{"id":30841,"date":"2025-07-23T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30841\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:57:12","slug":"andy-roddick-predicts-what-will-happen-to-mens-tennis-in-the-future-as-he-says-the-sport-right-now-is-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30841\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick predicts what will happen to men&#8217;s tennis in the future as he says the sport right now is &#8216;absurd&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The sport of tennis continues to evolve, as a new generation of stars establish themselves at the top of the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<p>For years, we saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer dominate tennis, picking up a combined 66 Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<p>Many questioned whether the sport would find suitable replacements for the \u2018big three\u2019, but that question has been answered emphatically over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>World number one and two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz have shared the previous seven Grand Slam titles amongst themselves, outclassing their ATP Tour rivals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224939329-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz embrace after the 2025 Wimbledon final\" class=\"wp-image-112042\" \/>Photo by Daniel Kopatsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>As Sinner and Alcaraz continue to enjoy success, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/andy-roddick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Roddick<\/a> has commented on the current state of the men\u2019s game and predicted what may happen in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Roddick thinks we may see a \u2018serve bot as fast as Carlos Alcaraz\u2019 in the future<\/p>\n<p>During the latest episode of \u2018Served with Andy Roddick\u2019, the 2003 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> champion shared his thoughts on the sport\u2019s evolution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still waiting for the serve bot that is as fast as [Carlos] Alcaraz,\u201d said Roddick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, and it\u2019s kind of where it\u2019s going, Alcaraz is the outlier to the trend of everyone being taller and still being able to move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not a hugely tall person, but he is like the fastest person we have ever seen and the most athletic body we have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224652888-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Alcaraz roars as he secures his place in the 2025 Wimbledon final\" class=\"wp-image-110882\" \/>Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Roddick then commented on the changes he\u2019s seen in men\u2019s tennis over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to be a generational offset for the trend being bigger, stronger, faster, fitter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas if you were 6ft 7 back in the day, it probably meant you could not get in and out of the corners as well, so you were full speed ahead towards the net and just made yourself big and weird looking at the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we going to have eventually someone who is as tall as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/john-isner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[John] Isner<\/a>, but can move as well as [Jannik] Sinner? I would have said that it was almost impossible three or four years ago, and now I just don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2223667033-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Roddick waves from the Royal Box at Wimbledon in 2025\" class=\"wp-image-113951\" \/>Photo by Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we get that person like LeBron [James], who is bigger than Karl Malone, but also runs faster than a point guard in the 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we are waiting for that level of physicality where I can serve like Isner but move like Alcaraz. What I am seeing now is just absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell what tennis will look like in the future, but it will certainly be interesting to see.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the tallest player in the ATP top ten?<\/p>\n<p>Roddick commented on how taller athletes played \u2018back in the day\u2019, but who is the tallest player currently ranked in the top ten?<\/p>\n<p>ATP RankNameATP listed height1stJannik Sinner6ft 3 (191 cm)2ndCarlos Alcaraz6ft 0 (183 cm)3rdAlexander Zverev6ft 6 (198 cm)4thTaylor Fritz6ft 5 (196 cm)5thJack Draper6ft 4 (193 cm)6thNovak Djokovic6ft 2 (188 cm)7thLorenzo Musetti6ft 1 (185 cm)8thBen Shelton6ft 4 (193 cm)9thHolger Rune6ft 2 (188 cm)10thAndrey Rublev6ft 2 (188 cm)ATP top ten and their heights<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/alexander-zverev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> is the tallest player in the top ten, standing at 6ft 6, while Alcaraz is the shortest, at 6ft.<\/p>\n<p>Both players have enjoyed success on the ATP Tour throughout their careers, perhaps indicating that height isn\u2019t as big a factor as many once thought it was.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s career achievementsCareer-high rank \u2013 1st (36 weeks)Grand Slam record \u2013 5 titles (2022 US Open, 2023 Wimbledon, 2024 French Open, 2024 Wimbledon, 2025 French Open)Masters 1000 titles \u2013 7 titles (2022 Miami Open, 2022 Madrid Open, 2023 Indian Wells, 2023 Madrid Open, 2024 Indian Wells, 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters, 2025 Italian Open)ATP Titles \u2013 21 (5 Grand Slams, 7 Masters 1000s, 7 ATP 500s, 2 ATP 250s)Top ten wins \u2013 43 (4 over world number one)Alexander Zverev\u2019s career achievementsCareer-high rank \u2013 2ndGrand Slam record \u2013 3 finals (2020 US Open, 2024 French Open, 2025 Australian Open)Masters 1000 titles \u2013 7 titles (2017 Italian Open, 2017 Canadian Open, 2018 Madrid Open, 2021 Madrid Open, 2021 Cincinnati Open, 2024 Italian Open, 2024 Paris Masters)ATP Titles \u2013 24 (7 Masters 1000s, 1 Olympic gold, 2 ATP Finals, 6 ATP 500s, 8 ATP 250s)Top ten wins \u2013 55 (4 over world number one)<\/p>\n<p>Both players will no doubt have ambitions to add further titles to their resumes before the season reaches its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev is scheduled to return to action in Toronto on Monday, July 28, before Alcaraz joins him for the Cincinnati Open on Monday, August 4.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sport of tennis continues to evolve, as a new generation of stars establish themselves at the top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[429,430,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-30841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-roddick","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}