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Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1982 and started playing tennis when he was seven.
By the age of 16, Andy Roddick was winning every junior tournament he entered, and it was predicted Roddick would be the next, great American tennis superstar.
Andy Roddick turned pro by age 17. A year before he had already won two tournaments and was one of the top 50 ranked players. As of 2003, Andy Roddick had won five titles and was ranked among the top five tennis players in the world
The key to Andy's game is his monstrous serve. On June 2003 during the finals of a grass-court tournament in London Roddick tied a world record by unleashing a thunderbolt serve that reached 149 miles per hour.
In 2003 Andy reached the semi-finals of both Wimbledon and the Australian Open and in September of that same year, Roddick won the US Open; his first Grand Slam title.
From June 2003 to December 2004 Roddick was coached by former pro Brad Gilbert. Then in 2004 he broke his own record for faster serve in Delray Beach Florida, with a serve of 152 mph.
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