be sorry for not winning and to try again next year. This is something SO bad for players... it's the kind of pressure that hit Novak when he lost to Danil for the Grand Slam
Andy is the boss! Kim is a queen boss! Two legends. So happy to have this place with quality and deep conversations that are so knowledgeable, and well balanced between WTA/ATP across all the topics on and off the court. Keep it up!
Regarding the athletes schedules, I think they can have and organize as many tournaments as they want. The balance needs to be in the less mandatory events , or a different way to reach mandatory point events, that way athletes have more flexibility to schedule their year based on their objectives, achievements, injuries… etc ..
I feel pretty good about my picks on the men's side. I picked Sinner for the Aussie and US Open, and Alcaraz for Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Here' s to a repeat next year and to the changing of the guard in men's tennis! Love the show. Please bring Kim back more often. I miss her in the game.🎉♥🎾🎾🎾🎾
On Raducanu she's said repeatedly that she's not going to play a full tournament schedule. In effect she's a part timer. In juniors it was due to physical frailty. Her dad seems to have too much influence - a common tennis issue.
In junior, she couldn't even if she wanted to because she was going to school full time... So, her tennis schedule was limited & had to balance around her regular school schedule...
@Served with Andy Roddick Just a suggestion to allow every player to plan their own schedule what tournament they want to participate and take ownership instead of ATP/WTA forcing mandatory. That way the player can't complain much. Have the players submit their tournament schedule beginning of the season and unless unforeseen medical/injury circumstances, they can pull out of tournaments...
I first saw Andy Roddick from the coverage of the US Clay Court championships at the Westside Tennis Club in Houston, TX in 2001. Back then they had Jan-Michael Gambil's bare chest on all the TV ads and practice footage. JMG was 1st seed, but Andy won the tourney. This particular mic really works well with Andy's voice. sorry, I'm a recording nerd.
Would a recap focusing on things worth mentioning for each and every day of the 3 week tournament be interesting? Definitely curious for next weeks podcasts. Keep it up . Love it always
Most informed , interesting, insightful tennis podcast. My podcast highlight. Also totally agree with Andy re tennis schedule. It’s crazy. The wrap weeks sounds like a brilliant idea. Andy for tennis president ! ( if there was such a thing )
I take my heart for Jessica considering she does not have a powerful serve and being a slow mover. Consistency and mental strength are her best qualities.
I honestly feel bad for Rybakina, firstly because she's not the kind who likes overexposing at all, secondly because all these conjectures (if true) might undermine her best quality on court: mentality, also off-court of course. It's excellent the fact she's chronically offline, she thinks better without internet constant anxiety crisis.
Mr. Roddick and Mrs. Clijsters, I’ll comment on the Raducanu segment. A lot of people including you are too pressed about Raducanu playing qualifiers for events. I’ll first cite the most recent cases in Cincinnati and Toronto. For Toronto which she was scheduled to play in, the turnover from DC to Toronto was very quick so no real time for her to acclimatize to the conditions. Then we went to Cincinnati, she didn’t make the initial cutoff for them ( rank 94, cutoff 72), and by the time she was in DC quarters, no withdrawals had happened. It wasn’t until a few days before the Cincinnati qualifiers that mass withdrawals happened. Then we go back to the case of the French Open where she withdrew from the qualifiers she said it was to set up her grass swing and it paid off. Back to her US Open preparation if the problem was a lack of match play I believe she should have possibly played in Cleveland or Monterrey the week before the US Open.
Great to see the great Kim Clijsters back on the show. However I am surprised you did not address the elephant in the room. You don’t usually shy away from controversy. I’m disappointed to say the least. That Nick Kyrios can share major network coverage on WTA players while continuing to abuse them and contributing to some of the most vulgar, degrading and offensive content about female tennis players is reprehensible and incomprehensible in this day and age.
Andy always on point with the episodes!!! Thanks for including us into your world and keeping us posted. I actually emailed your team recently with something I think you'll be excited about-would love to hear your thoughts! Keep up the great work on the podcast! 💪🎾 #UnbrokenRTR
Andy, I hope you did a little networking while you were at the Open. So many potential interviewees and no doubt the trip inspired many potential topics and ideas. Ben Stiller and his wife, Christine Taylor, are massive tennis fans who know a great deal about the sport. Christine once interviewed Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer of Bush, and they nerded out together on her podcast. Gavin was also a junior tennis player once upon a time and has a strong friendship with Roger Federer. We all know Roger is the biggest fish for you and having Wilson as a sponsor of the pod works in your favour. I can't imagine too many players, coaches, tennis fan celebrities, chair umpires or tournament directors who would reject an interview on Served, given the right scheduling for them.
