Yeah.... May be because each serve was finished in fraction of seconds.....

homers.

F them

Because now we re soft but we will get tougher

I remember a few times when Federer was asked about who was his biggest concern during a grand slam, Novak or Rafa... Federer said actually Roddick was his concern because of Andy's serve...Respect.

fr i agree

I think that the commentators were less empathic back in the day.

Australian commentators are always rubbish, they lack passion. Coming from an Australian

Against a triple A player indeed. This is majestic

The commentators were Aussies. They weren't gonna be overjoyed about their boy getting a whooping.

Nothing on djoker

@@Bock75 Roddick did alright against Djokovic.

@@DMSlater He has a winning record against Djokovic so it's more than alright.

@@DMSlater he meant Hewitt 🤣 We already know Roddick beat Djokovic most of the time

Hewitt is not one of the greatest returners lol

Yes but his reach was not the best

Hewitt was garbage

@@DeeDeeJohn17 did he hurt you boo boo?

Not a great returner late career.

@@DeeDeeJohn17 but he was still good enough to beat Roddick here

His name is Stifler.

It wasn't Roddick. It was Moya.

i used to play my bedt tennis with the pure drive.. also i like truckercaps ..now i know why 😂

@@TenisAmador i stand corrected. u are correct. Carlos was probably the first. But Roddick and then Nadal made it main stream for leisure players.

And the first person to wear the hat back was the great Marcelo Ríos.

😂

It gets hot at the Aus open

Haha

Haha and adjusting the strings just a bit as he did not like them on the previous point

Stressful situation also makes you sweat. He couldn't do anything and was under stress 😁

Great respect for Roddick - he always gave it his all and never stopped improving his game after some tough losses against Federer. If he played in a different era, he could have picked up a couple more slams.

That was a classic, and a shame someone had the lose the match. Federer only broke his serve once, and it took him until the decisive moment at 14-15 in the 5th set. It took him 6.5 sets worth of tennis to break him, and it's still the only time someone has lost a GS final when only dropping serve once. Roddick was even up 6-2 in the 2nd set tie-break before losing it 8-6. There wasn't much else he could have done.

He described himself after retirement as a mediocre player with a good serve. Humble guy.

No no no. Come on. He never had the all court and shot making capability they have. He was a serve bot with a good forehand and a high motor.@@NicholasPeters1

@@cwolf208 I don't feel he was athletic or agile enough. Had he played in an earlier era, he likely would've gotten more slams. His serve alone could fetch a couple of old school wimbledons.

Excellent era for media and the internet, sports were great as well.

Idk about anything else, but certainly I love old tennis clips

You’re just talking about a time where you could say what you want without fear of losing your job. A time when people could take a joke. A time when just men had balls

Literally exactly the same here bro. I was born in 02 but I still feel nostalgic when I look at stuff from the early 00s

​@@MariadisHellerI don't Nadal is better

green ball against green court... yeah that makes sense

or he wouldn't have even won one, because he wouldn't have had access to the same racquet technology, sports science, diet, training, psychologists, etc.

my most fav tennis player up to date.

@@albertlwj it was hypothetical lmao, obviously ignoring the technicalities

@@ugnug Hipotetical, I (and every other tennis noob from today) would be the best male tennis player in history if I played at Rod Laver era. Technicalities ignored of course. I always liked Roddick as a character but neither was his tennis eapecially good nor did he anything but the serve. Some will argue that he had a monster forehand, yes, but at which efficiency? His backhand was never on top 100 level and for me the biggest surprise isnt that he didnt win more because of his serve but that he was so good despite his backhand.

Not the best server, but a hard server. Federer was a much better server. Andy was inconsistent and he was not a great spot server.

Roddick was a generation too early. With aging Rafa, Federer and nole, he would be absolutely perfect in this gen

@@kingston4313 no he was a generation too late. He would have fared far better in the Sampras era when courts were faster and balls were smaller. He would lose to med for example, when Med stays so far back the court it’s hard to ace him.

@@kingston4313 sincerely, he was coached into a wrong style. He had the serve speed, and he was using a standard racket. If he had used a heavier racket, it would not have been easier for opponents.

@@wozmac771 hopw many weight .

Or he was not just good enough. All you talk is about his serve. Yes, Roddick and Karlovic were the best servers. But whats about Roddicks backhand? It was always crap. If he had put mote efforz in the backhand he would be a much better allround player and maybe would have wo actually more. I respect Roddick but fact is that for the level he was playing, the disadvantages of his backhand outweighted the advantages on his serve.

The low toss 's much harder to time and it doesn't give extra power. It's idiosyncratic. Roscoe Tanner did that, Dolgopolov, Roddick ... only few players were taught or probably developed that themselves. It's not being taught in tennis schools and since most top players are schooled early ...

