A few years ago, Andy Roddick threw away nearly all of his trophies. “I thought, I don’t really need these,” he tells me. “Anyone who’s in our house kind of knows what I did.” We’re sitting on the screened-in porch of his lodge-like getaway in Cashiers, North Carolina, a remote village in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s a house that feels lived-in. Shoes can stay on. Coasters are never mentioned. One of the few prizes he’s kept, his runner-up platter from the 2006 U.S. Open, lies on the living room coffee table, repurposed as a drink caddy, its surface stained with cocktail glass rings.
Roddick, soon to turn 41, is a big dude, six-two, bordering on burly. Dad-bod has been mostly kept at bay by daily workouts—usually Peloton. He’s wearing a tee shirt and shorts and a baseball hat from Sweetens Cove, the Tennessee golf course and whiskey brand he co-owns with a group that includes Peyton Manning. His wife, the model and actress Brooklyn Decker, is on her way, making the three-hour drive west from Charlotte, their primary home. Their kids, seven-year-old son Hank and five-year-old daughter Stevie, are at day camp. It’s just me and Roddick and the cat and Bob Costas, the bulldog, who sniffs at our feet and waddles into the kitchen.
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