2025 Tennis Season Recap | Served with Andy Roddick

Served with Andy Roddick

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Sports, Tennis, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this 2025 Season Recap, Andy Roddick, Jon Wertheim, and Producer Mike dig into their “winners and unforced errors” of the tennis season: from successful US Open mixed doubles exhibition to the much-criticized extended Masters 1000 events. They debate the sport’s failure to empower creators and players to use match footage, and the power struggle over prize money and revenue share at the Grand Slams. The crew also relives Sinner–Alcaraz’s unforgettable Roland Garros epic, Coco Gauff’s and Iga Świątek’s seasons, Sabalenka’s resilience, and the booming depth of American tennis on both tours. Finally, they zoom out to why tennis is “having a massive moment” globally and why that makes the structural mistakes and missed opportunities even more frustrating. COMMENT BELOW What was your biggest “winner” and “unforced error” of the 2025 tennis season? 📩 Sign up for the Newsletter here: https://servedmedia.substack.com/ Check out some Served Merch: https://store.servedpodcast.com/ 🎾 Join the Served Chucker's Club for Exclusive Perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0k_--YLuTNuDvq1Dw4zHmw/join 📱If you're new to the Served with Andy Roddick, we're happy you're here! Follow us for more:https://www.instagram.com/servedpodcast/https://bsky.app/profile/servedpodcast.bsky.socialhttps://www.tiktok.com/@served_podcast Theme music composed, produced, and mixed by Dan Whittemore. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwhit.wav/ ⏰ Timestamps: 0:00 Ads 0:32 Welcome to Served 1:30 Winner: 2025 US Open Mixed Doubles 8:15 Error: Extended Masters 1000 Events 15:20 Winner: 2025 French Open Final | Sinner vs Alcaraz 19:26 Winner: TNT Sports Coverage of 2025 French Open 22:37 Winner: Aryna Sabalenka's 2025 Season 24:20 Iga Świątek's Season Turn-Around 25:56 Grand Slam Prize Money Negotiations 32:51 Error: Media Rights Restrictions in Tennis 38:36 Winner: 2025 Season Overall 44:27 Andy's thoughts on Current State of American Tennis 46:21 Closing Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.7	Welcome to Serve 2025 Recap. Okay. So most recap shows, you basically just run through and everyone tells you about the results that you already know. Is that generally? Pretty true. Correct. Yeah. I feel like we've done that. Mm-hmm. You've been here every week. Yeah. Most of you have been with us every week. So let's do it a little bit of a different way.
1:12.0	You had an idea, Mike. So what are we doing? Well, so John started doing this thing kind of mid-year, you know, which we did at some and not a lot, but it was winners and unforced errors. Which I loved. And I think it's a great segment. I think we should definitely do a lot of it in 2026. but I was like, what if that's our recap episode?
1:28.3	What if we just look at 2025 as a whole?
1:30.2	And we have some winners and... I think we should definitely do a lot of it in 2026. But I was like, what if that's our recap episode?
1:28.3	What if we just look at 2025 as a whole?
1:30.3	And we have some winners and unforced errors that are... We're just picking... We're just picking favorites. Yeah, they're just like, you know, 10,000... Just throw them shrapnel at everyone else? Yeah. Well, just unforced error. We're not saying they're like the losers or the worst.
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1:45.7	But you just didn't like it.
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