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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