Let's declare it. Andy Roddick is a Prophet. After all he gave us with his glorious career now we get this ultra-sharp mind looking into his crystal ball and making it reality. Sure the men's draw wasn't all hit-parade, but who cares. Women's finalists and the winner right. Wow. He might have his wishes and belief little entangled and warped with US men, but he found Pegula to make the breakthrough. Get the man a medal. Why does Andy Murray have the Sir in front of his name. Roddick deserves it more. They should bring the knighthood in US just for this. Well anyhow Now the trolls have nothing to play with. They are clueless in front of a Prophet. Un Prophet. Man out of this time. Magnificimo 🎉
Tommy Paul will be the one taking care of business. He's got talent, little ego, he is calm, he knows what happens when you don't work hard, now, he works hard.
If Elena Rybakina doesn't step up, Saba will win more majors that we could even imagine. Don't forget how Rybakina destroyed her in Brisbane Final this year. Ryba's peak is way more higher than Saba's.
Nothing against Coco Gauff, she's a great player, but Iga and Sabalenka aren't much older than her, and don't look like dropping off, then who knows who the next generation of players are. At present she doesn't look like she can surpass them and become the dominant player people thought she would become when she came on the scene so young.
The issue with Sabalenca is that the “ play to your strengths…” might make her a one dimensional player- those players do not win grand slams in all surfaces. Others will exploit her weaknesses. Think like, Wawrinka, Isner, Muguruza, etc.
I do take notice that Sabelenka did not likely treat her ex well. Possibly leaving him and had another beau already. No man would come to Miami to watch her play (he was a well known Soccer coach and league leader) then jump to his death. Her rxn? She was practicing hours later being videoed. Why is no one delving into this
@@nancyp7019 hmm I doubt it. It was ruled by the detectives as a suicide. That means whatever but likely not found to be a mistaken fumble as he was a professional soccer player
How do you know that she did not treat him well? It looked to me more likely that he was a washed up hockey player who was riding her fame. Maybe she broke up with him because he was a drunk and using her.
Did you ever watch Pierce? She was the OG of "big babe tennis". Tall and long and was going to hit every ball as hard as she could. The style similarity and footwork/movement (neither are great movers) jumps off the page. Serena was a much bigger frame and really fast for the first decade of her career. Her strokes are quite different as well and she was a very good transition player. They were all power players but Serena was kind of unique.
Andy, with all due respect, it’s surely weird that such an amazing firepower as America’a lineup is second to small European individuals that are dictating the future of tennis. It’s not the grits, it’s non the willpower, but it’s gotta be something in the process…
Raducanu not wanting to play qualies is pure entitlement. There ain’t no other way around it. She thinks she’s too good, when in reality she’s very close to being a blip on a radar as a one slam wonder
Sabalenka has irrational confidence. I feel much of it is that she knows she can only win playing one way. She has to keep crushing it. She can't really play defense. Coco is the opposite. She loses confidence easily when she starts missing because she can defend. Coco can win matches just using her wheels to play defense, but having that ability makes it easy to stop hitting when things aren't going well, so it can sort of work against you.
So you didn't watch the video. Saba has variety what made her win the final wasn't hitting hard it was the variety also both Kim and Andy alluded to her movement , movement means defence and that's what has improved with Saba against . Navaro is good at defense , pegula is mid good at defense and oww Coco was destroyed at the AO 23 semi by sabalenka .
@@brazhnervnix3844 that's not what he/she meant. Saba's variety is more like throwing her opponents an occasional changeup to catch them off guard (esp the dropshot); or using the slice to set up the big forehand. doesn't mean she changes her entire game plan, which will always be offensive and looking to tske charge. She even said herself (after the Pegula match i think) that she always needs to remind herself to swing freely, because her game doesn't work otherwise when she plays tentative.
Saba lost the 2023 final not so much to Coco, but to the fans who very strongly supported their African-American, if that final had been in Minsk (in Sabalenka’s homeland), then Coco would not have had a single chance, do not have any illusions😅
@@al1976-v7mI agree with you. I don't care what Andy says. She has one plan only with an occasional drop shot. Dies she even know how to hit body serve?
