Special Guest Victoria Mboko & 2025 Cincinnati Open Recap

Served with Andy Roddick

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Tennis, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Andy Roddick is joined by, 2025 Canadian Open Winner & World No. 24, Victoria Mboko. Andy and Victoria talk about her winning run in Montreal, growing up with competitive older siblings, and getting ready for the US Open. Andy also gives a 2025 Cincinnati Recap of the finals between Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner and Ina Swiatek & Jasmine Paolini. Lastly, Jon Wertheim ends the show with another edition of Winners and Errors: Tennis versus Climate, US Open Mixed Doubles, and more. COMMENT BELOW Did you watch the 2025 Cincy Finals? What did you think? What was your favorite moment from the Mboko interview? Stay tuned for our Draw Show LIVE from the US Open! If you’re in New York, swing by the stage outside Arthur Ashe - it’s free for Fan Week! Tickets to the Served Hall of Fame Live Show: https://www.tixr.com/groups/tennisfame/events/induction-grounds-pass-august-23-144208 🎾 Chucker's Club Exclusive Q&A: https://youtu.be/FH_jJ75vSHI 🧢 Check out the Served Merch! https://store.servedpodcast.com/ 📩 Sign up for the Served Newsletter here: https://servedmedia.substack.com/ 📱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 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to Served 1:45 2025 Cincinnati Recap 10:28 Victoria Mboko joins the show 11:30 Climbing from #330 to #24 12:25 How was Mboko so prepared for physical tennis? 14:30 How does Victoria Mboko stay so poised? 17:45 Mboko losing to her older siblings 19:47 Mboko talks about her wrist after Canada 22:17 Mboko talks about her coach - Nathalie Tauziat 28:50 Winners & Errors w/ Jon Wertheim 29:15 Alcaraz & Sinner Rivalry 30:35 Terence Atmane 2025 Cincy run 32:55 Jasmine Paolini positive attitude 35:37 Tennis versus climate 40:30 Andy and Jon talk US Open Mixed Doubles 45:39 Served Live Shows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.0	but a few are fighting. One of them is Zip Davis. This is Peter Kafka, the host of channels.
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0:29.3	That's this week on channels, wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
0:41.9	Hey, everyone, Welcome to served.
0:45.8	Exciting stuff. Cincinnati is finished.
0:50.9	Bit of an anti-climax in the in the finals situation.
0:56.3	We will get to it in the racket rundown brought to you by Wilson. Also brought to you by Wilson, coincidentally, later in the episode, the new star of tennis. Vicky Mboko.
1:04.0	She was awesome. I say was because the way that this show somehow, some way sometimes gets put together is umboko says,
1:14.1	8.30 is the time that I can do it. Let's do it before practice. And I mean,
1:17.7	a.m. not PM. Great. We will tell you're amazing. Thank you for giving us the time.
1:24.2	John Wertheim says 915. We can do winners and airs. So that's great.
1:27.9	We're going to do that.
1:29.3	And then we need to include, obviously, a Masters 1000 recap before a Tuesday release.
1:34.9	Well, 8.15 p.m. and we now have done that.
1:38.5	So this has been a bit of a Frankenstein episode.
1:41.1	Sometimes we do these episodes and you don't even know. You'll see later in the
1:45.8	episode I have a different shirt on from this morning before the workout. But that's the way it
1:50.5	works. I'm in a different location. Mike did the drive across town is like minutes long. So he couldn't,
1:57.1	he couldn't, he couldn't do it. It was too much. You know who is is here you know who did make the trip techie shone techie shone was here he's committed was here at
2:06.8	it's my job 815 this morning was here at 815 this evening but you'll love our our chat with
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