It's been 20 years since Andy Roddick won the US Open, and no American man has won it since. But this new crop of stars -- from Frances Tiafoe to Taylor Fritz to Christopher Eubanks -- may finally be the ones to do it.
Chris Eubanks, 27, made his first major quarterfinal at Wimbledon, upsetting Cameron Norrie and Stefanos Tsitsipas along the way. commemorating the 20th anniversary of his achievement, Roddick said he was impressed by the current crop of American talent and their competitive spirit with one another.
"There is a healthy jealousy between the players," Roddick told the magazine."They're not all just slapping each other on the back. They want to be better than the other guy. They actually talk about winning Slams.""I don't know," Roddick said."This isn't a cop out. I would probably lie to you if I had a strong feeling, 'cause I wouldn't want one guy to get the spotlight and have to deal with that.
"Everybody would bring up that nobody's won since Fred Perry [in 1936] and then I remember telling Andy and he was like, 'Not on my watch,'" Gilbert said."Sometimes you get caught up in this idea that you have to win, or people are talking about it, and it becomes more of a bigger issue than it really is.", who is having a magical summer with two titles.
"I think American tennis is in a great place," Tiafoe said Friday."Tommy Paul is playing great tennis. Fritz, myself. You have Chris, Ben, Korda. ... I think it's a matter of time, whether it happens here, whether it happens in due time. Obviously, what Andy did in '03 was incredible. I think we hear it more than he probably hears it, what he did in '03.
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