This is clearly the best tennis podcast. Andy and Kim are a great listen and have obvious rapport. I'm looking forward to a deeper dive on the schedules...I don't think backloading the 250s is the way to go though. You'd be relegating them to afterthought status, which maybe many of them are anyway, but putting them after the USO would be their death knell. I'd like to see some sort of qualifying tournament from players ranked 150 plus where the winner(s) would automatically qualify for all of the next years majors.
Why would you want to change the qualifying mode?! much better to have dangerous in-form qualifiers with matches under their belt in the draw, rather than people who qualify based on their shape last year. As for the 250s i agree, it wouldn't make sense - and not all 250s are in places where you can play tennis from Oct-Dec. 250s are already relying on paying players to show up, or sometimes local ties and fringe benefits that will entice them to come. Kitzbühel is a great example, players love to come there. But you can't backload it into the winter.
@al1976-v7m oh keep the qualifying for the slams but why not do a tournament/series that let, say, the top 4 finishers in the tournament/series lock up spots in the Slams. There will just be 4 less qualifying spots available when the Slams roll around. This would give smaller year-end 250s some stakes since simply qualifying for Slams can make a top 150 player's year financially.
@@qwerty4126 oh so you're saying to save the 250 tournaments they should be part of such a series? Or you mean this would enhance players' financial security because they would enter the main draw 4 times? I don't quite get it.
@al1976-v7m So you take say 4 250s at the end of the year and run them back to back. And only players ranked say from 151-215 are in them. Each player gets points for how they finish in each of 4 tournaments just like they do in any tournament. But when this group of 4 tournaments are over the 4 with the most points accrued in the 4 tournaments can skip qualifying for next years slams. They're in. Still do qualifying as always for slams but these four players who accrued the 4 most points don't have to do it, which means there won't be as many qualifying spots open through the traditional means. And keep the purses for these 250s at the end of year as they are but you can probably get a sponsor for this series to pony up and give the top four finishers a bonus in addition to the spot they earned in the following years majors.
Yes American tennis is in a good place but let's stay honest. Taylor and Francis are not gonna win a GS, maybe Ben Shelton but it takes more to win a slam.
This is something I wish Andy would address. Everyone in the tennis world seems to ignore it. In Sabalenka’s case it is literally textbook hindrance. Besides being incredibly loud she also doesn’t always make the same noise or same volume level, so you can’t use the old ”they do it consistently” argument. And she often times is still making noise while her opponent is hitting the ball. I can’t speak for any of the other players but as a spectator I can say that it makes me not want to watch tennis when she (and other players, do that.
Just like we experienced last year with the actors and the writer strike and the screen actors guild strike. There needs to be a players union, because the problem is you have anybody out of the top 100 they need those tournaments they may enter 21 tournaments a year and they barely get by. Carlos Alcaraz played more tennis from May through September then I've ever seen from another human being he just got done Davis cop singles and doubles. No he won two Grand slams and went to the Olympics and play the US Open he has a right to be tired but the guy who lost first round and then skipped a tournament because of injury wink wink He's going to have a very different view of it. They need to have the successful players put a fund so everybody can strike and they can limit the amount of tournaments they play and that fund can support the lower ranked players like the screen actors guild is until there is a collective bargaining agreement that you don't have to play until your half dead. Novak and Carlos wanted to win a gold medal and it cost them the US Open and it shouldn't be that way. No offense to Taylor Fritz but he's not a champion and he never will be we deserved a better match.
Mr Roddick & co. Mens tennis gets way more viewers / interest so I would expect at least equal attention to the mens game in your podcasts. Womens tennis I can't be bothered with (and for most it is the same). This is a pattern in almost all videos, for example draw discussions where the mens comes after and is done rather sloppily. This is just a viewers feedback but I'll skip the parts discussing the women's game.
While I understand where you're coming from, I think people consider Sabalenka to be more complete as she has made the SF or better in every major in 2023. 2 wins and a QF in 2024. Iga's has all slam QFs but more people see her losses on grass and faster hard courts as the counterbalance to her game being highly conditioned for clay.
@@andieoliviaIt's not that Sabalenka has reached the semifinals of all surfaces it's a matter of time she wins Wimbledon and comes for the french so it's not hate it's facts
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Bravo Andy! Served is actually the best place to listen whats going on in the tennis world. Very good and fun too.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, Served with Andy is the BEST tennis podcast/channel. To listen one of the best tennis player analyze and explain what the game/match was about is pure pleasure. I even watch some other international tennis channels and they quote Andy constantly and refer to his analysis.
