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| Nickname: | A-Rod, Little Roddick and Dumbo | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: |  The United States
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| Birthday: | 30th of August, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 187 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 89 kg | ||||||||||||
| 1. Professional season: | IN 2000 | ||||||||||||
| Play hand: | On the right, ambidextrous backhand | ||||||||||||
| Trainer: | Larry Stefanki | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | 18.409.800 US dollar | ||||||||||||
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| Career balance: | 536:169 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 29 | ||||||||||||
| The highest order: | 1 (3rd of November, 2003) | ||||||||||||
| Topical order: | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Weeks as No. 1: | 13 weeks | ||||||||||||
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| Career balance: | 59:41 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 4 | ||||||||||||
| The highest order: | 50 (11th of January, 2010) | ||||||||||||
| Topical order: | 149 | ||||||||||||
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| The last actualisation of the info box: 14th of June, 2010 | |||||||||||||
Andrew Stephen Roddick (* 30th of August IN 1982 in Omaha, Nebraska) is US-American Tennis player.
His father Jerry is an investor, his mother Blanche is a manager of the Andy's Roddick foundation. His brother John pursues a tennis academy in Austin, Texas; the oldest brother, Lawrence, also works in Austin as a chiropractor.
Roddick plays primarily with strong forehand and tries to run around his a little weaker backhand. With his forehand he achieves a lot of profit beating, nevertheless, his biggest strength is his impact. Roddick holds the record for the quickest tennis impact (249.4 km/h). Moreover, he owns qualities as an entertainer what is to be experienced of the more often in interviews and press conferences.
Till 2004 Roddick was coached by Brad Gilbert, then he worked with the Davis's Cup trainer Dean Goldfine. From 2006 till March, 2008 he was examined by Jimmy Connors. In November, 2008 he engaged as a new trainer Larry Stefanki. [1)]
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Tennis career
Beginning of the professional career till 2004
Roddick began his professional career at the age of 18 years in 2000 and finished the year as the latest player in the top 200 of the ATP. He finished the next 2001 already in the top 20. In 2003 he won with the US Open his first Grand Slam title. In the same year Roddick (at the age of 21 years and 2 months) as the latest American stated for the first time the tennis world rankings and as the third-latest player (to Lleyton Hewitt at the age of 20 years and 8 months and Marat Safin at the age of 20 years and 10 months) generally.
In 2004 joined Roddick to the US-American Davis's Cup team with which he reached Bob and Mike Bryan the finale beside Mardy Fish and the double players, then lost, nevertheless, against the Spanish team. In 2004 Andy Roddick reached the finale in Wimbledon. Indeed, he had to be there to the Swiss Roger Federer hit.
The years 2005 and 2006
2005 began for Andy Roddick with a half final participation with the Australian Open. Shortly after a tournament victory followed in SAP Open in San José (California). Still in the same year he won with victories in Houston, Queen's club, Washington and Lyons four other tournaments. However, on himself carefully he also made in the Grand Prix tournament in Rome when he with own match point a faulty referee's decision which would have brought him the victory corrected and afterwards, nevertheless, still lost and in third round retired. This has put down to him the entry into the management literature (Stephen M. R. Covey "quickness by trust p. 74f); the author speaks of a symbol for integrity and calls the process "Roddick Choice".
2006 started for Roddick not completely so well like the year before. With the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open, he still reached the round of the last sixteen. However, after one First rounds-from with the French Open Andy Roddick came out in Wimbledon where he had still reached the finale, not about the third round in the year before. Also a tournament victory kept waiting up to that time. Nevertheless, in the same year he succeeded in getting his compatriot Jimmy Connors, one of the biggest tennis players of all times, as an adviser in his team.
20th of August, 2006 Roddick hit Juan Carlos Ferrero with 6:3 6:4 in the finale of Cincinnati (master Series) and won with it his first title of the year. Only few weeks later, on the 10th of September, 2006, he stood in the finale of the US Open. Before home scenery had to be Roddick, nevertheless, in four sentences once more to the world's number one tennis player Roger Federer hit.
