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While Roddick may aquit himself admirably on the tennis court, I personally think he's a poor ambassador for the sport (along with the Williams sisters) and shows a total lack of decorum in dealing with the press or the public. He's a cocky, inconsiderate b-----d who deserves every piece of humble pie Roger Federer has ever served him.
How about the economic literacy of James Blake? At least he attended Harvard.
From Roddick's interview last night:
Q. In baseball they have hitting coaches. In the NBA they'll have shooting specialists, free throw specialists. Why do you not see serving gurus in tennis?
ANDY RODDICK: Well, I feel like the team pays for the free throw specialist. You know where I'm going with this, right?
Q. It's a matter of economics?
ANDY RODDICK: Well, I mean, yeah. Let's be honest with ourselves for a second. If you're looking at making six figures a year, you're going to have to be in the top 80 as a tennis player. You have to pay for all your own expenses. You're not going to see that much.
I think you've seen kind of the precedent. I think Andy Murray hired Corretja for clay. You have to be making some bank in order to take on those expenses. We pay for all of our own stuff.
So I think that's probably the difference. We would probably all have everything if that was the case.
Imagine if politicians handled press conferences that way...
I know nothing about tennis or Roddick's attitude with the press, but I do know he performed admirably in a real life emergency.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1460812/Tennis-star-Roddick-saves-lives-in-Rome-fire.html
Two of the people he helped were my parents, who had to jump down a story to Roddick's balcony.