Roddick's father, Jerry, is an investor, and his mother, Blanche, is in charge of andy roddick Foundation, which has raised more than $9 million for nearly 10 charities since 200 1 0. His foundation has been supported by celebrities such as elton john, lionel richie, cindy crawford and donna sommer. Now, Andy Roddick's youth tennis program in San Antonio, Texas has helped 65,438+050 poor children. In addition to three university scholarships, the project also provides four basic scholarships based on private schools. Roddick won the ATP arthur ashe Charity Award in 2004.
Roddick's second brother, John 1996-98, studied at the University of Georgia and is also a national tennis player. Now he runs a tennis school in San Antonio. Eldest brother Lawrence is a local acupressure therapist in San Antonio. He is an excellent springboard player and was selected for the national team. Roddick is a big fan of the University of Nebraska football team. My family moved to Austin, Texas when I was four and a half years old, moved to Boca Raton when I was 10, and returned to Austin in June 2003. In high school, Roddick and later Davis Cup teammate Marty Fisher were members of the school basketball team. Fisher is training life with Roddick on 1999. Roddick's hobbies are listening to music (Dave Matthews Band and john mayer are his favorite songs) and watching movies (The Shawshank Redemption is his favorite).
In June 2004, he was selected as "the 50 sexiest single men" by People magazine, and in 2006, he was selected as "the sexiest man of the times" by People magazine. Since 5438+0 in 2006, Roddick has scored 3 1 win1lose in 22 Davis Cup matches, and the number of wins is second only to mcenroe's 4 1. In May, 2006, Roddick was appointed by President george walker bush as an adviser to the Government Sports and Health Committee. In the summer of 2007, he became the cover of men's fitness magazine. On April 7, 2009, she married swimsuit model Brooklyn Dyke in Austin. Traveling around the world with Doug Spring, the trainer of the original ATP Tour. From June 5438 to February 2008, I studied under Larry Stefanki. On Friday, April 19, 2009, Roddick's wedding was held in his hometown of Austin, Texas, and only a few relatives and friends were invited to a country club to attend the wedding reception. Ronaldinho's audience includes many tennis players, including friends Fisher and Blake, as well as Agassi and Graf, the top couples in tennis. The famous singer elton john made a special trip from Las Vegas to sing a song for his old friend's wedding reception. Roddick not only gave up the Monte Carlo station, but also spent his holiday at the Barcelona Open-nothing is more important than going to Costa Rica for his honeymoon.
Born in 1987, "Mrs. Luo" Brooklyn is a famous model of the royal swimsuit of Sports Illustrated. She and Ronaldinho met at the 2007 US Open. Ronaldinho, who has been having an affair, packed her bags and obeyed this time, and only proposed to her after dating for half a year. After almost a year of engagement, they finally officially "buried the skylight".
In the first full professional season, Roddick, aged 65,438+09, * * * won three championships in the ATP Tour, becoming the youngest player to enter the top 20 since the establishment of the professional ranking at the age of 65,438+09 and since Sampras won four championships in one season at the age of 65,438+09. He is also the first person who can achieve the same good results at the same age. At that time, some people thought that when Sampras and Agassi were getting old in American tennis, Roddick had shown great strength beyond his peers, which undoubtedly made him the most suitable successor of the two predecessors.
Roddick, who just appeared in Melbourne Park Central Stadium for the second time, almost created another miracle of the Australian Open in 2003. After defeating Moroccan veteran Ainoy for 300 minutes in the 1/4 final (2 1- 19 in the last set), Roddick failed to win the semi-final. Since then, Roddick has lost in the next two finals, first to Dent, who is as young as himself, and then to Agassi in the clay court final in Houston. However, his victory in Austria before the start of the French Open saved part of his decline, but the unexpected defeat of Armenian player Salxian in the first round of the French Open aggravated the contradiction between him and his former coach Ben Habilis, who was far from meeting Roddick's guiding requirements for continuous improvement.
