{"id":3918,"date":"2025-06-22T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3918\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:44:09","slug":"what-happened-when-serena-williams-faced-andy-roddick-in-a-match-when-they-were-both-around-10-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3918\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened when Serena Williams faced Andy Roddick in a match when they were both around 10 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the grass season approaches the Wimbledon championships, Serena Williams remains the last woman to win two consecutive singles titles at the All England Club. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Williams<\/a> won the tournament in 2015 and went back-to-back in 2016, when she won her 22nd Grand Slam, defeating Angelique Kerber in the final.<\/p>\n

The American finished her career with the joint-second most Wimbledon<\/a> titles of any woman in the Open Era, with seven, trailing only Martina Navratilova<\/a>, who won nine crowns in South West London.<\/p>\n

She retired in September 2022, finishing her playing career at the US Open that year, ending one of the greatest runs in tennis history. <\/p>\n

From an early age, Williams was destined for success, which former US Open champion Andy Roddick<\/a> noticed after playing a match against her when he was younger.<\/p>\n

\"SerenaPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesWhat happened when Serena Williams faced Andy Roddick<\/p>\n

When asked on Tennis Channel Live if Roddick had ever played Venus Williams<\/a> or Serena, he gave a surprising response.<\/p>\n

Roddick said: \u201cSo you ask that jokingly \u2013 I lost a practice set to Serena. We were at Macci\u2019s together.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy career record against Serena is 0-1. I lost a set 6-4 when we were like 10. We were pretty much the same age.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I was dodging raindrops, and at that age, she was already bench pressing dump trucks!\u201d<\/p>\n

The different winners at Wimbledon since Serena Williams went back-to-back in 2016<\/p>\n

Following Williams\u2019 back-to-back triumphs at Wimbledon in 2015 and 2016, there has been a different winner at the championships every year since then.<\/p>\n

The 2017 final featured a matchup between Venus Williams and Garbine Muguruza, in which the Spaniard came out on top. <\/p>\n

Serena returned to the final in the next two years, but lost to Kerber in 2018 and Simona Halep<\/a> in 2019. <\/p>\nYearWimbledon Champion<\/tr>\n\n2024<\/td>\nBarbora Krejcikova<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023<\/td>\nMarketa Vondrousova<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\nElena Rybakina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021<\/td>\nAshleigh Barty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2019<\/td>\nSimona Halep<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2018<\/td>\nAngelique Kerber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2017<\/td>\nGarbine Muguruza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

In 2021, the championship match was the first in five years without one of the Williams sisters and saw Ashleigh Barty overcome Karolina Pliskova. <\/p>\n

Elena Rybakina<\/a> emerged victorious in 2022 over Ons Jabeur, who reached the final again in 2023, losing once more to Marketa Vondrousova. <\/p>\n

Barbora Krejcikova, the defending champion, defeated Jasmine Paolini<\/a> last year to hold the trophy aloft on Centre Court. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the grass season approaches the Wimbledon championships, Serena Williams remains the last woman to win two consecutive…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1710,5224,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-3918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-roddick","9":"tag-serena-williams","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114724488071079461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}