Andy Roddick Will Soon Know If He Was Right To Retire

Written by: Staff on 13th December 2012

Andy Roddick Will Soon Know If He Was Right To Retire

epa03385080 Andy Roddick of the US hits a return to Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina during their fourth round match on the tenth day of the 2012 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 05 September 2012. The US Open runs through Sunday 09 September 2012. EPA/LARRY W. SMITH |

Andy Roddick says he will only know in a few weeks if his August retirement from tennis was a wise choice as the 30-year-old goes through his first January in well over a decade without preparing for a trip to the Australian Open.

Since hanging up his racquet on his birthday, the Roddick retirement has left a gaping hole in US tennis hopes as the last local to win a Grand Slam (2003 US Open) gave away his career.

“To be honest, I don’t know that it will really affect me until January comes around,” Roddick told ESPN. “The last 13 Januarys I’ve been in Australia. I haven’t experienced January 8 in the United States for 15 years.

“You start to identify certain months with certain places, that’s where you are. … I wasn’t jealous of the guys going on a 15-hour flight to Shanghai [in October] or wherever else. Once I see the guys over [in Australia], obviously I’ll miss it a little bit.”

Roddick has been making the best of his self-chosen exile form the sport, intensively polishing his golf game as well as indulging in some of the foods which were off limits to him as a player during his career. He has kept up the charity work for his foundation.

Roddick said that golf is taking a stronger place in his new life. “I’ve played 50-60 rounds since the US Open. My game’s OK, but I look at things in the grand scheme of sports – someone who’s OK at golf.

“I imagine the guy playing next to me in some tennis center that I was judging and I think I’m that guy in golf now. I can hit the ball a little bit, but I definitely don’t want to say I’m any good at it at all.”

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