Agreed. Whats your favorite major?
Roddick is the best character for sure i loved him as player and i like him so much as a podcaster he is good dude. Do your job man. Salute from Serbia
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Did you know he said that Novak's gold equals mixed doubles Olympic gold???
@@ivanambreus3021 at the olympics anygold is the same so i understand his point. But he also said that gold is super clutch and made novak undisputed GOAT
@@barry4312 US Open and Wimbledon. For some reason I really dislike Garros and AO, don’t ask me why, I don’t know 😂
Kim is an awesome champion. It's great to listen to her.
Always looking forward to Served releases. The only UA-cam channel I actually have notification bells for.
Andy: Thank you for yet another epiphany moment. Highlighting the fact that players need to achieve greatness by acknowledging who they are and their personality types. There are many different paths to greatness. As a dad coach to my sons, my two boys cannot be further apart in terms of personality and I've had to adjust my approach and delivery very differently. But I need to seek to amplify the good parts/strengths of their personalities instead of coaching out the negative parts. By amplifying their good traits, this should diminish the negative ones naturally. Thanks so much for this.
love you guys, love Kim, she's so nice for players, so understanding and agree with Andy on scheduling !!!
Loved the podcast but please don't overlook Paolini. She has brought a lot of joy to the tennis fans this year. We want to hear more about her please.
I've been saying this for a long time now: Sinner was a junior giant slalom champion at the age of 7. His movements are those of a slalom skier. Sinner plays skitennis.
Hahah nice insight, thanks. The muscle memory built in childhood is definitely so key.
Simply correct. And that's why is still improving. He started playing tennis very late compare to Alcaraz and the other top players.
That's so weird I thought the same thing and I've never been skiing. That balance and gracefulness when he's going side to side reminds me of a skier getting in and out of the gates. I told one of my friends that the other day and then I recalled Djokovic was/ is a skier and Roger being Swiss has to be. It's crazy how that seemingly unlike sport as a lot of transfer skills to tennis.
Andy, absolutely can’t wait for your you tube’s ! Thank you for your analysis of tennis and the players!
Served is a REFERENCE if you want inside thoughts/considerations/opinions on the current tennis world. I enjoy all the episodes 🥂👍💪
Regarding Fritz Sinner: I do match analysis of full matches by watching the game at 50% speed and noting every ball that is hit, where it landed, what type of ball was hit and what might the tactical patterns have been. In addition, I note counter attacks that may have worked better. Sinner was directing balls in such a way as to open the entire court to his forehand by reversing his position immediately after any backhand shot. Fritz should have attacked deeper to his feet with a more aggressively shaped ball. His shots were generally flat landing around the service line right in Sinner's strike zone. Sinner was also so fast on the bounce that he was able to consistently rob time especially when redirecting the rally.
As an American, I loved loved loved her way of teaching her child through their mistake. A very classic, tennis parent approach.
I noticed Sinner's serve improved a lot which makes a big difference . The guy is super fast although he does not get enough credit for that. Overall Sinner is most consistent ball striker forehand and backhand. My only concern about Sinner is if he body will endure the stress over time to allow him to win more than 15 Grand Slams. The same applies to Alcaraz with such aggressive style.
Why are you talking about 15 slams for guys who have just won their first few
@@seancarroll5803because they are going to average one or two a year. For the next 5 years so long as they stay healthy.
@@seancarroll5803 I guess because they're frighteningly good while being so young
At the same time I see your point and it's a good point
@@seancarroll5803 Because the kid is young and he got two in one year? Not very complicated. Why does it bother you? (Spoilers, I don't really care).
Sinner is very tall and is always bent on his knees. I'm afraid they might give up when he turns 30, but I hope I'm wrong
i love those comments how it actualy looks live compare to tv, as also technical parts like movement etc. The best podcast for inside content of proffesional tenis.
Good takes andysters
I find a decent way to describe Sinner is Berdych's powerful clean shots with many of Djokovic's skills. That's an effing deadly combination as we can see from his performance and ranking.
Two Week Masters have been bad for the schedule, and for fans. It means players are in tournament mode for longer, with less breaks, and good matches are more thinly spread, depleting the on site and tv viewing experience.
And boring
I love this pod I love Kim! You’re all right too Andy haha keep up the amazing work guys
The way I almost tripped over myself to get here…
Love this podcast! Well done Andy
Andy, Great recap show, love watching you.
