Andy Roddick astatine the "'Served' Live pinch Andy Roddick featuring Brené Brown" during SXSW Conference & Festivals astatine the Austin Convention Center connected March 10, 2025 successful Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amanda Stronza/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)
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When ESPN announced successful February that Andy Roddick would subordinate the network’s sum for Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, it was wide greeted arsenic a awesome blessing for the tennis world.
Roddick, the past U.S. man to triumph a singles awesome astatine the 2003 U.S. Open, is known for his acerbic wit, wry consciousness of joke and immense knowledge of the athletics wherever he erstwhile reigned arsenic world No. 1. His play podcast Served pinch Andy Roddick is a must perceive and immense deed among tennis fans.
His caller quality successful the Apple TV movie The Dink also showcased his acting chops, albeit arsenic the humorous villain successful a pickle shot comedy.
Roddick proceeded to transcend expectations during his activity pinch ESPN astatine Wimbledon, teaming some successful workplace pinch Malika Andrews for penetrating lucifer study and successful the booth pinch John and Patrick McEnroe.
Awful Announcing made the constituent that ESPN’s two-person squad of Andrews and Roddick allowed the retired tennis prima much clip to make cogent points arsenic opposed to erstwhile ESPN featured a squad of analysts connected set.
"Simply, I’m ever conscionable a monolithic instrumentality of tennis. I’m very excited to subordinate the ESPN tennis squad and look guardant to covering the 2 biggest tournaments successful the world," Roddick said successful a connection up of Wimbledon.
Now Roddick, who retired arsenic a subordinate successful 2012 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame successful 2017, returns to the Open pinch ESPN and is being praised by his colleagues.
“He was awesome [at Wimbledon],” Patrick McEnroe said Monday connected an ESPN convention call. "He’s smart, he’s funny, tells it for illustration it is, and I deliberation he fresh correct in. You know, evidently he’s been doing his podcast for a while, which has been hugely successful, and I deliberation he benignant of brought that to to our sum successful Wimbledon, truthful having him astatine the Open, and if I’ve heard it a lot, you cognize he's heard it a batch astir the past American to triumph a major. So it'll beryllium cool to person him beryllium portion of that conversation. He ever comes backmost to the Open each year, but now that he's pinch us, that's been a huge, immense upgrade to our full team.
While some, for illustration Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post, person called connected ESPN to move connected from the McEnroes, the web made a smart move by combining Roddick pinch the McEnroes and their different analysts.
“He was terrific [at Wimbledon],” ESPN’s Mary Joe Fernandez said. “He was truthful overmuch nosy to beryllium around. He’s truthful witty and quick, and he knows his tennis wrong out. I deliberation the U.S. Open is going to beryllium a blast pinch him.”
Before taking his position successful the booth, Roddick will return to the tribunal connected Tuesday nighttime erstwhile he plays an accumulation of singles against Roger Federer, and past joins Andre Agassi to look Federer and John McEnroe successful doubles.
“He’s going to play a small tennis tomorrow nighttime pinch Roger Federer,” Fernandez said, “so it’ll beryllium awesome to person him retired there.”
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