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Served with Andy Roddick

2026 Tennis Season Kickoff: Injuries, AO Wildcards, Retirements, & More | Served with Andy Roddick

Served with Andy Roddick

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Sports, Tennis, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Andy Roddick and Jon Wertheim kick off the 2026 season by talking Stan Wawrinka announcing his final season. Andy Roddick explains why he respects Stan and Venus Williams for continuing to play when they no longer have the "Grand Slam carrot" in front of them. Plus, we break down the new ATP heat policy and injuries heading into the Aussie swing with stars like Jack Draper, Holger Rune, and Arthur Fils all out from the 2026 AO. Plus developing news from Novak Djokovic. Click here for Novak Djokovic statement: https://x.com/DjokerNole/status/2007915011239551208?s=20 Click here for PTPA statement: https://x.com/ptpaplayers/status/2007995991954256280?s=20 COMMENT BELOW:What are you most looking forward to in the 2026 tennis season?Who do you think is looking good for AO so far? 📩 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.social https://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 1:06 Welcome to Served 2:00 2026 AO lead up events underway 3:39 Should Andy do a standup comedy night? 5:00 Andy’s heckler story 6:28 Preparing for the Australian heat 8:50 Injuries heading into 2026 AO 15:50 ATP new heat policy 21:51 Venus Williams receives wildcard to 2026 AO 30:44 Wawrinka to retire at year end 42:07 Djokovic news update Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, everyone, welcome to served, everyone. Welcome to Serb. Welcome back to tennis.

1:01.9

You're back.

1:10.7

Big news off the top, obviously, with Novak releasing, basically saying that he doesn't have anything to do with the PTPA anymore.

1:13.5

We'll read the full quote at the end of the show.

1:16.6

But, J.W., what do you got?

1:18.7

How do you cover this part of the year, right?

1:22.7

Are we making too much about every set that's played, every, you know,

1:24.9

boo-boo that someone has coming out of the off-season? Like like how hard do you cover traditionally things that

1:29.7

are happening on January 5th or 7th or 8th as you're looking at them going into Australia?

1:36.7

I noticed you did not say January 6th. I'd rather cover tennis than cover January 6th.

1:42.7

You know, it's always, you know this. I mean, going into a major, you always sort of look at results skeptically. Is this player really dinged up or are they just preserving themselves for the event where even a first round loss might bring a six-figure check? I mean, the majors are that important that players want to go in 100%. It's kind of like a benefit of the doubt time of year, right? So if you win, hey, Hubert Kerkosh is, uh, Hubey's back and he's dialing in serves, and here's a player to watch in Australia, and Boozis Manaro plays a six love set against Coco, keep an eye on her. So if you have a good result, suddenly you've played yourself into at least sleeper contention at the major.

2:19.2

And if you have a bad result, we say, well, they're just being hyper cautious because they're much more important tournaments, i.e. a major than the United Cup or whatever.

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