About Taylor and the pressure of having an American player winning a Slam again. It was so evident during the ceremony that the pressure generated by this was on him during the match, saying to be sorry for not winning and to try again next year. This is something SO bad for players... it's the kind of pressure that hit Novak when he lost to Danil for the Grand Slam
Nice recap Andy, Sinner the king🎉🎉
Andy is the boss! Kim is a queen boss! Two legends. So happy to have this place with quality and deep conversations that are so knowledgeable, and well balanced between WTA/ATP across all the topics on and off the court. Keep it up!
Great show Andy. Kim is such a delight.
Regarding the athletes schedules, I think they can have and organize as many tournaments as they want. The balance needs to be in the less mandatory events , or a different way to reach mandatory point events, that way athletes have more flexibility to schedule their year based on their objectives, achievements, injuries… etc ..
This was such a great one, thank you!
I've been waiting for this "podcast" like crazy
I feel pretty good about my picks on the men's side. I picked Sinner for the Aussie and US Open, and Alcaraz for Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Here' s to a repeat next year and to the changing of the guard in men's tennis! Love the show. Please bring Kim back more often. I miss her in the game.🎉♥🎾🎾🎾🎾
Looking forward to hearing more about the mysterious PTPA from Vasek Pospisil next week!
I love this site this is the best on Tennis ever. Thanks Andy I was your fan when you played.
This podcast is so great
On Raducanu she's said repeatedly that she's not going to play a full tournament schedule. In effect she's a part timer. In juniors it was due to physical frailty. Her dad seems to have too much influence - a common tennis issue.
In junior, she couldn't even if she wanted to because she was going to school full time... So, her tennis schedule was limited & had to balance around her regular school schedule...
@@thanhvientran497 I disagree. The reason cited is her regular injuries.
@Served with Andy Roddick Just a suggestion to allow every player to plan their own schedule what tournament they want to participate and take ownership instead of ATP/WTA forcing mandatory. That way the player can't complain much. Have the players submit their tournament schedule beginning of the season and unless unforeseen medical/injury circumstances, they can pull out of tournaments...
I first saw Andy Roddick from the coverage of the US Clay Court championships at the Westside Tennis Club in Houston, TX in 2001. Back then they had Jan-Michael Gambil's bare chest on all the TV ads and practice footage. JMG was 1st seed, but Andy won the tourney. This particular mic really works well with Andy's voice. sorry, I'm a recording nerd.
Just 11 mins in and looove the conversation so far.
Would a recap focusing on things worth mentioning for each and every day of the 3 week tournament be interesting? Definitely curious for next weeks podcasts. Keep it up . Love it always
Most informed , interesting, insightful tennis podcast. My podcast highlight. Also totally agree with Andy re tennis schedule. It’s crazy. The wrap weeks sounds like a brilliant idea. Andy for tennis president ! ( if there was such a thing )
I take my heart for Jessica considering she does not have a powerful serve and being a slow mover. Consistency and mental strength are her best qualities.
Oh it's a pity you did not talk more about Muchova with Kim, she was the shining star of the tournament
Best tennis podcast fr 😌
Gill gross as well !
I honestly feel bad for Rybakina, firstly because she's not the kind who likes overexposing at all, secondly because all these conjectures (if true) might undermine her best quality on court: mentality, also off-court of course. It's excellent the fact she's chronically offline, she thinks better without internet constant anxiety crisis.
Let's hope she will be ok..I honestly miss her
Mr. Roddick and Mrs. Clijsters, I’ll comment on the Raducanu segment. A lot of people including you are too pressed about Raducanu playing qualifiers for events. I’ll first cite the most recent cases in Cincinnati and Toronto. For Toronto which she was scheduled to play in, the turnover from DC to Toronto was very quick so no real time for her to acclimatize to the conditions. Then we went to Cincinnati, she didn’t make the initial cutoff for them ( rank 94, cutoff 72), and by the time she was in DC quarters, no withdrawals had happened. It wasn’t until a few days before the Cincinnati qualifiers that mass withdrawals happened. Then we go back to the case of the French Open where she withdrew from the qualifiers she said it was to set up her grass swing and it paid off. Back to her US Open preparation if the problem was a lack of match play I believe she should have possibly played in Cleveland or Monterrey the week before the US Open.
She was amazing!!!
Alcaraz lol. The guy is playing Laver Cup, the Garden Cup and a Charleston exhibition. So demanding this schedule.
