RODDICK on SIGNING CLOTHING DEAL at 17 YEARS OLD

Excerpt from Served with Andy Roddick Episode 24 - released on 6.18.24
Andy shares his experience going from being a NCAA prospect to signing agents and clothing deals over the course of 4 months. Andy talks about what it was like negotiating player sponsorships, deals with agencies, and the beginning of his career as a pro tennis player on the ATP tour at 17 years old.
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[@bilders6701]

Appreciate you being so candid Andy. Best tennis podcast today!

[@chasestoner7621]

Can you talk about the davydenko’s of the tour having no ‘deals’ despite being top in the world?

[@krogdog]

They play 30+ tournaments per year and make most of their money from appearance fees. That’s what Davydenko did.

[@bigboytennis1]

Good question. How could a top player not have a racket sponsor and such. I mentioned racket because he used the prince racket but didn't have the P painted on the strings. Did he get offers and didn't accept or prince didn't want to sponsor him?

[@margaretzee8162]

This was REALLY interesting - more please! Hoping that in a future episode you could go down the clothing rabbit hole….. We fans HATE it when both singles players in a match are wearing the same outfit. Why don’t the top ten or top 5 players get exclusive outfits? Why are they wearing the same thing as #340 in the world? And yes, we know that to them, the more exposure the better, so people will buy the outfits - but it only makes us hate them from over exposure! And even more nit picky - so often the outfits match the court and/or court background color which really affects the viewing experience. Seriously - there are thousands of colors and they SO frequently match or are dangerously similar to the background.🤦‍♀️ How are these clothing “experts” so clueless?

[@bilders6701]

They started this with Roger initially in 2005. If Roger was wearing an outfit, other players wouldn't wear it, or at worst, would wear a different colour combination. Rafa didn't quite get the full exclusive outfit year round treatment til about 2008. I collected all of these so I'm very much invested

[@DaveyB-q8i]

Great video

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

i llike these stroies, more of that

[@onedone2011]

kewl konvo

[@CarlosOlivoIQ]

And the next part? Is that the end of the story??