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Served with Andy Roddick

2024 OLYMPICS: Alcaraz & Nadal team up, Olympic Village experience, Gold Medal vs Slam Title??

Served with Andy Roddick

Served Media

Society & Culture, Tennis, Sports

4.8740 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Send us a text Andy Roddick and Jon Wertheim sat down before the start of the 2024 Olympics to talk all the headlines like Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal teaming up for doubles, is it a big deal that players decide not to walk in the ceremony, and whether an Olympic Gold Medal holds the same weight as winning a Grand Slam. Andy also shares some of his experiences being an Olympian and how it may not be all that is seems for athletes behind-the-scenes. Click here to watch the Bob and Mike Bryan interview: https://youtu.be/QJf9vjbj2jMServed is sponsored by Olipop! Check out the link below and use the code: SERVED20 to get 20% off your order: https://drinkolipop.com/served20 Support the show Keep up with us on socials!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/servedpodcast/X: https://twitter.com/Served_PodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@served_podcast?_t=8jZtCnzdAnX&_r=1Watch the Episodes on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0k_--YLuTNuDvq1Dw4zHmw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to served presented by Chase.

0:09.0

The Olympics edition.

0:10.6

What is it actually like to be on site?

0:15.2

I played in Athens in 2004, 08 in Beijing.

0:19.5

I skipped the Olympics, had a bit of a shoulder injury and found more

0:22.9

value and playing two tour events to try to rehab my shoulder as opposed to flying to

0:28.9

Beijing and, you know, lose first round and your first matchback and however long. And then I

0:34.6

played again in London in 2012. I think one of the coolest stories of the

0:39.3

entire thing is Team Rafa Raz. Obviously, the Chuckster and Rafa doing their thing.

0:46.4

Coco is going to carry the flag as the female flag bearer, which I think is so cool. But let's get

0:52.7

right to it. We have John Werthheim for a limited amount of time.

0:56.1

And then I'm going to kick it to Q&A for Techie Sean and Mike, where Mike will be asking

0:59.6

questions like, you know, are people really hooking up that much in the athlete village?

1:06.7

Great question, Mike.

1:08.8

Let's bring in John Wertheim first.

1:10.5

John, how's it going and have you

1:12.6

fully recovered from your Grand Slam spring slash summer with Roland Garros in Wimbledon?

1:17.5

Going good. Thank you for asking. Good to be back. Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like yesterday

1:22.7

we were extolling Carlos Alcoraz and wrapping up Wimbledon. And now we are previewing another big event on the tennis calendar.

1:30.5

And then in a few weeks from now,

1:31.8

we will have our fourth major.

1:33.3

So a lot of compression here.

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