The Retired Roddick Doesn’t Seem Retired

Written by: Staff on 4th January 2013

The Retired Roddick Doesn’t Seem Retired

epa03385258 Andy Roddick of the US serves to Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina during his last service game in 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 match is Roddick's last as a singles tennis player as he had announced at the start of the US Open that he would retire whenever this US Open ended for him. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO |

Retirement apparently is not what is once was, with Andy Roddick traveling to South America for a few well-paid exhibition hits with Juan Del Potro.

The matches will serve as the bulk of the Australian Open preparation for Argentine Del Potro, who will make his final tune-up next week at the AAMI eight-man exhibition at Melbourne’s Kooyong club.

Roddick retired on his 30th birthday last autumn amid the heat of the US Open. But it hardly marked the last sighting of him on a tennis court. In the interim he’s padded his bank balance with a few hit-and-giggle outings in between rounds of golf and serial feasting on once-forbidden foods.

No. 7 Del Potro actually sent Roddick into retirement with his win over the American in the Open fourth round. The South American repeated that act as he beat the retiree in the first of two exhibition matches in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

The pair next head to Buenos Aires for another go before Del Potro departs for Melbourne for the Kooyong event also featuring Milos Raonic, Juan Monaco and Janko Tipsarevic.

©Daily tennis news wire

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