The shirt Andy Roddick was wearing when he won the 2003 United States Open was cool, so cool, with one sleeve black and the other white, and diagonal lines across the chest, and some more diagonals across the back, that Tommy Paul remembers wanting to do anything to get it.
And the hat Roddick wore? Paul recalls that it was one of those “trucker ones,” with the mesh on top that lets your head breathe. He wanted that, too. Immediately. Or maybe as soon as yesterday.
“That outfit did it,” Paul said with a laugh, explaining how he became hooked on tennis.