2007
2007 began for Andy Roddick with a very good start. During the preparatory tournament Kooyong Classics before the Australian Open he hit in final Roger Federer, the number 1 of the world in the tennis sport. Also in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year Roddick started very promising. In the 3rd round he defeated the secret favorite Marat Safin in four sentences. Then he hit the Croatian standing at the ninth place Mario Anči ć. In the semi-final it came to a new edition of the finale of Kooyong. However, what had begun so promisingly, developed increasingly to a nightmare. Federer which had remained up to this time without loss of a set confirmed, finally, his flawless balance and hit Roddick clearly in 3 sentences.
After a moderate sandy place season Roddick won the tournament in the Queen's club at the outset of the lawn season for the fourth time. In Wimbledon he reached the quarterfinal, was defeated there, nevertheless, against Richard Gasquet in five sentences. Then at the beginning of August Roddick won the tournament of Washington. With the master Series in Montreal he was defeated in the quarterfinal against the later winner of the tournament Novak Đokovi ć in just two sentences. One week later Andy Roddick could also not defend the title in Cincinnati (master Series) and lost in the round of the last sixteen against the Spaniard David Ferrer with 6:7 (4:7) and 4:6. With the US Open he was defeated in the quarterfinal once more against Roger Federer in 3 sentences with 6:7, 6:7 and 2:6.
At the end of the year Roddick the realisation one of his biggest aims succeeded: Together with James Blake and the world-best players in the duplicate, Bob and Mike Bryan, he got after a 4:1 success against titleholders Russia Davis Cup. After Roddick had won his singles against Dmitry Tursunov with 6:4, 6:4, 6:2 before home audience in Portland, he renounced an other play application, because the USA lay at that time with 3:0 already uneinholbar in guidance.
2008
The start in 2008 ran for Roddick first not by wish. With the Australian Open he had to be in the third round to the German Philipp Kohlschreiber in five sentences hit. However, after a hard won success about Jürgen Melzer in the opening match of Davis Cup-Duells between Austria and the USA Roddick could gain two title profits with three tournament participation: In San José as well as in Dubai after victories over Rafael Nadal and Novak Đokovi ć. With two tournament victories till the beginning of March he had managed with it the best seasonal start of his career. Nevertheless, during the tournament in Dubai he announced the separation of his responsible person Jimmy Connors.
With the following master standard tournament in Indian Wells he failed in his prelude play against Tommy Haas. The American could win back afterwards, however, with the achievement of the Halbfinals with the masters to standard tournaments in Miami as well as in Rome again his usual form. In Miami he defeated in the quarterfinal Roger Federer with 7:6, 4:6, 6:3 against whom he had lost before eleven times in succession. A shoulder injury threw back him afterwards, nevertheless, again and prevented his starting with the French Open.
After he could not defend his title in the Queen's club (because of From in the semi-final against Rafael Nadal), Roddick suffered a bitter second round defeat against the Serbian Janko Tipsarevi ć (6:7, 7:5, 6:4, 7:6) in Wimbledon. At such an early time the American had never retired in this tournament before. To be able to prepare in rest for the US Open, he renounced a participation in the Olympic games in Peking and reached during this time, instead, the finale from Los Angeles where he was defeated against the ambitious Argentine Juan Martín del Potro. Finally, with the US Open he came to the quarterfinal which he lost against the number 3 of the world rankings, Novak Djokovic, with 2:6, 3:6, 6:3, 6:7 (5). Shortly after one succeeded Roddick in getting the third title of the season and the a total of 26th title of his career in Peking against Dudi Sela.
2009
In February, 2009 Roddick thereby drew the attention to itself that he called off his participation in the ATP tournament in Dubai as a titleholder because the Israeli player Shahar Peer received no entry visa for the Arabian country and he is to the view, „that sport and politics in this manner do not mix“ had to go. He reached [2] with the Australian Open the semi-final which he lost, however, flatly in three sentences against Roger Federer. Now shortly after vanquished Roddick Radek Š těpánek with 7:5 and 7:5 in the finale of Memphis and won for the second time the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships.