He should be more like Junky Sinner. 💉
Great to see the great Kim Clijsters back on the show. However I am surprised you did not address the elephant in the room. You don’t usually shy away from controversy. I’m disappointed to say the least. That Nick Kyrios can share major network coverage on WTA players while continuing to abuse them and contributing to some of the most vulgar, degrading and offensive content about female tennis players is reprehensible and incomprehensible in this day and age.
WHAT 16 YEARS OLD DAUGHTER! Loved Kim Clijsters
Had no idea about the Kim and Jada coin toss. Would’ve been fun to see on TV…thanks for nothing ESPN!
Andy always on point with the episodes!!! Thanks for including us into your world and keeping us posted. I actually emailed your team recently with something I think you'll be excited about-would love to hear your thoughts! Keep up the great work on the podcast! 💪🎾 #UnbrokenRTR
Andy, I hope you did a little networking while you were at the Open. So many potential interviewees and no doubt the trip inspired many potential topics and ideas. Ben Stiller and his wife, Christine Taylor, are massive tennis fans who know a great deal about the sport. Christine once interviewed Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer of Bush, and they nerded out together on her podcast. Gavin was also a junior tennis player once upon a time and has a strong friendship with Roger Federer. We all know Roger is the biggest fish for you and having Wilson as a sponsor of the pod works in your favour. I can't imagine too many players, coaches, tennis fan celebrities, chair umpires or tournament directors who would reject an interview on Served, given the right scheduling for them.
Thanks Andy., and thanks Kim for for sticking on the phone for an hour an a half.,! 🙏🍻
No, it's problems that are easier than solutions Andy. 😊
Let's declare it.
Andy Roddick is a Prophet.
After all he gave us with his glorious career now we get this ultra-sharp mind looking into his crystal ball and making it reality.
Sure the men's draw wasn't all hit-parade, but who cares.
Women's finalists and the winner right. Wow. He might have his wishes and belief little entangled and warped with US men, but he found Pegula to make the breakthrough. Get the man a medal. Why does Andy Murray have the Sir in front of his name. Roddick deserves it more. They should bring the knighthood in US just for this.
Well anyhow Now the trolls have nothing to play with.
They are clueless in front of a Prophet.
Un Prophet.
Man out of this time.
Magnificimo 🎉
Here’s a game for y’all
Every time Andy says f’in
‘In Real Time’……
do a shot of tequila.
Watch your day change 👍🏽
It's Elite****
Look out for Sonay Kartal.
Let's gooo Andy !
Raducanu lost to Kenin higher ranked and slam winner also. Not a huge surprise with having 3 weeks off
Karolina Muchova
Tommy Paul will be the one taking care of business. He's got talent, little ego, he is calm, he knows what happens when you don't work hard, now, he works hard.
Would love this to be the case.
Where is Jen Brady?
"We are brought to you by the good folks at Chase." Lol
Hello Ghostie! 😘
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If Elena Rybakina doesn't step up, Saba will win more majors that we could even imagine. Don't forget how Rybakina destroyed her in Brisbane Final this year. Ryba's peak is way more higher than Saba's.
everyone has bad matches, however, Sabalenka beat Rybakina 6 times
Rafa was the best at playing his best on every point.
I know she is mother of three but damn it, she would be a great great great coach, even for atp.
Kim is amazed by Sinner’s last few months. 👀
Nothing against Coco Gauff, she's a great player, but Iga and Sabalenka aren't much older than her, and don't look like dropping off, then who knows who the next generation of players are. At present she doesn't look like she can surpass them and become the dominant player people thought she would become when she came on the scene so young.
actually swiatek been better outside hardcourt slams compared to Sabs the last 3 years.
I agree but slams matter most. Iga needs to collect herself in matches
The issue with Sabalenca is that the “ play to your strengths…” might make her a one dimensional player- those players do not win grand slams in all surfaces. Others will exploit her weaknesses. Think like, Wawrinka, Isner, Muguruza, etc.
and the worthless coverage of espn didn't show the coin toss but they will spend 10 mins talking to celebrities while a match is going on
Mary Carrillo is the worst. Actually no Pam Shriver is the worst but Mary is a close 2nd
@@StewNWT Thats surprising with John McEnroe around. ESPN needs to replace John with Jim Courier.
@@michaeladkins6 John talks about himself a lot but he’s still not bad.
No one compares with Chris Fowler. He’s the best
@@michaeladkins6that is an asinine take. Courier is not in the same ballpark as McEnroe. Stop commenting, you have ridiculous opinions.
@@StewNWTno sir, you’re the worst.
