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tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nBy Richard Pagliaro | Monday, February 23, 2026
Photo credit: Andy Roddick Foundation<\/p>\n
Andy Roddick brought his booming serve and fierce forehand to SW19 as a three-time Wimbledon finalist.<\/p>\n
This summer, American fans can absorb Roddick\u2019s astute analysis at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
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Hall of Famer Roddick has signed a multi-year deal to serve as an ESPN analyst for both match and studio coverage. The 43-year-old Roddick, who retired from the pro circuit in 2012, will join ESPN\u2019s tennis commentator roster just prior to\u00a0Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimply, I\u2019m always just a massive fan of tennis. I\u2019m very excited to join the ESPN tennis team and look forward to covering the two biggest tournaments in the world,\u201d said Roddick.<\/p>\n
Former world No. 1 Roddick has emerged as one of the most popular tennis podcasters in the world since his retirement as well a respected studio analysis for Tennis Channel.<\/p>\n
Roddick\u2019s ESPN pact comes less than a year after TNT signed his former mentor, practice partner and fellow Hall of Famer Andre Agassi to a commentary deal.<\/p>\n
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The Roddick signing not only reunites him with his former Davis Cup captain, Patrick McEnroe, but it continues ESPN\u2019s reshaping of its commentary team. Earlier this year, ESPN announced it had parted ways with long-time analysts Pam Shriver and Brad Gilbert, Roddick\u2019s former coach.<\/p>\n
The 2003 US Open champion Roddick remains the last American man to capture a Grand Slam singles crown and has expressed optimism on the future of a U.S. man breaking through to master a major.<\/p>\n
The timing of Roddick\u2019s deal can also benefit ESPN if fellow former world No. 1 Serena Williams makes her competitive singles return. Roddick and Serena are good friends. At a US Open presser years ago, he recalled the one time they squared off in practice and Serena beat him. \u201cI was a skinny kid and she was bench-pressing dump trucks,\u201d Roddick recalled, noting Serena never gave him a rematch after their one and only practice match encounter.<\/p>\n
Over his 13-season career, Roddick, who was known for his powerful serve and forehand, reached four major finals, including Wimbledon in 2004, 2005 and 2009 and the US Open in 2006,\u00a0and won 32 ATP Tour singles titles, including five ATP Masters 1000 crowns.\u00a0 From 2002 to 2010, he secured nine straight year-end top 10 finishes in the ATP rankings. Roddick was the key player to lead the United States and Captain Patrick McEnroe\u2019s squad to the 2007 Davis Cup title and was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome Andy to the team. ESPN has long led the way in delivering in-depth tennis analysis, and with several recent talent additions, we\u2019ve further strengthened our coverage,\u201d\u00a0said Linda\u00a0Schulz, ESPN Vice President of Production.\u00a0\u201cAndy brings a distinctive, energetic, and highly relevant voice that will elevate both our studio and match coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
A three-time Wimbledon finalist, Roddick lost to Roger Federer in the 2004, 2005 and epic 2009 Wimbledon finals.<\/p>\n
In that thrilling 2009 final, Roddick botched a high backhand volley in the second-set tiebreaker that would have put him on track for a two-set lead and potentially an upset of the Swiss Maestro.<\/p>\n
A resilient Federer rallied for a 5\u20137, 7\u20136(6), 7\u20136(5), 3\u20136, 16\u201314 triumph in a memorable Wimbledon title match.<\/p>\n
After that gut-wrenching loss, Roddick a perceptive interview subject, earned respect for his class and candor after coming so close to the Wimbledon crown only to see it all slip away in a classic fifth set that spanned 30 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re human. We\u2019re not Cyborgs,\u201d Roddick told the media at Wimbledon. \u201cYou know, at that point, like everything else, there\u2019s two options: you lay down or you keep going.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe second option sounded better to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, February 23, 2026Photo credit: Andy Roddick Foundation Andy Roddick brought his booming serve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-499360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}