Roddick still eats a lot of fast food

tennis_hand

Hall of Fame
Roddick feeling better as he arrives in Washington
By ASHTON WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
July 30, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andy Roddick will probably avoid the drive thru this week.

Roddick admitted Monday that a late-night fast food meal after a match last week in Indianapolis was what slowed him down in a semifinal loss on Saturday to Frank Dancevic. At the time Roddick complained of "a stomach bug or something."


But Roddick says he started feeling better several hours after that loss, and proclaimed himself ready to play Tomas Zib on Tuesday in the second round at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, a tournament Roddick has won twice.

"I'm getting better, should be all right by tomorrow," said Roddick, who added he never seriously considered not playing this week.
 

tricky

Hall of Fame
Roddick admitted Monday that a late-night fast food meal after a match last week in Indianapolis was what slowed him down in a semifinal loss on Saturday to Frank Dancevic.

Apparently, a Big Mac is more lethal to Roddick's serve than Federer. Well done Roddick. :(
 

Challenger

Semi-Pro
Wow...bested by a Big Mac. Not the way you wanna go out in a televised tournament. Well, I'm glad at least it wasn't anything serious. Any embarrassment he feels could be quickly wiped away with a big showing at Legg Mason...so shape up there, Andy!
 

Chauvalito

Hall of Fame
I am pretty sure Roddick is covering for himself a little bit.

Obviously the 110 degree court temps and high humidity had nothing to do with his loss...
 

Fedace

Banned
No wonder he is still losing to fed every time. anyway, Does anyone know type of foods to avoid night before a big match like USTA league match ??
 

hoosierbr

Hall of Fame
That's surprising. Eating fast food before a match isn't smart but the night before shouldn't have that kind of effect. Hec, Agassi used to eat fast food all the time early in his career. Of course that's all he ate and he didn't work out so much either.

Maybe the burger wasn't cooked too well.
 

tennis_hand

Hall of Fame
That's surprising. Eating fast food before a match isn't smart but the night before shouldn't have that kind of effect. Hec, Agassi used to eat fast food all the time early in his career. Of course that's all he ate and he didn't work out so much either.

Maybe the burger wasn't cooked too well.


you are totally wrong. you should take care of your physical form the night before your match. What you eat the night before is very important. If you eat a lot of transfat, the next day you feel sluggish. The fat has accumulated in your stomach during your sleep. Eat things like noodles, spaghetti. just avoid fried stuff.
 

boobik2371

Semi-Pro
usually before a match i eat a burger i love them...one i showed up with a double bacon cheeseburger combo from jack in a box and boy was it good i ended up winning the back draw
 

rommil

Legend
I am pretty sure Roddick is covering for himself a little bit.

Obviously the 110 degree court temps and high humidity had nothing to do with his loss...
Dancevic figured out how to win it in the same conditions. Anyways, I have said a many times in the past Roddick needs to lose some weight. He looks heavy in person.
 

superstition

Hall of Fame
Dancevic figured out how to win it in the same conditions. Anyways, I have said a many times in the past Roddick needs to lose some weight. He looks heavy in person.
Roddick is more muscular than Dancevic. Muscles are a benefit and a hindrance. They make hot conditions seem hotter and fatigue a player more quickly (more tissue the heart must pump through). However, one can sometimes end points sooner with the pace and stability they can produce.
 

Challenger

Semi-Pro
Roddick is more muscular than Dancevic. Muscles are a benefit and a hindrance. They make hot conditions seem hotter and fatigue a player more quickly (more tissue the heart must pump through).

But wouldn't a smaller, less muscular player need to swing bigger and put in more physical effort to sustain the same power a more muscular player can achieve at a lesser level? If that were the case, wouldn't putting in all that energy force the heart to pump harder, which, in effect, would place the weaker player on equal grounds in terms of fatigue and energy expenditure?

I think muscular players, if anything, should have an advantage in such conditions, as their cardiovascular system is much stronger. It's been shown that "fitter" athletes have lower heart rates, due to all the cardio exercises and conditioning work they do. A more physically fit person should outperform a less fit person in any condition, IMO.
 

rommil

Legend
Roddick is more muscular than Dancevic. Muscles are a benefit and a hindrance. They make hot conditions seem hotter and fatigue a player more quickly (more tissue the heart must pump through). However, one can sometimes end points sooner with the pace and stability they can produce.