I do take notice that Sabelenka did not likely treat her ex well. Possibly leaving him and had another beau already. No man would come to Miami to watch her play (he was a well known Soccer coach and league leader) then jump to his death. Her rxn? She was practicing hours later being videoed. Why is no one delving into this
@@nancyp7019 hmm I doubt it. It was ruled by the detectives as a suicide. That means whatever but likely not found to be a mistaken fumble as he was a professional soccer player
I agree there is so much more to that story. We'll never know the details @@donaldbraugh2314
@@donaldbraugh2314he was a professional hockey player
How do you know that she did not treat him well? It looked to me more likely that he was a washed up hockey player who was riding her fame. Maybe she broke up with him because he was a drunk and using her.
Better comp for Sabalenka style wise would actually be Mary Pierce, not Serena.
Why
Did you ever watch Pierce? She was the OG of "big babe tennis". Tall and long and was going to hit every ball as hard as she could. The style similarity and footwork/movement (neither are great movers) jumps off the page. Serena was a much bigger frame and really fast for the first decade of her career. Her strokes are quite different as well and she was a very good transition player. They were all power players but Serena was kind of unique.
Rybakina's coach was banned? First time I hear of this 😮
Yes....and this is strange, right ?
the biggest difference between them was the backhand.
Andy, with all due respect, it’s surely weird that such an amazing firepower as America’a lineup is second to small European individuals that are dictating the future of tennis.
It’s not the grits, it’s non the willpower, but it’s gotta be something in the process…
Mike the producer reminds me of Peter griffin 😂
What's the point of having a guest on if you're going to interrupt them?
It's what he does. I'm here for a 2 minute segment
Raducanu not wanting to play qualies is pure entitlement. There ain’t no other way around it. She thinks she’s too good, when in reality she’s very close to being a blip on a radar as a one slam wonder
Coco needs to switch to Pickel ball.
Sabalenka has irrational confidence. I feel much of it is that she knows she can only win playing one way. She has to keep crushing it. She can't really play defense. Coco is the opposite. She loses confidence easily when she starts missing because she can defend. Coco can win matches just using her wheels to play defense, but having that ability makes it easy to stop hitting when things aren't going well, so it can sort of work against you.
So you didn't watch the video. Saba has variety what made her win the final wasn't hitting hard it was the variety also both Kim and Andy alluded to her movement , movement means defence and that's what has improved with Saba against . Navaro is good at defense , pegula is mid good at defense and oww Coco was destroyed at the AO 23 semi by sabalenka .
@@brazhnervnix3844 that's not what he/she meant. Saba's variety is more like throwing her opponents an occasional changeup to catch them off guard (esp the dropshot); or using the slice to set up the big forehand. doesn't mean she changes her entire game plan, which will always be offensive and looking to tske charge. She even said herself (after the Pegula match i think) that she always needs to remind herself to swing freely, because her game doesn't work otherwise when she plays tentative.
Saba lost the 2023 final not so much to Coco, but to the fans who very strongly supported their African-American, if that final had been in Minsk (in Sabalenka’s homeland), then Coco would not have had a single chance, do not have any illusions😅
@@vaddok91 yes true, she was also helped by the fans vs Siegemund
@@al1976-v7mI agree with you. I don't care what Andy says. She has one plan only with an occasional drop shot. Dies she even know how to hit body serve?
There always seems to be time for exhibitions though.
This is clearly the best tennis podcast. Andy and Kim are a great listen and have obvious rapport.
I'm looking forward to a deeper dive on the schedules...I don't think backloading the 250s is the way to go though. You'd be relegating them to afterthought status, which maybe many of them are anyway, but putting them after the USO would be their death knell.
I'd like to see some sort of qualifying tournament from players ranked 150 plus where the winner(s) would automatically qualify for all of the next years majors.
p.s. - Cursing Andy is the best Andy.
Why would you want to change the qualifying mode?! much better to have dangerous in-form qualifiers with matches under their belt in the draw, rather than people who qualify based on their shape last year.
As for the 250s i agree, it wouldn't make sense - and not all 250s are in places where you can play tennis from Oct-Dec. 250s are already relying on paying players to show up, or sometimes local ties and fringe benefits that will entice them to come. Kitzbühel is a great example, players love to come there. But you can't backload it into the winter.
@al1976-v7m oh keep the qualifying for the slams but why not do a tournament/series that let, say, the top 4 finishers in the tournament/series lock up spots in the Slams. There will just be 4 less qualifying spots available when the Slams roll around. This would give smaller year-end 250s some stakes since simply qualifying for Slams can make a top 150 player's year financially.
