Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters recap the 2024 US Open all the way from the incredible victories of Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, the deep American runs from Taylor Fritz, Jessica Pegula, and Frances Tiafoe, and what this tournament showed us form players like Naomi Osaka and Calros Alcaraz. Andy and Kim also discuss the intense tennis schedule, what it does to players, and how it could get fixed.
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0:00 Welcome to Served
3:29 Kim’s daughter’s return to the US Open
11:30 2024 US Open Women’s final recap
38:29 Thoughts on WTA players post-US Open
57:23 2024 US Open Men’s final recap
1:10:25 American Men’s Tennis
1:21:13 The problem with the current tennis schedule
21 Comments
I've been waiting for this "podcast" like crazy
Raducanu not wanting to play qualies is pure entitlement. There ain’t no other way around it. She thinks she’s too good, when in reality she’s very close to being a blip on a radar as a one slam wonder
What's the point of having a guest on if you're going to interrupt them?
i love those comments how it actualy looks live compare to tv, as also technical parts like movement etc. The best podcast for inside content of proffesional tenis.
Look out for Sonay Kartal.
love you guys, love Kim, she's so nice for players, so understanding and agree with Andy on scheduling !!!
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Junky Sinner is the best!!! 💉💪
I love this pod I love Kim! You’re all right too Andy haha keep up the amazing work guys
Mr. Roddick and Mrs. Clijsters, I’ll comment on the Raducanu segment. A lot of people including you are too pressed about Raducanu playing qualifiers for events. I’ll first cite the most recent cases in Cincinnati and Toronto. For Toronto which she was scheduled to play in, the turnover from DC to Toronto was very quick so no real time for her to acclimatize to the conditions. Then we went to Cincinnati, she didn’t make the initial cutoff for them ( rank 94, cutoff 72), and by the time she was in DC quarters, no withdrawals had happened. It wasn’t until a few days before the Cincinnati qualifiers that mass withdrawals happened. Then we go back to the case of the French Open where she withdrew from the qualifiers she said it was to set up her grass swing and it paid off. Back to her US Open preparation if the problem was a lack of match play I believe she should have possibly played in Cleveland or Monterrey the week before the US Open.
I feel pretty good about my picks on the men's side. I picked Sinner for the Aussie and US Open, and Alcaraz for Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Here' s to a repeat next year and to the changing of the guard in men's tennis! Love the show. Please bring Kim back more often. I miss her in the game.🎉♥🎾🎾🎾🎾
Andy, with all due respect, it’s surely weird that such an amazing firepower as America’a lineup is second to small European individuals that are dictating the future of tennis.
It’s not the grits, it’s non the willpower, but it’s gotta be something in the process…
Just like we experienced last year with the actors and the writer strike and the screen actors guild strike.
There needs to be a players union, because the problem is you have anybody out of the top 100 they need those tournaments they may enter 21 tournaments a year and they barely get by. Carlos Alcaraz played more tennis from May through September then I've ever seen from another human being he just got done Davis cop singles and doubles. No he won two Grand slams and went to the Olympics and play the US Open he has a right to be tired but the guy who lost first round and then skipped a tournament because of injury wink wink He's going to have a very different view of it.
They need to have the successful players put a fund so everybody can strike and they can limit the amount of tournaments they play and that fund can support the lower ranked players like the screen actors guild is until there is a collective bargaining agreement that you don't have to play until your half dead.
Novak and Carlos wanted to win a gold medal and it cost them the US Open and it shouldn't be that way.
No offense to Taylor Fritz but he's not a champion and he never will be we deserved a better match.
Served is a REFERENCE if you want inside thoughts/considerations/opinions on the current tennis world. I enjoy all the episodes 🥂👍💪
About Taylor and the pressure of having an American player winning a Slam again. It was so evident during the ceremony that the pressure generated by this was on him during the match, saying to be sorry for not winning and to try again next year. This is something SO bad for players… it's the kind of pressure that hit Novak when he lost to Danil for the Grand Slam
Kim is amazed by Sinner’s last few months. 👀
WHAT 16 YEARS OLD DAUGHTER! Loved Kim Clijsters
I first saw Andy Roddick from the coverage of the US Clay Court championships at the Westside Tennis Club in Houston, TX in 2001. Back then they had Jan-Michael Gambil's bare chest on all the TV ads and practice footage. JMG was 1st seed, but Andy won the tourney. This particular mic really works well with Andy's voice. sorry, I'm a recording nerd.
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Loved the podcast but please don't overlook Paolini. She has brought a lot of joy to the tennis fans this year. We want to hear more about her please.
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