In Wimbledon Andy Roddick struggled by victories over Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Murray till the finale before and hit there once more on Roger Federer. In a hard fought and long time open match he was defeated Federer after more than four hours, finally, with 7:5, 6:7, 6:7, 6:3 and 14:16.
2010
2010 began for Roddick with the tournament success about Radek Š těpánek in Brisbane. With the Australian Open Roddick retired in a scanty five-sentence match in the quarterfinal against Marine Čili ć. In February achieved Roddick the finale in San José and was defeated there Fernando Verdasco. With the Indian Wells of master he reached for the first time since his victory in Cincinnati in August, 2006 again the finale of a master tournament. He was defeated there, nevertheless, Ivan Ljubiči ć 6:7, 6:7. In the directly following master in Miami he reached once more the finale and vanquished Tomá š Berdych with 7:5, 6:4. With it he achieved his victory fifth all together in a tournament of the master category and caught up with player like Boris Becker, Gustavo Kürten and Jim Courier.
Play manner
Roddicks strengths are his impact, hardest in the professional tennis, as well as his forehand. His play is aimed at quick point profits and he mostly operates from the base line. As weak spots of his play are looked by nearly all experts his Volleyspiel as well as his backhand.
Success
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Singles
Victories (29)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Layer | Final opponent | Final result |
| 1. | 23rd of April, 2001 | Atlanta | Sand | .svg/20px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Xavier Malisse
| 6:2, 6:4 |
| 2. | 30th of April, 2001 | Houston (1) | Sand |  Hyung-Taik Lee
| 7:5, 6:3 |
| 3. | 13th of August, 2001 | Washington D.C. (1) | Hard place |  Sjeng to rogues
| 6:2, 6:3 |
| 4. | 18th of February, 2002 | Memphis (1) | Hard place | James Blake
| 6:4, 3:6, 7:5 |
| 5. | 22nd of April, 2002 | Houston (2) | Sand | Pete Sampras
| 7:6, 6:3 |
| 6. | 19th of May, 2003 |  St. Pölten | Sand |  Nikolai Dawydenko
| 6:3, 6:2 |
| 7. | 9th of June, 2003 |  Queen's of club (1) | Race |  Sébastien Grosjean | 6:3, 6:3 |
| 8. | 21st of July, 2003 | Indianapolis (1) | Hard place |  Paradorn Srichaphan
| 7:6, 6:4 |
| 9. | 4th of August, 2003 |  Montreal | Hard place |  David Nalbandian
| 6:1, 6:3 |
| 10. | 11th of August, 2003 | Cincinnati (1) | Hard place | Mardy Fish
| 4:6, 7:6, 7:6 |
| 11. | 25th of August, 2003 | The US Open | Hard place |  Juan Carlos Ferrero
| 6:3, 7:6, 6:3 |
| 12. | 9th of February, 2004 | San José (1) | Hard place | Mardy Fish | 7:6, 6:4 |
| 13. | 22nd of March, 2004 | Miami | Hard place | Guillermo Coria
| 6:7, 6:3, 6:1, aufg. |
| 14. | 7th of June, 2004 | Queen's of club (2) | Race |  Sébastien Grosjean | 7:6, 6:4 |
| 15. | 19th of July, 2004 | Indianapolis (2) | Hard place |  Nicolas Kiefer
| 6:2, 6:3 |
| 16. | 7th of February, 2005 | San José (2) | Hard place | Cyril Saulnier | 6:0, 6:4 |
| 17. | 18th of April, 2005 | Houston (3) | Sand | Sébastien Grosjean | 6:2, 6:2 |
| 18. | 6th of June, 2005 | Queen's of club (3) | Race |  Ivo Karlovi ć | 7:6, 7:6 |
