“Serena Williams was already pressing bank”

Andy Roddick recently revealed that he and Serena Williams had faced each other in a set of practices when they came to the Juniors tennis circuit. The American insisted that at that time, he was still behind in terms of physical growth with respect to the winner of 23 times, which, due to his admission, was already quite strong at the time.

After having become in 2000, Roddick quickly established himself as one of the best male tennis players of all time winning the United States Open in 2003 and spending 13 weeks, as the world number 1 between November 2003 and February 2004. While he suffered several injuries during the second half of his career, the list of 32 times ATP remained a consistent strength in the main tour before his hanging on his breeding. 2012.

Since his retirement, Andy Roddick He has worked mainly as an analyst and has also recently begun his own podcast. Speaking to Tennis Channel this week, the 42 -year -old played like him and Serena Williams He had faced the practice courts once as young people. He added that the American legend was too good for him on the day, achieving a better score of 6-4.

“So you ask that in a joke, I lost a set of internships to Serena. We were in Macy's together and lost, my career record against Serena is 0 and 1. I lost a set 6-4,” said Andy Rodick when he asked Steve Weissman Tennis Channel if he had never faced Serena Williams before.

Roddick then joked that Williams's physical conditioning was even so impressive that he was “benches” at that time.

“We were the same age, but I was dodging the rain jobs. At that age, he was already pressing the banks, so …” he added.

For those who do not know, Andy Roddick and Serena Williams had previously talked about their set of practices in the Australian Open 2009 Also.

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“Andy Roddick has just been jealous because my body was more in shape” – Serena Williams

Roddick and Williams had a hilarious back and In his respective press conferences in Melbourne in 2009, as 23 years old, he stated that he was not so higher than his compatriot in terms of strength and that his face was more uniform than he would admit.

“ Andy always exaggerating. I was so small for my age. I was also small. But it only became jealous because my body was more in shape and my biceps are probably even greater than his. Andy is incredibly jealous of me. You know, I just don't know why. I can't blame it really, '' said Serena Williams in the Australian Open 2009 while she laughs.

Two years later, Roddick and Williams made fun of the possibility of joining the doubles forces, but of course no player tracked.