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Andy Roddick Reveals Top-10 GOAT Players

Published 03/28/2020, 4:35 PM EDT

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The last American men to win a Grand Slam title Andy Roddick recently got accepted for a position at Tennis Channel, and he seems to have a busy schedule amid the lockdowns in the US.

During his Friday’s session at Tennis Channel, the most-discussed topic ‘the GOAT debate’ was talked upon. The American revealed his list of players.

However, he didn’t a have particular order to it and said, “I can’t go in order.” During the conversation, he also shot a few questions, which were, “who is Serena going to replace? And who is Novak going to replace?” 

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On the men’s side, he placed Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Rod Laver, and Pete Sampras on his GOAT list. 

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“I felt like a bad person” – Andy Roddick on taking out Bjorn Borg from the list. 

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He was not comfortable in eliminating Bjorn Borg from the list. Borg won 11 major tiles and retired from the sport at the age of 26. Roddick said, “it felt horrible. I felt like a bad person, to take Borg out of the top-10 list. I won’t be able to look at him, I won’t be able to shake his hand. The guy is the coolest person, who has ever lived, but he is not in my top-10 list and I feel terrible,” he said.

And on the WTA roster, Serena Williams, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King, and Steffi Graf were part of his list. 

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He further justified why he took the 24-time Grand Slam champion Margaret Court out from his top-10 column. “I took Margaret Court out. I know that it might not be well received. She is the all-time Slam leader. It does give a significance, she won seven Australian Opens. But a lot those were when nobody was there,” Andy Roddick explained.

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To add-on to Andy’s justification, Court won her first Slam in 1960, which was during the amateur tour. And when the Open Era tennis began in 1968, she won 11 more major titles.

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