Video from our audience Q&A with Andy Roddick, following his Overheard with Evan Smith interview. ------ Follow us on Twitter: overheardpbs Facebook: overheardwithevansmith Full length episodes online: www.klru.org/ov...
Wow, such a great and charismatic character, it's always not boring(unlike many players) to listen to, he speaks his mind and adding his well-known quick witted sense of homour
Love Andy and i was so bummed when Federer beat him in that 5 set classic at wimbledon. Andy is a class act with a great sense of humor. It's never boring listening to someone this insightful and articulate.
He was the only man outside of federer and Nadal to win a grand slam in a period from 2003 to 2010, excluding the AO that Novak won. He is the last American to win at our U.S. Open, so that makes him a top tier player, as far as I'm concerned.
Andy was great player an the humble bond with Roger.. top guy.......need more like him in todays game.........he was in a tough era/ but uk loved Andy roddick.
It's interesting to hear his opinion between Wimbledon and US Open... as a tennis fan for a long time, most people definitely do consider Wimbledon to be THE grand slam... because it's the oldest and most prestigious, the all whites, the "poshness" surrounds the whole tournament, but in reality, it's actually player's LEAST favourite slam, as players don't play on grand the other 11 months of the year! Grass courts are hard to find, there's only Wimbledon and less than a handful of lead up tournaments. However, as for the other three grand slams... French Open is the hardest to win, clay is a court least amount of players around the world grew up on, therefore not many have mastered the art, but clay is actually one of the most integral part of the tour, but French open gets the least attention. US Open and Australian open are very similar, both are alot more "casual" both are equally popular.
I was Andy's fan before I became a Federer fan. It pains me immensely even today that Andy came so close to winning Wimbledon three times and yet he was denied by Roger. I feel it was pure bad luck that did him in as opposed to Roger's superiority on those days. I would have celebrated more had Andy won the closest final.
Would've been great if Andy corrected the dude on WimbleTon. Interesting how the older fella never heard Andy joke around when that's all I remember from 100% of his interviews. Bright audience.
Americans sure talk a lot about American players like Sampras and Agassi, even though their records have long been bested by Roger Federer (the GOAT) and others like Nadal, lol.
On the contrary, Nadal hardly had to play Roger in his true prime (and when he did, Roger owned him). Most of the times Andy had to face Roger were when Roger was in his prime. Look at Roger in 2007 - neither Nadal nor Djokovic would have done any better against Roger than Andy did during that year (except Nadal at the French).
D in Wimbledon. What's hard about the name Wimbledon? Andy says it perfectly. Why does the man asking the question say Wimbleton? A lot of Americans do that - so weird.