Muscular where? Wait don't answer that lol. Frank has a lankier frame than Roddick . Roddick has a big butt and bulky thighs(Lord how did I get dragged into this). Muscle is good in tennis but flexibilty is equally important as well as technique and timing. Ever notice tennis players build lean on the thin side? It would be awkward seeing Governor Ahnold in Wimbledon or sliding on the courts of Paris.
 

BreakPoint

Bionic Poster
I know that Roddick always likes to ask his drivers to stop whenever he passes a McDonalds to get some greasy french fries.

Those McDonalds' fries always make me feel sick after eating them.
 

lawrence

Hall of Fame
i know roddicks and athlete and all but i really doubt that one meal lost him the game
on the rare occasion that he eats fast food he gets food poisoning? i mean come on. everyone eats fast food and i thought athletes were meant to be well conditioned?
 
47% of his first serves went in, and he still lost 4 and 6.

The lawyers at McDonald's are all over this one. He's either going to end up with a lawsuit or an endorsement deal. ''da da dutdut daa, I'm lovin' it!''

Note to Andy's agent, publicist and brother: time for an all-nighter. Do you guys like your coffee with pizza, Chinese take-out or fastfood?
 

hoosierbr

Hall of Fame
you are totally wrong. you should take care of your physical form the night before your match. What you eat the night before is very important. If you eat a lot of transfat, the next day you feel sluggish. The fat has accumulated in your stomach during your sleep. Eat things like noodles, spaghetti. just avoid fried stuff.

You missed my point. I'm not saying that eating fast food the night before or even an hour before a match is good for you. I'm saying that it shouldn't and most likely wouldn't throw your system out of whack completely if you train and excercise properly.

Pat Etcheberry (sp?) is one of the best physical trainers in the world when it comes to tennis and his training philosophy is based on eating whatever you want, be it pizza or burgers, but putting in the necessary work to be able to eat and stay fit.

I've put this philosphy to use and it's worked fine. I've eaten burgers before and after matches and have never had a problem playing. Maybe didn't always feel so hot afterwards though.

Perhaps you haven't noticed but Roddick isn't exactly the epitome of top physical condition. Nor was Andre Agassi for that matter early in his career yet AA ate nothing but fast food and did ok.

Eating well and smart is ideal naturally. Roddick always seems to come up with excuses whenever he loses a match he should have won.
 

West Coast Ace

G.O.A.T.
Roddick is more muscular than Dancevic. Muscles are a benefit and a hindrance. They make hot conditions seem hotter and fatigue a player more quickly (more tissue the heart must pump through). However, one can sometimes end points sooner with the pace and stability they can produce.
You're on a roll for ridiculous statements. You act like the 'muscle' just showed up recently. I'm sure his heart (and other organs) has adapted to his body. As one other poster noted, Roddick's fitness still has a ways to go - when he pulls up his shirt to dry his face, there's some 'padding' showing.

Roddick took this guy lightly and paid the price. Nice win for Dancevic.

Dancevic outplayed him, so he blames a Big Mac. Classic.
Rodman using the Venus/Serena playbook - sad...
 

mileslong

Professional
food poisoning is nothing but a made up excuse, his own brother intimated as much. you dont eat a meal then sleep on it and get sick because of it sometime the next afternoon after playing a set of tennis. BS, you get sick WAY before that with food poisoning.

he wasnt in as good a shape as frank and he just doesnt want to admit it so he throws his brother under the bus and blames him for bringing him tainted food the night before, another reason why i cant stand roddick...
 

Chauvalito

Hall of Fame
Dancevic figured out how to win it in the same conditions. Anyways, I have said a many times in the past Roddick needs to lose some weight. He looks heavy in person.

I was insinuating that Dancevic was in better shape, and that Roddick took the match for granted by being so ill prepared for the conditions
 

Azzurri

Legend
I am pretty sure Roddick is covering for himself a little bit.

Obviously the 110 degree court temps and high humidity had nothing to do with his loss...

