2026 Tennis Season Kickoff: Injuries, AO Wildcards, Retirements, & More | Served with Andy Roddick
Served with Andy Roddick
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:59.5 | 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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