I feel so bad for Andy Roddick
July 5th 2009 01:54 pm
When I wasn’t working on coding or checking out what’s been going on at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit this past two weeks, I’ve been spending my free time keeping track of this year’s Wimbledon tennis championship in London.
I just got done watching the Men’s singles final about an hour ago and I have to say it was one of the most impressive matches I’ve seen. Andy Roddick has often played a distant second fiddle to Roger Federer in grass court matches but today Andy was playing at an absolutely incredible level.
He forced a decisive fifth set, which in Wimbledon (among other tournaments) cannot end on a tiebreak. Federer served first and both players held their own serve for 29 games in a row. From after the third game Andy Roddick won, if he dropped serve at any point from there the match would have been effectively over, and after his fifth game his service games really were sudden death. He managed to hang on for 14 games before finally being broken by Roger Federer, who won Wimbledon 5-7 7-6(6) 7-6(2) 3-6 16-14.
That was the only time he broke Andy Roddick’s serve the entire game. Andy Roddick broke Roger Federer twice, in the first and fourth sets but was not able to win the tiebreakers in the second or third sets. In the second set Andy Roddick was up 6-2 in the tiebreak but lost 6 points in a row to lose the set.
I know Roddick is probably devastated right now thinking about how close he came to finally grabbing the Wimbledon title (he lost to Federer in 2004 and 2005) but this tennis fan at least has noticed how improved his game is this year. Hopefully there will be more top-10 players from the American men’s side soon because although Roddick is doing well he can’t keep it up forever.
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“Hopefully there will be more top-10 players from the American men’s side soon” Come on, you have had your fair share between McEnroe, Connors, Courrier, Sampras, Agassi, let other countries have some good players too. :)
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gsas: I wasn’t aware that Fernando González and Juan Martin del Potro were really from the same country, I thought they were from Chile and Argentina, respectively. Must be just myself being a stupid American, eh? Also you’re a tool who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but thanks for playing.
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Med: You have more Frenchman now in the top 50, and it’s been that way for awhile. ;) Hopefully one will win a Grand Slam but I guess we’ll see.
Andi Roddick is superbly sportsmen-like “Rodger get’s all the credit etc etc” but underneath that – this has to be one of the most devestating moments of Andi Roddick’s life.
He totally took it to Federer. Look at the damn score. He one the first set and lost the next 2 sets 7-6 7-6 THEN came up with the goods AFTER those devestating tie break losses to break Federer 3-6.
He was CLEARLY on his way to winning by 2 damn points lost.
Roddick played at or near the top of his game and was a HUGE under-dog coming into the finals against Federer. I think the bookies had a bet on Roddick at 500% of your bet.
Roddick HAD the match in the 5th set and his loss all came down to a few points. This was an epic tennis match and I feel so bad for Roddick right now I’m sure he cryed his eyes out afterwards.
When you lose a match knowing that you played at or near the top of your game it’s 100x worse then if you were “out of the zone” or “not feeling it” or “not at your game”
Roddick is devestated. No doubt.
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I got to this site by typing ” I feel so” in Google. So there you go. It was this blog who entered into my list of answers in a search. You dont want me here, chose better your words, or sue Googgle. Honestly, I dont think as high of Roddick. He doesnt have the tennis game, he doesnt have the mental strenght and he is not as good as sportman like others. In this latest match, when the moment of true came with close calls, and they used the challenging system, Federer missed three challenges in a row, for less than 1/4th of an inch, all in critical points. He didnt complaint, he didnt blink, he tightened the jaw and played the next point. When something like that happened later to Roddick, he was wiggling his ass like a sissy, he look one way, walk the other, said something to the judge. A 8 year old girl wouldn’t done the act of prancing and struting it any better. That is what finally broke Rodick at the very end. His mental strenght has no match to Federer’s. He only wins so much because of one shot, the serve. He didnt deserve it. Even more, Federer served more aces than him, because Federer thinks better, he has better strategy, and he doesnt rely on pure stupid raw force. So be it. And he was not very sportman when he severely critized and moked Jokovich before their match in the US Open last year, only to lose to him. He never justified his comments, and he didnt apologize. He was an complete idiot then, and he is a whimp now. Let him cry, he deserves that too.
Ah…I dont know what KDE is and I dont care. You all have a good day.
Hahaha, some of these comments make me laugh.
You know, I think Federer is one of the most awkward people when it comes to speaking in public. But he’s one heck of a tennis player. He doesn’t seem to be trying most of the time either. He has some crazy spin shots as well.
Roddick is good and he played his heart out, but this is part of tennis he knows this. It’s actually good that he was so upset afterwards cause that proves to us he’s in it for the love of the game and not for the money. Having said that, when he gets upset he can go curl up in his $1000 blankets and play with his fancy toys, so don’t feel too bad for him.
The other thing I want to say is that there are plenty of excellent American tennis player. I feel for the British, I really though Andy Murry had a chance this time. (Come to think of it, that last match might have taken a lot out of Roddick).
andy you were the winner at wimbdeon2009, federer maty be the wimbdeon champ this year,and have the trophy, enjoy your 6 wimbdelon title federer becasue it wont last, poor andy roddick i fet bad for him, so close from wining wimbdelon this poor guy was fighting so hard to come home with that wimbdelon trophy, while fedrer want to beat pete saprus 15 recored nobody cares about pete sapmburs record, no rafael nadal this year at wimbeon,because of an injury, fedrer makes the final he must win,look at the score in the 5 sets points were raise high just so federer can win andy 14 fderer 16 the points should of been alot lower,last year rafael won, federer won 5 times already and goes right back to federer this year can we get a break from federr pleas let this be federer last wimbdelon tiltle,poor andy jjust missed wining wimbdelon the retun of serve must him up,in the 5 sets, after the match was over i didnot like the way federr raise his arms in the air, that was unfair to andy roodick and his fans, maybe good rating in enland but not here in the united states, soory andy had to loose 3 times, hoefully the return of rafael next year will make this moor intrested at wimbdelon and federer will be deffeated by anoter player , andy was figting so hard to come home with tht wimbdelon trhopphy but i do belive that andy roddick was slight cheated of coming home with that wimbelon tropphy,
This match was something else. I thought Roddick outplayed Federer in four out of the five sets and deserved the title, but I am still glad Roger won his 15th slam in front of Pete Sampras in such a dramatic fashion. The match, from start to finish, was a thrill ride.
Sorry your horse had to come in 2nd, Mike :-/