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Served with Andy Roddick

Why Isn’t Andy Roddick’s Serve Copied More? + Slam Pressure & Ball Selection Secrets | Q&Andy

Served with Andy Roddick

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Sports, Tennis, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Want to be featured on the next Q&Andy? Send us a video on our socials or email us at askandy@servedmediagroup.com Andy Roddick breaks down first vs. second serve timing, how return positions from Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer shape serve decisions, and why ball selection matters more than fans think. He also explains the platform vs. “back foot up” stance debate, shares his take on the underarm serve, and (with a special guest) lists the greatest servers in women’s tennis. 📱 Stay up to date with Q&Andy! Follow us on our socials:https://www.instagram.com/servedpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@served_podcast https://x.com/served_podcast ⏰TIMESTAMPS:  0:00 Welcome to Q&Andy: The Serve Episode  1:25 How important is the timing between a first and second serve?  5:14 What goes into ball selection before a serve?  9:04 Platform stance vs. bringing the back foot up  11:17 Comparing Alcaraz and Djokovic’s serving motions  12:36 Why is Andy’s service motion not often copied?  14:28 The truth about the underarm serve  15:29 Greatest female servers in history (with Kim Clijsters)  18:22 Mentality of serving for a Grand Slam title Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, happy Thursday. Welcome to Q&Andy. Subscribe.

0:11.0

Producer Mike, what do we got?

0:12.0

We have a special episode of Q&Andy because all of them are special.

0:16.0

Why is it so special?

0:18.0

Well, this week you had the amazing time had the amazing time speaking with one, Christopher

0:22.1

Eubanks, about serfs. Yes. Right? Yep. And so Ella and our crack team of wonderfully

0:28.1

intrepid creators thought, you know what, our Q& Andy episode should also be about serves.

0:34.2

Okay. Got to be honest. I know I talk a lot of shit against me. Yeah. Feel pretty fucking good about this. I feel like you're going to do pretty good with this one. All right. And just a reminder, thank you guys for sending in all your questions. If you do have questions in the future, follow us on all the socials. You can drop comments there or send to Ask Andy at servepodcast.com. Please send

0:55.7

videos, send voice notes. We'd love to share your, your, or you could just send mic a text

1:01.7

messages. No, please. Oh, God. Oh, God. Please no. That'd be a funny bet. That'd be a, yeah,

1:09.4

that'd be so great. I would love that.

1:11.1

My wife also loves how my phone just beeps all the time.

1:14.1

First question from John, how important is the timing between first serve and second serve?

1:19.6

It seems it can vary greatly between the player serving and the energy present in the stadium at the time.

1:25.6

I don't know. Maybe this is a lazy take, but I feel like fast players probably take less time in between.

1:31.2

I don't know that that's something I've thought about much.

1:36.8

Now this means the pacing, like you finish a first serve, you miss it, and then when you

1:40.7

get up and do it again.

1:41.7

Yeah.

1:43.0

Ritual, I like to just get into it.

1:44.5

I probably wouldn't want to, I mean, if you wait too long, I have to think that's similar to like freezing the kicker or like calling a timeout between free throws. I don't know that this space between would ever be beneficial. Now, sometimes you have to kind of call yourself off because someone will say something in the stands and if you know but I could argue that this just as beneficial to like surf through it

2:03.4

you know your opponent's listening for something. Like if I heard a cat, you know, some sort of call or like something people start whistling, I might be more motivated just to surf through it. Just go fast. Yeah, because like the returner is trying to, has to pay attention to. So, like, as a server, one of the

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