The Maria Sharapova Interview | Served with Andy Roddick

Served with Andy Roddick

Served Media

Tennis, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Maria Sharapova joins Andy Roddick on the Served Podcast to talk her career, her business ventures post-retirement, and motherhood. Andy and Maria talk about her induction into the Hall of Fame coming up next week and take a look back at some of the iconic moments from her career/life: moving across the world at 7 years old for tennis, winning the French Open twice, battling injuries, and so much more. COMMENT BELOW What is your favorite Sharapova Grand Slam win? What is the most iconic Sharapova moment? Tickets to the Served Hall of Fame Live Show: https://www.tixr.com/groups/tennisfame/events/induction-grounds-pass-august-23-144208 Watch the Full "Winners & Errors" Segment Here: https://youtu.be/dquGZLl6EhM 🎾 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 0:42 Winners & Errors Segment 1:50 Victoria Mboko wins 2025 Canadian Open 2:30 Cincinnati Open renovations 4:30 Frances Tiafoe helps out next generation 6:32 Tennis’ summer schedule struggles 9:47 Daniil Medvedev loses to Adam Walton at Cincinnati 12:35 Maria Sharapova joins the show 12:50 Life as a mother 18:00 Maria’s story about Andy’s restaurant recommendation 21:30 Moving to the USA from Russia at 7 years old to train 24:25 Maria talks about her dad Yuri 27:30 Sharapova talks about her expectations for her team 29:45 The power of “No” when it comes to brands 33:08 Winning Wimbledon at 17 years old 39:55 Battling expectations 42:40 2008 AO Open was peak Maria Sharapova 43:35 Preparing to play Lindsay Davenport 49:45 Sharapova shoulder injury was mis-diagnosed & coming back from injury 54:00 Winning Roland Garros twice after injury 1:02:20 Maria’s transition into business 1:09:30 Young athletes who take any deal that comes there way 1:14:00 What makes Maria Sharapova a great investor 1:20:20 Did tennis help shape Maria’s business mindset? 1:22:30 Maria talking about being inducted into the Hall of Fame 1:30:40 Maria wants to finish the interview… 1:34:32 Closing thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here is a big existential question for every media company today. Do they fight the AI
0:07.3	tech overlords or do they just take their money? So far, most of them are taking the money,
0:12.9	but a few are fighting. One of them is Zip Davis. This is Peter Kafka, the host of channels.
0:19.6	And on this week's episode, I'm talking to Zip Davis, CEO of Avec Shah, who tells me he's kind of optimistic about the media business and why he's taking on the people behind chat GBT.
0:29.3	That's this week on channels, wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
0:41.8	Hey, everyone, welcome to served.
0:45.2	We have a great show for you today.
0:52.2	Not a lot of people walking around Earth that walk into any grand slam and go, you know what?
0:53.9	I've won here before.
0:57.8	We have one of them this week on the show.
1:02.5	Five-time Grand Slam winner has won all of them at least once.
1:06.8	Maria Sharpova going to join the show today, which I'm very, very excited about.
1:12.2	But on the other side of this, we're going to try something new on the front side of this with our homie, John Wertheim. Basically, we're getting, as the show comes in, there's a lot to
1:19.3	cover and there's a lot we want to give attention to that we can't always get to in a big show
1:24.7	and a long format interview. We're not going to interrupt a Maria Sharapova interview to give you thoughts on the
1:30.3	renovation in Cincinnati.
1:31.9	It doesn't work in the flow of the show.
1:34.0	But we do want to kind of tip the cap, give our opinions, be up to date on all things in tennis.
1:40.8	So we're going to try a segment called Winners and Ayres, where J.W. gives us all the
1:45.6	goings on and shares some of his inbound with what's, who's doing what, where, why, and when
1:51.6	in tennis. So winners and errors. We need theme music. That'll be our next phase. There you go.
1:59.1	Yeah. Some of this is, that was well said. Some of this is just a direct rip-off of our brethren at Vox. Kara Switzer and Scott Galloway's wins and fails. But no, this is a good way to sort of get some of these items. Some of them are big and sweeping. Other are just sort of these things that sometimes fall between the cracks, but probably deserve some mention.
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