Topics: Tennis, Sports, Society & Culture
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The 2026 US. Open Draw Show.
**Techie Sean** (1:26)
Last draw show of the year.
**Andy Roddick** (1:28)
I'm excited and I fear slash hate these shows.
Why? Because I'm looking and it's like the first thing I see is Fees and Shelton. Who wants to make that choice right now?
**JW** (1:40)
Nobody.
They don't play each other. We'll be back in a week. We can do second serve.
**Andy Roddick** (1:45)
I don't, I know, but I don't want to pick. I don't want to say it.
**Mike** (1:49)
But you have to.
**JW** (1:50)
Exactly.
**Techie Sean** (1:51)
I know it's bullshit.
**Mike** (1:53)
But it's, you know, we can approach this either like me, and you just have some ridiculous algorithm that is just, my goal is to win this bracket challenge.
**Andy Roddick** (2:01)
No, your goal is just to like take all pressure off of yourself by saying it's the algorithm's fault.
**Mike** (2:06)
Yeah, I definitely will never admit it was me.
**JW** (2:08)
Yeah. Be this AI. We are, before we do the draw, I got to ask. We are about 48 hours removed from Roddick, Federer, the 40 somethings with multiple kids version. Yeah. How'd that go for you the other night?
**Andy Roddick** (2:21)
Okay. I had the most fun that someone could possibly have. I loved it. I was scared. I was nervous. I started hitting serves like I don't serve it all anymore because it hurts. It hurts.
So I went out of my Dingle's comfort zone, started hitting some serves, actually got PT for a month.
But we were talking in the training room before we went on, and Mac was in there. And this is the thing that I think I missed most from tour, is just the pure bullshit factor in the locker room, before you go out or before you're doing something, everyone's telling stories. And Fed was in there, and it's like our relationship is just plug and play the easiest one ever. Like no time has passed, fall in, start joking.
Zverev was in there, FAA was in there, Rude was in there for pieces, Mac was in there. And we were basically talking about how scared we were to play this thing, like we don't play tennis anymore and we're going out in front of 25,000 in a sellout and trying like not to suck. And so we started telling stories and it was like Sasha told the story about they were playing in Mexico City, him and Fed were on some like exhibition tour and Fed was like, oh, I was hitting forehands. I was turning forehands into souvenirs that night. Like I was shanking forehands into the stadium everywhere. And Sasha was like, yeah, we were, ideally it would have been good if we went three sets and I won the first set. And it was like, I was having to like, you couldn't make a ball and Fed's like, I couldn't make a ball. It was disgusting. It's like, it's funny hearing like the most accomplished players of all time. Max, like, I know, sometimes you get out there, Max, I saw Mac at, you know, he didn't come on until nine o'clock or something. He was there at like 430 and I see him, the first thing he says is like, he's like, how nervous are you?
**SPEAKER_1** (4:23)
I'm like, I'm pretty nervous.
**Andy Roddick** (4:24)
He's like, I'm freaking out, man. So it's like, it's so funny. You can have like the best players of all time who have been in these situations many times, but like when you don't do it, you can get exposed, right?
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