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Serves Faster than Your Car Goes - Andy Roddick Trivia
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Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He became a Grand Slam singles champion when he won the title at the 2003 U.S. Open. He has reached three other Grand Slam finals, losing to Roger Federer each time. Roddick is known for his fast serves and forehands. He also holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, clocked at 155 mph, or 248.2 km/h.
| | In 2004, Roddick produced the fastest serve in professional tennis: 248 km/h (155 mph) during a Davis Cup semi-final match with Belarus's Vladimir Voltchkov on hard court in Charleston. Earlier that year, Roddick had the fastest serve in U.S. Open history: 244 km/h (152 mph) against American Scoville Jenkins. |
| | On April 5, 2002, Roddick guest-starred on the television show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as himself, and in the episode, Sabrina summoned him so he could give her tennis lessons. |
| | After winning the 2004 NASDAQ-100 Open tournament, Roddick opened trading on the NASDAQ on August 20, 2004. |
| | Roddick hosted Saturday Night Live on November 8, 2003, becoming the second tennis player, (the first being Chris Evert) and the first male tennis player to host (while Chris Evert is the first and only female tennis player to host SNL). |
| | Roddick won the 2004 ESPY Award for Best Male Tennis Player. |
| | In 2005, Roddick won the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award of the Year because of his charity efforts, which included: raising money for the survivors of the tsunami following 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake through Serving for Tsunami Relief and other efforts; auctioning off several rackets and autographs to raise money for UNICEF; and creating the Andy Roddick Foundation to help at-risk youth. The foundation is partly funded through the sale of blue wristbands inscribed "No Compromise," inspired by Lance Armstrong's yellow Livestrong wristbands.[citation needed] |
| | In 2007 Roddick and the Andy Roddick Foundation was awarded by the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. Roddick was the first male tennis player ever to receive this award. |
| | Roddick is a big fan of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team due to his being born less than an hour away from UNL in Omaha. He occasionally attends home games and there is even a bathroom in his parents' house that is covered in red-and-white Cornhusker wallpaper. |
| | He supports Miami Heat |
| | Roddick has been linked to fellow tennis player Maria Sharapova during the 2006 US Open. |
| | Andy Roddick further displayed his strong character when he saved fellow tennis player Sjeng Schalken and other guests from a Hotel fire back in 2004. |
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