| 19. | 1st of August, 2005 | Washington D.C. (2) | Hard place | James Blake
| 7:5, 6:3 |
| 20. | 24th of October, 2005 | Lyons | Carpet | Gaël Monfils | 6:3, 6:2 |
| 21. | 14th of August, 2006 | Cincinnati (2) | Hard place | Juan Carlos Ferrero | 6:3, 6:4 |
| 22. | 11th of June, 2007 | Queen's of club (4) | Race | Nicolas Mahut
| 4:6, 7:6, 7:6 |
| 23. | 29th of July, 2007 | Washington D.C. (3) | Hard place | John Isner
| 6:4, 7:6 |
| 24. | 18th of February, 2008 | San José (3) | Hard place |  Radek Š těpánek | 6:4, 7:5 |
| 25. | 3rd of March, 2008 |  Dubai | Hard place | Feliciano López | 6:7, 6:4, 6:2 |
| 26. | 22nd of September, 2008 |  Peking | Hard place |  Dudi Sela
| 6:4, 6:7, 6:3 |
| 27. | 22nd of February, 2009 | Memphis (2) | Hard place |  Radek Š těpánek | 7:5 7:5 |
| 28. | 10th of January, 2010 |  Brisbane | Hard place | Radek Š těpánek | 7:62, 7:67 |
| 29. | 4th of April, 2010 | Miami | Hard place | Tomá š Berdych | 7:5 6:4 |
Final participation
| No. | Date | Tournament | Layer | Final opponent | Final result |
| 1. | 5th of August, 2002 | Toronto | Hard place | Guillermo Cañas | 4:6, 5:7 |
| 2. | 24th of February, 2003 | Memphis | Hard place (i) | Taylor Dent | 1:6, 4:6 |
| 3. | 28th of April, 2003 | Houston | Sand | Andre Agassi | 6:3, 3:6, 4:6 |
| 4. | 19th of April, 2004 | Houston | Sand |  Tommy Haas | 3:6, 4:6 |
| 5. | 4th of July, 2004 | Wimbledon | Race |  Roger Federer | 6:4, 5:7, 6:73, 4:6 |
| 6. | 2nd of August, 2004 | Toronto | Hard place | Roger Federer | 5:7, 3:6 |
| 7. | 4th of October, 2004 | Bangkok | Hard place (i) | Roger Federer | 4:6, 0:6 |
| 8. | 3rd of July, 2005 | Wimbledon of | Race | Roger Federer | 2:6, 6:72, 4:6 |
| 9. | 22nd of August, 2005 | Cincinnati | Hard place | Roger Federer | 3:6, 5:7 |
| 10. | 24th of July, 2006 | Indianapolis | Hard place | James Blake | 6:4, 4:6, 6:75 |
| 11. | 11th of September, 2006 | The US Open | Hard place | Roger Federer | 2:6, 6:4, 5:7, 1:6 |
| 12. | 25th of February, 2007 | Memphis | Hard place (i) | Tommy Haas | 3:6, 2:6 |
| 13. | 10th of August, 2008 | Los Angeles | Hard place | Juan Martín del Potro | 1:6, 6:72 |
| 14. | 10th of January, 2009 |  Doha | Hard place | Andy Murray | 2:6, 4:6 |
| 15. | 5th of July, 2009 | Wimbledon of | Race | Roger Federer | 7:5, 6:76, 6:75, 6:3, 14:16 |
| 16. | 9th of August, 2009 | Washington D.C. | Hard place | Juan Martín del Potro | 6:3, 5:7, 6:76 |
| 17. | 14th of February, 2010 | San José | Hard place | Fernando Verdasco | 6:3, 6:4, 6:4 |
| 18. | 21st of March, 2010 | Indian Wells | Hard place |  Ivan Ljubiči ć | 6:73, 6:75 |
Duplicate
Victories
| No. | Date | Tournament | Layer | Partner | Final opponent | Final result |
| 1. | 12th of March, 2001 | Delray Beach | Hard place | Jan Michael Gambill |  Thomas Shimada  Myles Wakefield | 6:3, 6:4 |
| 2. | 29th of April, 2002 | Houston | Sand | Mardy Fish | Jan Michael Gambill Gray Don Oliver | 6:4, 6:4 |
| 3. | 24th of July, 2006 | Indianapolis | Hard place | Bobby Reynolds | Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas | 6:4, 6:4 |
| 4. | 21st of March, 2009 | Indian Wells | Hard | Mardy Fish |  Max Mirny  Andy Ram | 3:6, 6:1, [14:12] |
