Andy Roddick
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You all have probably experienced it at some point.
You've had this crazy growth trajectory.
But we landed, I'm 10.
And at that point in Austin, I was 9...
beating 16 year olds.
So I was number one in the city in 16 and unders.
And I always tell people with athletic children, when you think they're really good, just travel a little further.
Yeah.
Right.
So we get to Florida and all of a sudden I see two girls hitting on these courts down at the end.
Their names were Venus and Serena.
Stop it.
Oh, wow.
How old were they?
Serena's about my age and Venus is, you know, two years older.
Oh, wow.
And so three years of our existence after we moved to Florida was like, you think you're good.
Right.
Yeah.
And then you see, I get goosebumps talking about like Jennifer Capriotti was there who won majors and made the final semis of the US Open when she was like 13.