{"id":198831,"date":"2025-06-20T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198831\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:31:11","slug":"jannik-sinners-coach-shares-what-andre-agassi-told-him-about-andy-roddick-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198831\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner’s coach shares what Andre Agassi told him about Andy Roddick in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andre Agassi might have only won eight Grand Slam titles, but he remains one of the most talented players to ever grace a tennis court. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The American player might not be considered in the same bracket as Roger Federer<\/a>, Rafael Nadal<\/a> or Novak Djokovic<\/a> when it comes to major honours, but for popularity with fans, he\u2019s right up there. <\/p>\n

Agassi<\/a> is a legendary figure of the sport of tennis, and had Pete Sampras<\/a> not lived in the same sporting era, he\u2019d have won many more Grand Slam titles. <\/p>\n

Darren Cahill is a man who knows Agassi very well, having coached him, and he\u2019s recalled a particular time when the American came up against a young Andy Roddick<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"ArthurPhoto by Cynthia Lum\/Getty ImagesCahill shares what Agassi told him about Roddick<\/p>\n

This story is quite amusing and showcases how Agassi kept himself ready to play against the tour\u2019s younger players, even when his career was drawing to a close. <\/p>\n

The game came on a hard surface in San Jose, and Agassi absolutely thrashed Roddick, yet he\u2019d called it before the game. <\/p>\n

Roddick remembers it well, and on the Served podcast, the conversation turned towards the beatdown for the American in 2002, and it went as follows: <\/p>\n

Cahill: \u201cSo, the first six weeks that I spent with Andre, I remember he played you (Roddick) in one of those tournaments as well and San Jose. So I just started in 2002. We did a trial for six weeks. I didn\u2019t tell him anything for six weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, like asking questions. I got to know him. I tried to get a feel for how he saw the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a great story about you. So clearly, he brought me in to give a bit of insight. Also about Lleyton Hewitt.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Lleyton was number one in the world at that point, and he figured that if he was ever going to win a major again, he would have to go through Hewitt at some stage. So he wanted to see tennis through his eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we spent a lot of time talking about Lleyton, of course, but I have a story about you because I think we played in the San Jose quarter-finals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roddick: \u201cIt was a beating. He beat me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cahill: \u201cWhen we talked about his first two opponents, we did a bit of game planning and talked about it. We wouldn\u2019t go too deep.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then on the car ride to San Jose, it was a one-car ride, I brought up the conversation about you, and I said, \u2018All right, we\u2019ve got Andy Roddick now. Let\u2019s talk it out in his game.\u2019 He said, \u2018It\u2019s OK. I got this one covered.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I said, really? There\u2019s a lot to know about Andy. You play at him. I\u2019m not sure if you\u2019d lost to him, if you\u2019d beaten him at that point or whatever. goes no, here, what\u2019s going to happen. Andy\u2019s gonna hit me with this cheesy little wide first of the match because he wants the other to get away with it. And I\u2019m gonna step over there and I\u2019m gonna thump this forehand a million miles an hour and scare the life out of him so he never hits that again through entire match and I want him hitting it down the middle of the court to my back because I don\u2019t want to have to be broken open in the court, so he\u2019s going then go down the middle on the deuce court every single time because he\u2019s going to be scared of that cheesy wide serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I\u2019m going to get him in the point and hopefully find his backhand, and even sneak into the net a little bit. No, I got this one covered, so we\u2019re good. And then it was like three and one.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how great and deep his mind is. He knew exactly how that match was going to play out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Andy Roddick vs Andre Agassi head-to-head<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bit of a travesty that Roddick only managed to win one Grand Slam title in 2003 at the US Open. <\/p>\n

He was extremely unlucky at Wimbledon and lost in three finals at that event, all to Roger Federer. <\/p>\n

His record against Agassi was pretty abysmal, too, with Roddick winning just one of the pair\u2019s six meetings across their careers. <\/p>\n\nYear<\/td>\nTournament<\/td>\nWinner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2000<\/td>\nCincinnati Open<\/td>\nAndre Agassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2000<\/td>\nQueen\u2019s<\/td>\nAndy Roddick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2002<\/td>\nHouston Open<\/td>\nAndre Agassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2003<\/td>\nSan Jose Open<\/td>\nAndre Agassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2003<\/td>\nWashington Open<\/td>\nAndre Agassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2004<\/td>\nMiami Open<\/td>\nAndre Agassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Andre Agassi vs Andy Roddick h2h<\/p>\n

Still, both players go down as fierce competitors who gave everything for their country and strived daily to be the very best that they could be. <\/p>\n

Roddick is now a brilliant tennis pundit, whilst Agassi would be wise to stick with the media stuff as he delivered some brilliant analysis during the recent French Open. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Agassi might have only won eight Grand Slam titles, but he remains one of the most talented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[38012,4294,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-198831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andre-agassi","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114713584305359799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}