Andy Roddick blamed former coach Brad Gilbert for snatching his ‘best hair years’ in a hilarious admission

Roddick sat down with GQ on account of his 20th anniversary of winning the US Open.

Andy Roddick blamed former coach Brad Gilbert for snatching his ‘best hair years’ in a hilarious admission

Brad Gilbert (left) and Andy Roddick (right) (Image via Sports illustrated)

Andy Roddick is one of the tennis greats and is the last American man to win a Major championship. Roddick recalls his 2003 partnering with coach Brad Gilbert and how he blames him for ending his visor era in GQ profile on his 20th anniversary of winning the US Open.

In this interview, Roddick offers a lot of thanks to the team that helped him win the US Open within two weeks of Pete Sampras‘ retirement from tennis. The achievement propelled him to become World No. 1 and secure his place in tennis history.

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During the interview with GQ, the American ace recalled his experience with Gilbert, who is now working with World No. 6 Coco Gauff. Gilbert’s first move was to tell Roddick to remove his orange visor, which had become his signature headwear.

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Gilbert told to GQ, “He was wearing this ridiculous orange visor. Get a frickin’ proper hat, a trucker hat, anything. But you will never wear a visor in my presence.’”

Since then, Roddick has switched the visor for a full baseball cap, and he rarely appears without one. Later Roddick joked,“If I would’ve known it would’ve ended like this,” he says pointing to his bald head, “I would’ve worn the visor a lot longer. I texted Brad and was like, ‘F**k you, man. You took away my best hair years.’”

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Andy Roddick talks about being famous in GQ profile

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Andy Roddick (Image via Dayfr Euro)

In his interview with GQ, Roddick also mentioned that tennis had never been an individual sport for him. He had always viewed himself as a part of a team, almost akin to an F1 driver. He remarked that the similarity was present, but it wasn’t acknowledged in the same way. He noted that while a pit crew was visible, the work they did behind the scenes wasn’t as prominently showcased.

It was teamwork that got Roddick through the high days of his stardom as he became World number one and had a stroller record; he even hosted SNL (Saturday Night Live), which gave him time to flex his undervalued comic timing.

“You’re 21 and you’re like, ‘This is awesome. I’m super famous,’” Roddick said. “There’s a certain amount of like, ‘Oh, I hate being famous…’ But then you go to the restaurant where everyone is. Like, Shut up. You don’t actually hate it,” the former US Open winner added.

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