The Andy Roddick Serve

All the tennis experts and commentators say that the way Andy Roddick serves, he is going to hurt his shoulder. And I say they’re all missing the point. The bomb goes off, but do people know what they are seeing? I think that all the people who analyze, and all the people that commentate on TV, and all the people that write, and the general public all say, “It looks like he’s going to tear up his shoulder,” because they’re seeing this explosive, electrifying, accelerated motion, and all of a sudden there’s an atomic bomb going off. You know what? They said the same thing about Bjorn Borg when he first came in the game, that he’s going to have elbow surgery because of how he whips that racket. And to my knowledge, 25 years later, he’s never had elbow surgery. So the John Newcombes and Tony Traberts of the world, and all these other people, were a little off base in their analysis. It’s the same with Roddick. The perception is, boy, there’s a lot of smoke there. There’s a lot of electricity. They’re seeing something they’ve never seen before. They don’t really understand it and so the conclusion…