Gilberto's timely entry became an opportunity. Roddick's state improved immediately under the patient guidance of the new coach. The victory of Queen's Lawn greatly strengthened his confidence in Wimbledon. However, Roddick, who was too impatient in the semi-final, lost to the final champion, but this time he lost to Federer, who was only one year older than himself. After the grass season, Roddick showed excellent competitive state in the following North American hard court season, although he missed his first Grand Slam championship trophy again. In addition to losing to British veteran Henman in the semi-final of Legge Mei Sen, Roddick brought an amazing record of 20 wins in 265,438+0 games before going to new york, winning the Masters Series in Toronto and Cincinnati. The last one who achieved such a winning rate was his teacher Gilberto in 2008.
As a result, we saw that Roddick successfully defeated Henman, Ljubicic, Saleta, Maris and Shaken all the way, and defeated nalbandian in the semi-final. Finally, after his perfect performance in the final, a star lit up. In the next 10 years, his name will also be with Ferrero, Federer and Hugh. In order to create another era of men's tennis, he has achieved his second goal at the Houston Masters Cup, becoming another American tennis player who won the first honor in the world at the end of the year. What's his next goal? At present, what we can foresee is that he will stand in Melbourne again and work hard for the dream of winning the Australian Open that failed to be realized last year. Let's cheer for Andy!
Roddick really tried his best, but the technical gap with Federer still made it difficult for him to shake the humiliating hegemony established by the Swiss king at new york's doorstep. Agassi, now Roddick. America's own idol still failed to let the Swiss Express occupy the "Empire State Building" in the backyard with any signs of collapse. On the contrary, the cruel reality of the growing gap between ability and self-confidence has been raised to a worrying height.
After 10 losing streak, Andy's unhealed wound added another scar. We don't know whether he felt helpless, depressed or lamented after the game, but judging from the slightly serious expressions of his coaches Jimmy Connors and Agassi, the two superstars who came to watch the game, it is obvious that they have already taken pity on the road that Roddick should choose next.
Considering the obvious gap between the two men in the offensive and defensive strength and stability of the bottom line, Roddick, as always, positioned the breakthrough to win the game on the serve strategy of taking the ball to the internet, tried to find a good opportunity for himself to serve the internet strongly, and continued to put pressure on Federer who kept the bottom line, so he also firmly implemented this tactic in serving. Of course, judging from the fierce battles in the first two sets, Connors instilled this strategy into Roddick, effectively restrained Federer's arbitrary transfer advantage at the baseline with a fairly high success rate, and forced Federer to improve the quality and angle of the return ball when receiving the opponent's quick serve, so as to counter Roddick's forced sideways and hit the fierce momentum of the precise landing offensive with his trademark forehand. Similarly, in the face of the continuous oppression exerted by Roddick's quick rush to the net, Federer must also play a higher quality cross to break his passivity in defensive posture.
However, Roddick's imitation of Sampras' gourd-shaped serve has its fatal defects, that is, Andy's fatal weakness in backhand position, the feeling of volley in front of the net and the comprehensive application ability of various techniques still need to be trained and strengthened. In the game, we can often see that Federer basically focuses on Roddick's backhand position. On the one hand, it will prevent him from using a strong forehand to attack sideways, on the other hand, Andy, who is not skilled in backhand, can hardly continue his previous dominant position of fast serve, because usually the latter can only make defensive transition of soft power and diagonal return in backhand position, and so on. The dominant position of attack will be taken away by Federer in an instant, and the ball king with super ability to interpret the game will naturally not miss the opportunity. After two or three consecutive large-angle adjustments, this contention can be easily solved, which is also the direct reason why the two men are similar in active scoring statistics, but Roddick only relies on beautiful ACE and serve to score directly, while Federer is completely dominant in multi-beat sports warfare.