@@qwerty4126 oh so you're saying to save the 250 tournaments they should be part of such a series? Or you mean this would enhance players' financial security because they would enter the main draw 4 times? I don't quite get it.
@al1976-v7m So you take say 4 250s at the end of the year and run them back to back. And only players ranked say from 151-215 are in them. Each player gets points for how they finish in each of 4 tournaments just like they do in any tournament. But when this group of 4 tournaments are over the 4 with the most points accrued in the 4 tournaments can skip qualifying for next years slams. They're in. Still do qualifying as always for slams but these four players who accrued the 4 most points don't have to do it, which means there won't be as many qualifying spots open through the traditional means. And keep the purses for these 250s at the end of year as they are but you can probably get a sponsor for this series to pony up and give the top four finishers a bonus in addition to the spot they earned in the following years majors.
Yes American tennis is in a good place but let's stay honest. Taylor and Francis are not gonna win a GS, maybe Ben Shelton but it takes more to win a slam.
Congrats to Sabalenka and Sinner. But I find Sabalenka annoying with her loud grunts.
yeah extremely annoying
This is something I wish Andy would address. Everyone in the tennis world seems to ignore it. In Sabalenka’s case it is literally textbook hindrance. Besides being incredibly loud she also doesn’t always make the same noise or same volume level, so you can’t use the old ”they do it consistently” argument. And she often times is still making noise while her opponent is hitting the ball. I can’t speak for any of the other players but as a spectator I can say that it makes me not want to watch tennis when she (and other players, do that.
"The good folks of Chase". Really??!!
Kim was so hot in the esrly 2000s and a beatiful person as well
Junky Sinner is the best!!! 💉💪
Just like we experienced last year with the actors and the writer strike and the screen actors guild strike.
There needs to be a players union, because the problem is you have anybody out of the top 100 they need those tournaments they may enter 21 tournaments a year and they barely get by. Carlos Alcaraz played more tennis from May through September then I've ever seen from another human being he just got done Davis cop singles and doubles. No he won two Grand slams and went to the Olympics and play the US Open he has a right to be tired but the guy who lost first round and then skipped a tournament because of injury wink wink He's going to have a very different view of it.
They need to have the successful players put a fund so everybody can strike and they can limit the amount of tournaments they play and that fund can support the lower ranked players like the screen actors guild is until there is a collective bargaining agreement that you don't have to play until your half dead.
Novak and Carlos wanted to win a gold medal and it cost them the US Open and it shouldn't be that way.
No offense to Taylor Fritz but he's not a champion and he never will be we deserved a better match.
Mr Roddick & co. Mens tennis gets way more viewers / interest so I would expect at least equal attention to the mens game in your podcasts. Womens tennis I can't be bothered with (and for most it is the same). This is a pattern in almost all videos, for example draw discussions where the mens comes after and is done rather sloppily. This is just a viewers feedback but I'll skip the parts discussing the women's game.
i skip men parts
Uni. Bb b. M
Bring us JW too
He was busy writing his piece about the 30 US Open takeaways
@@al1976-v7m 😏 though it’s 50 parting thoughts and those were published that night! The man is crazy hard worker!
this is a dumpster fire with no live video of the guest; lame!!!
Good pod
Really sad nthe suspected dopers being endorsed and more importantly being treated differently to other players
Why no video of KIM¿????????
She didn't want to doll up
Iga has 5 slams on TWO surfaces. Sabalenka has 3 on ONE. I can't hear anobody saying Sabalenka is only good on one surface. Annoying.
While I understand where you're coming from, I think people consider Sabalenka to be more complete as she has made the SF or better in every major in 2023. 2 wins and a QF in 2024. Iga's has all slam QFs but more people see her losses on grass and faster hard courts as the counterbalance to her game being highly conditioned for clay.
Saba is actually exceptional on grass she just hasn’t been able to play there due to injury and the ban on Belarusians.
People just don’t like Iga. That’s all I can chalk it up to really. A lot of people cannot stand her.
@@andieoliviaIt's not that Sabalenka has reached the semifinals of all surfaces it's a matter of time she wins Wimbledon and comes for the french so it's not hate it's facts
With her improved variety & net game i'm pretty sure Sabalenka can win Roland Garros if the conditions suit her (dry, hot weather)
PEDs help with movement 😂😂
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