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  • Another Disappointment for Roddick

    2008-04-06 16:19:00
    Andy Roddick is one of the most successful tennis players in the world. At the same time, it feels like Roddick has suffered more setbacks than most of his colleagues on the ATP circuit. Ever since he came on the scene, the expectations on Roddick have been extremely high. The Americans were desperate for a new star and with his win at the US Open 2003, Andy Roddick was hailed as a player who would dominate tennis. Since then, Roddick has done very well. But not close to the results that many Americans expected from him. Since finishing 2003 as World No. 1, Roddick has finished the following four seasons with a ranking of 2-3-6-6. That is very impressive, and in my opinion, Roddick has done extremely well being a rather one-dimensional player.

    The only top 5-shot in his artillery is his serve, and he manages to rely on it match after match. The bad serving performances are far in between. From a mental aspect, this is very impressive. Andy knows, as well as all the others of us, that he will not beat many of the players from the baseline. He needs to get a head-start with his serve, and then dominate the point from thereon. With the obvious limitations in his game, he has actually done better than expected and should be very proud of his achievements. Still, yesterday’s loss clearly felt like yet another major disappointment, his third one so far just in 2008.

    The Australian Open loss to Philipp Kohlschreiber was a match that Roddick didn’t just lose. He also behaved in a way that won’t win him the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award. Against the world’s top players, Roddick got his revenge in Dubai where he went on to win the title. This spurred the talk about Roddick having a chance at the top two or three spots in the world again, and as Roddick came back to the US to play at Indian Wells, people expected him to at least reach the final four. Roddick fell heavily to Tommy Haas in his first match, and suddenly the same people went quiet. Maybe Andy wasn’t back for real?

    Well, less than two weeks later, he was back with a bang as he beat Roger Federer for the first time since 2003. Now, Andy Roddick was definitely back, right? At the press conference, Roddick was talking about winning Slams again and proving everyone that he isn’t a one-Slam wonder. Well, just a day later, the 25-year old lost to Nikolay Davydenko, whom he had never lost to before. Another major setback for Roddick and his entourage.

    Maybe he will find comfort in the arms of his new fiancée, the swimsuit model. On a side note, why is it that it so often feels like a coincidence who celebrities decide to get engaged to and (in some cases) eventually get married to? This is clearly not my area of expertise, but a guy like Roddick has dated say ten girls the past few years. Then, suddenly, he decides to get engaged to the tenth girl after having dated her for a few months.

    Is it just me, or do engagements feel so much better planned when it comes to “normal” people?

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I agree, 'normal' people don't have the same pressure on their private lives that these guys do.

genesis1v1 , 4/8/08 1:51 AM


I wouldn't consider this a setback considering Davydenko played out of his mind. Roddick lost to a guy ranked higher than him and who played an extremly impressive game. He might not have ever lost to him before but there are first times for everything, maybe Davydenko was due and then again Roddick finally beat Federer so how is this possibly a setback?

Also the whole engament thing: You don't normally read about "normal" people's engagements on every news outlet and also most celebrities meet other celebrites so that is who they ended up dating and marrying, why is this a bad thing? And obvioulsy the woman he dated prior to Brooklyn (see she has a name other than swimsuit model) he didn't want to marry so what? What does that have anything to do with him wanting to marry Brooklyn.

angelalynn , 5/8/08 8:45 PM



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