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  • Rodddick looks like planning genius after skipping Beijing

    9/4/08 8:55 AM | Johan Lindahl
    - Andy Roddick is starting to look like a planning genius as his decision to skip the Beijing Games in favour of preparing for the US Open pays off. The eighth-seeded American will play a quarter-final for the third straight year after crushing Fernando Gonzalez with ease.

    Roddick said that his current situation is just fine by him. “I made a decision, I don't know if it was the right one or not”, said the 26-year-old who won the home trophy in 2003.

    “I'm certainly not going to give the credit for me playing well here to not going to the Olympics - I played like crap while the Olympics were going on”.

    Roddick's losing final in LA to Juan Del Potro and a Washington quarter-final did not instill much confidence in the former No. 1. “I certainly didn't have any momentum coming off of Washington.

    ”I played horrendous there. But more than anything I had a full week to prepare here for the first time in a long time, and I think that helped“.

    Roddick has dropped just one set in four matches so far as he heads into a contest against 2007 finalist Novak Djokovic.

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