Former world number one Andy Roddick said he still had the hunger to win another grand slam after bowing out in the second round of Wimbledon to Janko Tipsarevic on Thursday.

The Serbian ended twice runner-up Roddick's bid to reach another Wimbledon final with a 6-7 7-5 6-4 7-6 victory, sending him home at the earliest stage in eight visits to the home of grasscourt tennis.

Roddick, 25, won his one and so far only grand slam as a 21-year-old at the U.S. Open in 2003.

"By no means am I going to complain about anything that I've been blessed with, but it's almost at this point win another slam or what?" Roddick told a news conference.

"I want to win another slam. I could probably coast and not train and be a top 10 player and kind of have a cushy lifestyle and be set for as long as I need to be set for. I'm happy as I can be away from losing tennis matches.

"But I don't I don't know if that appeals to me. I don't know if I'm satisfied with that. So you do what you can and you kind of try to put yourself in that position."

Roddick, who split with coach Jimmy Connors in March, won titles in San Jose and Dubai this year but was sidelined for a month in the lead up to Wimbledon with back and shoulder injuries.

The world number six, indulging in some honest self-analysis, used an unusual analogy to assess the current path of his career.

"You know, when you've seen the Rolling Stones from the front row, and then all of a sudden you're like seven or eight rows back and there's a really tall guy in front of you waving his hands and screaming, you can't see much, it's not going to be as good as the other show," he said.

"That's kind of what you're going to remember. Maybe you got to kind of get some baby steps to get back there."

Roddick said after winning the Davis Cup last year as part of a United States team that it felt on a par with his U.S. Open triumph, but predicted that another grand slam triumph could top both.

"It probably would be better than anything I've felt in tennis before."