“It’s interesting to me how two people can live, generally, the same reality and have a different take on what they miss, what they want to do, the parts they like,” Roddick said. “I’m almost the opposite of every single thing that you just said post-career. I didn’t miss it as soon as I left it; mine was the reverse. The only thing I did miss was the discipline of training.”
“I had one day where I wanted to vomit after I retired because I wasn’t out there,” he continued. “I retired young enough, and I don’t say this in an arrogant way, but for four or five years after I retired, I didn’t wonder if I could still play, I kind of knew that if I wanted to, I think I could have.”
An important takeaway of the pair’s conversation was that at Isner’s 6-foot-10 height, the reality of professional sport is entirely different. Citing other big men like Reilly Opelka and Ivo Karlovic, Isner noted that the exposure to injury is greater, so his main goal was to stay healthy.
“I could not train in the cookie-cutter way,” Isner said. “Even at a young age, all the time in the gym was treated as more important than the time on the court. Of course I would put the time in on the court, but I was not practicing three to four hours a day, that would have been a detriment to myself.”
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