{"id":691,"date":"2025-07-11T05:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:34:04","slug":"andy-roddick-disgusted-by-billionaire-bill-ackmans-showing-in-pro-tennis-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick disgusted by billionaire Bill Ackman’s showing in pro tennis match"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to being a successful venture capitalist and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, billionaire Bill Ackman is also apparently a tennis enthusiast. Ackman finally made good on his dream of competing in a pro tennis competition this week, but it was such an obvious gimmick and ugly result that American star Andy Roddick took special time to rip Ackman\u2019s charade to shreds.<\/p>\n

After Ackman and retired professional Jack Sock lost a doubles match at the Hall of Fame Open in straight sets<\/a>, Roddick went so far as to call the match \u201cbeneath the Hall of Fame\u201d and called on the Association of Tennis Professionals to investigate the outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a total miss,\u201d Roddick said on his\u00a0Quick Served podcast<\/a>. \u201cThe job of the Hall of Fame is to preserve and celebrate excellence in our sport. This was the biggest joke I\u2019ve ever watched in professional tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Roddick is a partner of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and is creating content for the organization this summer. But he would not abide the stunt with Ackman.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill Ackman, who\u2019s been a massive tennis fan, supporter, funds the PTPA, does the whole thing, wanted to play a pro tournament. There was obviously some exchange of something,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t give a wild card to someone who 50 players at my club are better than.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roddick even referenced a previous penalty for Nick Kyrgios in 2016, when the ATP fined Kyrgios for \u201cnot trying.\u201d On Quick Served, Reddick argued that Ackman\u2019s opponents may have done the same to give the 59-year-old a chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was exactly one person on that court trying as hard as they could,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you want to argue with me, go back and watch that video. And you can\u2019t tell me there was more than one person trying as hard as they could every point, or any point. It was a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to being a successful venture capitalist and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, billionaire Bill Ackman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[429,461,972,973,99,428],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andy-roddick","tag-bill-ackman","tag-hall-of-fame-open-2025","tag-quick-served","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}