Final participation
| No. | Date | Tournament | Layer | Partner | Final opponent | Final result |
| 1. | 30th of July, 2001 | Los Angeles | Hard place | Jan Michael Gambill | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | 5:7, 6:76 |
| 2. | 12th of January, 2004 | Doha | Hard place | Stefan Koubek | Martin dam Cyril Suk | 2:6, 4:6 |
| 3. | 11th of October, 2009 | Peking | Hard place |  Mark Knowles | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | 4:6, 2:6 |
Achievements – overview
| Tournament ¹ | IN 2010 | IN 2009 | IN 2008 | IN 2007 | IN 2006 | IN 2005 | IN 2004 | IN 2003 | IN 2002 | IN 2001 | IN 2000 | Whole |
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| Australian Open | VF | HF | 3R | HF | AF | HF | VF | HF | 2R | - | - | 0 |
| Roland Garros | 3R | AF | - | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 3R | - | 0 |
| Wimbledon | AND THE FOLLOWING | 2R | VF | 3R | AND THE FOLLOWING | AND THE FOLLOWING | HF | 3R | 3R | - | 0 | |
| The US Open | 3R | VF | VF | AND THE FOLLOWING | 1R | VF | SEE | VF | VF | 1R | 1 | |
| Tennis masters cup | RR | HF | RR | - | HF | HF | - | - | - | 0 | ||
| Played tournaments | (10) | 19 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 146 | |
| Achieved Finals | (3) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 38 | |
| Won titles | (1) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 25 | |
| Hard place Victory / defeat | 26:5 | 20:4 | 38:11 | 37:12 | 30:9 | 57:11 | 44:10 | 34:11 | 23:10 | 4:5 | 333:96 | |
| Race victory / defeat | 9:2 | 3:1 | 9:1 | 7:2 | 11:1 | 11:1 | 10:1 | 4:2 | 5:3 | 0:0 | 69:15 | |
| Carpet victory / defeat | 0:0 | 0:0 | 2:1 | 0:0 | 8:1 | 1:1 | 6:2 | 4:2 | 2:2 | 0:0 | 23:9 | |
| Sand victory / defeat | 4:2 | 3:1 | 5:3 | 5:6 | 10:3 | 5:5 | 12:6 | 14:7 | 12:1 | 0:0 | 71:36 | |
| Whole victory / defeat | 39:9 | 26:6 | 54:16 | 49:20 | 59:14 | 74:18 | 72:19 | 56:22 | 42:16 | 4:5 | 498:157 | |
| ATP Race points | -² | 233 | 506 | 463 | 436 | 731 | 907 | 409 | 303 | 18 | ||
| Position in the end of the year | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 160 |
¹ tournament results mean in clips that the player has not finished the tournament yet and indicates his topical tournament status. After the tournament end for the player the bracketing is removed.
² The ATP Race was abolished on 2009
Web links
Commons: Andy Roddick – collection of pictures, videos and audiofiles- ATP profile of Andy Roddick (in English)
- ITF profile of Andy Roddick (in English)
- Davis's Cup statistics of Andy Roddick (in English)
- Official homepage (in English)
Single proofs
- ↑ new coach for US star Andy Roddick sport.orf.at, 21st of November, 2008
- ↑ Roddick says in protest tournament from net newspaper, 21st of February, 2009
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| Personal data | |
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| NAME | Roddick, Andy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roddick, Andrew Stephen |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | US-American tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 30th of August, 1982 |
| BIRTHPLACE | Omaha, Nebraska, the USA |
