What’s up with Roddick?
F. Dancevic (Canada) defeated A. Roddick today, 6-4, 7-6, in the semifinals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships. Roddick only served 47% first serves and looked somewhat flat during his match. Afterwards he said:
“I didn’t have much to give out there,”
“I wish I had a reason for you. I don’t know why. I wasn’t feeling that well.”
This loss poses the question if Roddick has lost it. He hasn’t had great results so far this year, getting destroyed this year by Federer at the Australian Open, losing in the first round of the French Open, and losing to Gasquet in quarterfinals of Wimbledon after getting up 2 sets to none. Sure, he had a tight win over N. Mahut at Queens and made it to semifinals of the Australian, but he is far from winning the second grand slam he covets. And he isn’t getting any younger either. Roddick will be 25 this August and soon will have to start competing more with up and coming stars like Murray, Gasquet, Djokovic, Baghdatis, and (of course) Nadal. In addition Federer will always be around. I see this US Open Series as a crucial time for Roddick. Currently I think he has what it takes to best everyone but Federer on hard courts (when he’s not having terrible losses to unseeded Canadian players), but not for much longer. However, the question is: Is he mentally in it? This article suggests that Roddick is still brewing over his Wimbledon loss. What do you think? Do you think Roddick has what it takes to post good results at the US Open? I understand that he has little chance of beating Federer, but right now it looks like it’d be a practical walkover for Federer.
July 29th, 2007 at 1:35 am
I see Roddick get far in US Open ONLY if he wins a tough match against a top 5 player.
Or even better, against 2 or 3 of the top ten. (which would be probably in QF)
Then he could get really pumped up and go for it. The way I see him now he plays too “nice”.
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