Secondly, Roddick's volley technique in front of the net is also rough, which is far from Sampras and others, including the timing of touching the net with the ball, the selection of the position in front of the net, the feel of volley and the prediction of Federer's cross route, and there is still much room for improvement. For example, in the choice of the timing in front of the net, Roddick's handling is a bit rash, and the deep cut ball is basically sent to Federer's backhand position, but he doesn't know that the ball king who is waiting in the same place has adjusted the rhythm and can win it with only a backhand blow; In addition, when Roddick crosses Federer's ball in front of the net, the control of racket face, strength and angle is slightly poor. For example, Roddick was passive in the application of prediction and interception technology when dealing with roger federer's repeated straight-line semi-high topspin and diagonal downspin. The ball either whizzed past and landed at his feet and could not bounce hard, or cut the ball out of bounds directly by controlling the racket face to rotate too much.
Of course, with Connors' teaching and help, Roddick has made some changes in the necessary stage of "paying tuition", which is already a gratifying self-adjustment, but the net barrier between Federer is too strong and comprehensive. Whether Andy can reproduce Sampras-style brilliance and strength in the future depends on fate, because at least from the current situation, he still has many links to improve in the short term, and Federer, who stays at the same level, is still there.
On July 5th, 2009, Roddick met Federer for the third time in the final of Wimbledon after he eliminated favorite Andy Murray in the semi-final. The competition attracted celebrities from all walks of life, including Sampras, Bjorberg, Barak and former US Secretary of State Kissinger. This is not only because if Federer wins this Wimbledon championship, he will break Sampras' record of 65,438+04 Grand Slam champion and regain the number one position in the world, but also because Andy made great progress in the first half of 2009 under the leadership of famous coach Stefanki after being addicted last year. The clay court French Open, which is the least good at it, has also entered the top 16, creating the best record in the career French Open. Although he had an embarrassing record of 2 wins 18 losses against Federer, Roddick, who was reborn in 2009, also expressed the hope that Federer would break Sampras' record and "postpone it to another Grand Slam".
The twists and turns of the game finally failed to live up to the high expectations of the outside world. Andy gave full play to his strongest strength in the first two sets. He not only won the first set with a 7-5 lead, but also held four counts in the deciding game of the second set. It was at this time that the game took a turning point. Andy lost three points in a row. In the face of the last count, Andy served Federer from the outside corner, and Federer barely saved the ball. Andy rushed to the front of the net, but he issued a high pressure that was almost impossible to lose. Federer won the second set by chasing two points in a row. After that, Andy's morale dropped slightly (even at the beginning of the third set, he mistakenly walked to Federer's court), lost the tiebreak in the third set and pulled back 6-3 in the fourth set. After a fierce battle of 30 games in the deciding set, he won the runner-up again with 14- 16. The media called it a sequel to last year's epic confrontation with Fener, which was shorter but more exciting. 4 hours, 19 minutes, ***77 games, 30 games in the deciding set. Behind the horrible data is Roddick's calmness when facing Federer. A great transformation that dares to fight and fight. Although Andy lost the game in the end, it also made people see the hope of his re-emergence. Andy's backhand and net-front skills, which have always been criticized, not only did not make too many mistakes in the semi-finals and finals, but even often scored winning points. Powerful serve uses more chasing lines, which often easily resolves the crisis when facing the break point. However, the psychological problem of rashness disappeared before. Even after losing the second set unexpectedly, Federer only grabbed a serve from Andy.
After the game, Andy still maintained his usual humor. He said to Sampras, "I'm sorry, Pete, but I did my best!" " "Roddick finally failed to stop Federer's footsteps and unfortunately won the runner-up again at Wimbledon. However, the media spoke highly of him, even saying that it was a game without losers, and predicted that Andy would have a good performance in the next US Open, especially now that Djoko is in a poor state, Nadal's knee injury has not healed, and Roddick has become the best candidate to challenge the Big Four, although his points still lag behind Delporte. However, in the final, Roddick saved the ball and fell down several times. Although he said there was nothing serious at the time, after the game, the examination showed that his right hip flexor was injured, and Andy decided to quit the Davis Cup.