{"id":2745,"date":"2026-09-05T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:55:30","slug":"andy-roddick-issues-australian-open-prediction-for-serena-williams-after-us-open-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick issues Australian Open prediction for Serena Williams after US Open loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Roddick does not think tennis fans have seen the last of Serena Williams<\/a> following her US Open doubles exit with sister Venus.<\/p>\n

The legendary sisters have a combined age of 90 but gave their much younger opponents, Maya Joint and Chan Hao-ching, a fierce battle in a 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (10-7) first-round defeat on a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The 14th seeds fell 5-0 down in the final set tie-break but Chan and Joint, who beat Serena<\/a> at this year\u2019s Wimbledon in three sets, roared back to disappoint the raucous home crowd.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old took a singles wildcard at SW19 but decided against accepting one at Flushing Meadows. This begs the question: will this be a brief and unsuccessful flash in the pan?<\/p>\n

Or is this part of the 23-time major winner\u2019s bedding-in process? According to former world No 1 Roddick<\/a>, he thinks Serena will continue playing beyond this year\u2019s US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He said on Served<\/a>, \u201cSerena did an interview with Malika Andrews (ESPN). And she just asked her, \u2018Are you going to play singles again and a major?\u2019 And she said, \u2018Yeah, I want to. I\u2019m going to\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s gonna use this as a springboard\u2026 maybe this was a stress test. Can I still play? Is it still there? I think the answer is yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if tonight would deter her in any way. The movement looks good. I still think she has more in the serve, legs and shoulder and everything else. I\u2019d bet you a dollar that she plays [in] Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea what Venus<\/a> is gonna do. She is not thirsty. She doesn\u2019t do a ton of it. She doesn\u2019t do a ton of pressure. She just kind of loves the game. Serena\u2026 the only reason I have an opinion on it is because she said it very clearly to a very pointed and clear question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serena will almost certainly have to play more singles matches before entering next year\u2019s Australian Open<\/a>. And while Roddick was full of praise for the Williams sisters, he felt Venus was the the match\u2019s most valuable player.<\/p>\n

Roddick continued, \u201cI think Venus was the best player on the court tonight. Venus was dominant, holding serve, attacking returns. I thought she was fantastic.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a good doubles player still. Made the [US Open] quarters with Leylah Fernandez last year. I thought she played great tonight. She hit the ball great. I thought Serena, like, weirdly, it\u2019s almost like I think she wanted to win for Venus. But it was so fun for me to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Serena Williams explains what Carlos Alcaraz did at the US Open that she \u2018really appreciated\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Andy Roddick does not think tennis fans have seen the last of Serena Williams following her US Open doubles exit with sister Venus. The legendary sisters have a combined age of 90 but gave their much younger opponents, Maya Joint and Chan Hao-ching, a fierce battle in a 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (10-7) first-round defeat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}