Three-time Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick hinted in an interview with Daily Mail that he might be playing on his last Wimbledon tournament, accepting the fact that he’s no longer at the peak of his career and that just like most of his peers, his body has been “banged up.”
“I can’t do what Rafa [Nadal] does with his racket, I can’t do what Roger does with his racket. I guess I have to believe my coach, Larry Stefanki, when he says I can’t run through walls any more. We’re trying to find the fine line and work against nature a little bit,” Roddick said in this interview.
Roddick, who made a first round exit at the Roland Garros 2012 tournament, will be taking part at the AEGON Championships 2012 at the Queen’s Club – a perfect grasscourt warm-up tournament leading to the 2012 Wimbledon tournament. The American is also slated to take part at the 2012 London Olympics – with the tennis competition slated to take place at the same venue, same tennis courts.
Roddick has won the Queen’s Club tournament four times in the past and he’s also made waves at the All England Club – with three visits in the finals – but lost all of them to Roger Federer. He admitted that the loss in 2009 Wimbledon final was very hard to accept and that he cried in the locker room.
“I’m just glad I managed to keep it together on the court, and not cry in public because that would’ve been embarrassing,” he said.
Roddick was in a brink of victory at the 2009 Wimbledon final but lost his serve for the first and only time in the match which turned out to be a pivotal point with Federer narrowly winning.