Gael Monfils

Just how probably nobody will be able to replicate Fedrer's slice technique. Somehow, for a weird reason, just worked for them

​@@GlobePwnageyes gael monfils serve is the closest to roddicks. But less efficient still

Roddick said Federer's serve was impossible to read and very accurate.

Roddick's serve was fast, but Federer had better placement and disguise but I think the major factor in Federer out-acing Roddick in their matches was Roddick's lack of return

He's quite literally the best shot maker in the history of the game, Fed is.

GOAT: Federer

Only one Fed The dago can go jump

Unique? Lower toss was standard back in the day. Look up Goron Ivanisovic, Steve Denton, and Roscoe Tanner. Even Kyrgios uses this today.

….you’re right it’s not unique. That’s why everyone serves like Roddick right?

@@plannedtuna8293 My bad. You’re right; Andy Roddick is the only player to ever toss the ball low.

The key is to hit it at its apex, as he does on the way up. Some let the ball drop down.

​@@rabbethole8985There is a lot more to his serve than the toss, it was an example. Clearly, it is unique even an amateur can see that. You are being willfully ignorant.

I was thinking this as well. Usually the big servers are 6’5 plus

He started looking for answers on how to deal with Federer. Problem was that answer didn't exist and it messed up his game and confidence soon followed.

@@michaeledmondson4385 the answers were there, roddick just accepted the wrong ones. his problem was that early on he went for all out power, but basically hit it right back at roger, and roger handles power better than anybody. the answer was to put that power in the corners instead of up the middle; something he never tried.

@@michaeledmondson4385 Federer got lucky against Roddick in Wimbledon 2004 and 2009 .

@@thepursuit1257 True Federer’s Wimbledon titles are flukes

Roddick had a very good serve but a WTA - level backhand. That's why Federer beat him so badly

Prime Hewiit and Prime Roddick would kick the "NextGen's" ass!

@@quentinhirschfeld9382 "NextGens'" aren't in their prime yet though...

@@TS-er2jc Medvedev is 26 while Zverev and Tsitsipas are soon going to turn 25 and 24 respectively, they're pretty much in the Prime phase of their careers!

​@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Well, I suppose both us here are guessing that they are either in their prime or not. At the end of the day, we can only point out when their prime was after they retire. Take rafa and novak for example. It's arguable that they are in their prime right now at the respective ages of 35 and 34. Age does not tell primeness.

@@TS-er2jc No, they're not, the winning % of Djokovic has dropped massively in best of 3 sets while Nadal's winning % has dropped massively in best of 5 sets despite the current TOP 30 is much less competitive and consistent compared to 10 years ago! It catches the eye when you watch them play, Nadal has massive drop of performances during a match (even when he plays well) and Djokovic isn't as sharp and deadly with his groundstrokes (he compensate a little with a fantastic serve developed thanks to Ivanisevic, that's why he is still the best right now)!

Thats just crazy

That’s tall, 6 2

@@MrSeanMDolan Compare it to Isner, it's small. 1.88m is nothing special on the pro tour.

In what world is 1.88 not tall?

@@markn.7914 Tennis pro tour. 15 players out of the current Top 20 are 1.88m or taller. 1.88m isn't super tall and nothing special on the pro tour.

I'm sorry, but he really wasn't up there with them.

Ironically, it was the lack of a valley game that prevented him from reaching the heights.

Lol

Give him a call then 😂

Goran has enter the chat 😂

Wow you wouldn't have thought that seeing these highlights

@@dannym6313 Roddick was a bit of a servebot and a one trick pony. Serve +1. If that doesn't work, he doesn't win. Good, not great player.

Omg, what ?

Gay

​@@MF-gr6os he had good forehead. The problem was his footwork.

The forehand became kitty cat after 2004.

@@BenTan89 no way

@@philipc3153 Thanks for telling me you only started watching tennis in the last 2 years.

@@BenTan89 and now you are going to tell me Michael Chang is the best thing ever. Puhlease. Thanks for telling me you have no idea at all what you are talking about. “Kitty kat??” Far from it.

@@philipc3153 His forehand was what made him lost several slams to Federer you doink.

Maybe. Maybe not. You are assuming there wouldn’t be someone else who could’ve stopped him.,

@@multiplemike If we just remove Federer and no-one else, I think Roddick could have won 2 or 3 more slams, before the competition overtook him. For a couple years it was only really Federer who was better, and he got unlucky to be facing him for most finals. Don't think Roddick could ever have been a truly dominant player though, his personality won him many fans but his game was never consistent enough.

"... Stay in school kids or you will end up an umpire ... Imagine being stuck in an elavator with him."

I think he got but not sure

He actually won 1 ! US Open 2003

One good shot from Nalbandian in semifinal - and Roddick would retire slamless. )

LMAO OMG YES

​@@ulyssesryan-flynn4515link?

Lol

@@2P1CK what a shame

@@talalzahid2241 it's a joke?

@@2P1CK i don't understand