Biography
Professional American tennis player Andy Roddick has become different in sports from youthful years. And Misiroval, reinforced his success, as well as natural charisma, perseverance and zeal, he became a real star of modern tennis. This is confirmed by the numerous world champion titles in single and paired discharges.Childhood and youth
The biography of the athlete began at the end of the summer of 1982 in Nebraska, the United States, where he was born and conducted childhood. The mother worked at the school teacher, his father was an investor. Andy brought up with two senior brothers. He began to get involved in sports from an early age, played at the school for the local basketball team.
Personal life
Before focusing on a serious relationship, Roddick was seen in several novels with prominent girls. At different periods of time, these were Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova and Singer Mandy Moore.In 2009, the athlete's wife became an actress and model Brooklyn Decker. Their joint personal life began a couple of years before this event. Roddick saw a girl on TV in one American show and fell in love. He found the phone of her agent and prescribed a decker first date. Now they live happily in Texas and raise two children.
Tennis
Over time, Roddick became interested in tennis, first performed at the Junior level, and in 2000 he won the open championship of Australia and the US Open Championship in a single discharge. At the same time, he switched to professionals and in February debuted at the AP-Tura competitions. But I could not take a victory then. Then he spoke in the "Masters" series and in tournaments in the "Challenger series" series, and graduated from the year by receiving two titles at these meetings with opponents.
2001 and 2002 passed for Andy at least successfully, he went to the quarterfinals in "Challenger" in Hawaii, hitting the ranking to the first hundred. Then at the tournaments APR beat Xavier Malissa and Lee Hyun Theka and perfectly performed at the open championship of France. The best season in the Roddick career is rightly called 2003.
At first he went to the semifinals of the Australian Open Championship, held a 5-hour match against UNness El Ainaui (this game became one of the most extended world tennis history) and defeated the opponent. True, already in the semifinals he could not beat Rainer of Sudtler, but soon the man was waiting for the victory over Nikolai Davydenko at the tournament in St. Peltten.
Embed from getty imagesA series of loud victories allowed Andy for the first time to compete for the title from a series of a big helmet, in the final he met with Juan Carlos Ferrero, who won the three sets and became the owner of the cherished title. Automatically he rose to the 2nd line in the world ranking, and then he headed this list at all and held out there for 13 weeks. At the beginning of the 2004 season, Roger Federer took his place.
In 2005, Roddick was waiting for the game in the semifinals of Australian Open, where he lost to Lleoth Hatto. Next year, the athlete replaced the coach, began to cooperate with Jimmy Connors. For this season he won only 1 tournament and descended on the 6th line of the ranking. Further in his career alternately were the victories, then defeat. The last year of the games was heavier than others, and in 2012 a man declared the termination of participation in competitions. For all the time speeches (781 game), he managed to make 9078 winning innings, ensuring a place in the history of tennis, since no longer showed such a planet tennis player.
Andy Roddick now
Although Andy no longer acts as a tennis player, he monitors other players and often comments on the events taking place in the sports world, shares forecasts regarding the upcoming games and makes bets on their favorites.Embed from getty imagesAnd in the summer of 2019, a man performed in the international hall of the Glory of Tennis, where his name was made back in 2017. In the said speech, the man thanked Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovich, Andy Marrey and Roger Federer for many years of rivalry and excellent games in the past.
Despite the departure from sports, Andy supported himself in shape, periodically visits training, with an increase in 188 cm its weight is 88 kg. The excellent figure of the former tennis player is clearly visible in the photo, which he places in the "Twitter" profile.
Sports achivments
- 2000 - Winner of Junior Australian Open and Junior US Open
- 2003 - the first racket of the world, the winner of the US Open in a single discharge, semi-finalist of the Australian Open Championship in a single discharge
- 2004-2005 - Finalist of the Wimbledon Tournament in a single category
- 2006 - the semi-finalist of the Australian Open Championship in a single discharge
- 2006 - Finalist US Open
- 2007 - Semifinalist of the Australian Open Championship in a single discharge, winner of the Davis Cup in the US team
- 2009 - Finalist Wimbledon Tournament in a single category, semifinalist of the Australian Open Championship in a single category