Exactly...he is just making excuses. I have said it before and will again...he has no heart and his mental game sucks. I don't know how Connors puts up with it...oh that's right Roddick pays him. We all know how much money means to Jimmy. It was pathetic how easily Roddick gave up.
 

Topaz

Legend
Sheesh...a professional athlete should know better than that! No matter what anybody says, that is not a smart choice the night before a match, especially in such hot conditions.

Maybe it just means he didn't take Dancevic seriously as an opponent...something that is also a stupid mistake for a professional.

Edited to add: Ack! Now I have the stupid Mcdonald's theme song in my head!
 

Azzurri

Legend
you are totally wrong. you should take care of your physical form the night before your match. What you eat the night before is very important. If you eat a lot of transfat, the next day you feel sluggish. The fat has accumulated in your stomach during your sleep. Eat things like noodles, spaghetti. just avoid fried stuff.

Good advice.......it could make you sluggish, but its not the reason why Roddick lost.
 

ktownva

Semi-Pro
He should hire a full-time nutritionist, the best one available. Then he will have a hall of fame coach, an ex-atp trainer, and someone to watch every gram he eats. It will be hard to make any excuses for losing with that kind of camp.
 

RoddickistheMan

Professional
Once again roddick had a little too much to drink the night before. He did this at the davis cup as well. Playing with a hangover is ill advised. Hes still the man though. Probably underestimated his opponent and stayed up a lil too long the night before.
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Well, one easy reason I can think of off the top of my head is that it's easier to admit to scarfing down fast food than a possible hangover and puking his guts out. :p

I'd be more likely to believe the fast-food excuse if he didn't eat it so regularly. Have you ever eaten at taco bell or burger king or something after not eating fast food for years? Devastating to the digestive system.
 

pound cat

G.O.A.T.
I know that Roddick always likes to ask his drivers to stop whenever he passes a McDonalds to get some greasy french fries.

Those McDonalds' fries always make me feel sick after eating them.

If they always make you sick after eating them, then I have a suggestion for you......
 

nn

Hall of Fame
late in night so maybe no other place to eat.. benefit of doubt last time sucker otherwise no more reply to roddick threads
 

War Safin!

Professional
Back in 2001-2003, when he played at Nottingham, Roddick always used to frequent a little Thai restaurant just 5 miles from where I live.
I remember seeing him there one night with his brother John, and 3 other guys - all they ate was the mixed starters and for mains, chicken and cashew nut dishes with fragrant Thai steamed rice.....but they ordered tons.
I think quite a few bottles of lager were consumed too judging by the noise coming from their table....
 

Azzurri

Legend
Back in 2001-2003, when he played at Nottingham, Roddick always used to frequent a little Thai restaurant just 5 miles from where I live.
I remember seeing him there one night with his brother John, and 3 other guys - all they ate was the mixed starters and for mains, chicken and cashew nut dishes with fragrant Thai steamed rice.....but they ordered tons.
I think quite a few bottles of lager were consumed too judging by the noise coming from their table....

Did you tell him to shut up? I hate Roddick...I would have asked the manager or someone to tell them to keep the noise down...:p
 

rommil

Legend
Back in 2001-2003, when he played at Nottingham, Roddick always used to frequent a little Thai restaurant just 5 miles from where I live.
I remember seeing him there one night with his brother John, and 3 other guys - all they ate was the mixed starters and for mains, chicken and cashew nut dishes with fragrant Thai steamed rice.....but they ordered tons.
I think quite a few bottles of lager were consumed too judging by the noise coming from their table....

Did you know it was really Roddick when you heard him yell "WATER"?
 

Michelangelo

Professional
Roddick feeling better as he arrives in Washington
By ASHTON WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
July 30, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andy Roddick will probably avoid the drive thru this week.

Roddick admitted Monday that a late-night fast food meal after a match last week in Indianapolis was what slowed him down in a semifinal loss on Saturday to Frank Dancevic. At the time Roddick complained of "a stomach bug or something."


But Roddick says he started feeling better several hours after that loss, and proclaimed himself ready to play Tomas Zib on Tuesday in the second round at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, a tournament Roddick has won twice.

"I'm getting better, should be all right by tomorrow," said Roddick, who added he never seriously considered not playing this week.
Eating a lot of fast food - Proof of being a real American!
 
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