Reiter Than You: Andy Roddick

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear the entire episode, visit BillReiter.Substack.com.Andy Roddick spends an hour hanging out. We hit a lot of things – tennis talk, life talk, strategy, lessons learned over a Hall of Fame career. A few highlights:-Can anyone eventually challenge Alcaraz and Sinner-How to identify the next big things in tennis-Tennis tactics-Mental toughness-How Andy burned out on tennis, and then fell in love with it again a decade later-The time I insulted him, badly-A NSFW true story outside Andy’s old LA house-A practical joke I tried on Andy involving Roger Federer-The uniqueness of a tennis locker room-Advice to would-be tennis parents and players -Longevity in sports-Why greatness is different than longevity -Why he went with an independent tennis podcast over other opportunities -We re-visit an old bet involving a match where he’d use a frying pan-What he wishes he’d known about life and competition when he was a young tennis player