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Served with Andy Roddick

John Isner joins the show talks longest match in history, training as a 7-footer, benefits of college tennis, and more

Served with Andy Roddick

Served Media

Society & Culture, Tennis, Sports

4.8740 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Send us a text Andy Roddick and John Isner talk through his experience playing the longest tennis match in history, how retirement treated him so far, the state of American Tennis today, and the benefits of NCAA Tennis. Andy asks his toughest matchup as Isner’s career crossed paths with many of the greats of multiple generations. Served 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 another edition of served, brought to you by Chase.

0:10.3

I am Andy, and we have one of my good friends from tour, at least the last five years of my career.

0:20.2

Always up. I mean, just one of like the nicest guys ever.

0:23.8

I'll say things.

0:25.4

I normally save my compliments for him for when he's not listening.

0:29.8

But a good friend of mine, just a real good citizen of a tour.

0:37.1

Good friend and now friend of the show. John

0:39.7

Isner, John, how you doing, man? Good, dude. Appreciate you having me on. Yeah, thanks for,

0:44.4

thanks for being on. Tell us what it looks like, because I'm always interested, because I rarely

0:49.2

get the same answer from former players, and you're kind of newly retired where it's still fresh, where the

0:56.5

game probably still makes sense to you when you go out and try to hit, unlike the rest of us,

1:00.7

Chuckers. But talk about what the transition to kind of being a normie is like. Are you enjoying it?

1:09.4

What parts do you miss about tour and what parts are you

1:12.1

happy that you never have to see again? Yeah, I will say that the game really never made sense to me.

1:18.7

I was a bit of an anomaly on tour. Obviously, I was, you could call me maybe a one trick pony,

1:26.1

but that one trick was pretty, pretty good.

1:28.2

So it's what kept me around, what kept me around on tour forever and ever. And definitely

1:33.7

what paid the bills for me. But you know, like, are you talking, are you talking about your

1:37.8

movement? Yeah, exactly. I'm talking about my movement and my backhand return. Yeah. So,

1:41.8

I'm talking about it. Good. So, uh, but look, I mean, I've had a long career.

1:47.2

I played till 38.5.

1:49.4

Something I never could have imagined.

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