Going to be a great final. Fed will mostlikely win, but with Roddick's new game he has a better chance than ever to dethrone the best player of all time.
thanks for ruining what's on nbc for me and b/c i'm upset about it.. WRONG FORUM i mean seriously, couldn't even post "Wimbledon final" as the thread title so i didn't have to see the f'ing result on the front page of the bbs?
Federer is going to stomp him like always. How many times have I heard Roddick is a new player? He's very good but I don't think this will be close. Federer is on a mission to put total grand slams out of reach and with Nadal hurt his resolve is even stronger.
Roddick played really well against Murray and looked confident hitting winners from the net. But he lacks natural killer instinct so I expect him to fold as usual against Roger instead of putting up a fight. It's discouraging to see how so many good tennis players are afraid to execute their game plan or go for high risk shots against Roger simply because of who he is. Really wish Nadal hadn't dropped out of Wimbledon.
appreciate the mods changing the title as i requested.. after the match finally ended, but maybe it saved someone who DVR'ed it, if nothing else
I just hope Roddick loses. It was so hard to watch Hewitt, and Roddick in the quarters. They are the two biggest a-holes in tennis.
Roddick looked pretty emotional after beating Murray and for the first time ever I liked him a little. I still want Federer to absolutely destroy him however.
I'll vouch you for Hewitt (crypto-racist comment about the linesperson against James Blake in the US Open a few years back), but what do you have against Roddick? He's been less demonstrative on-court than Murray over the years. Does he beat his wife or something that I don't know about? Roddick's wife: Spoiler (Come to think of it, that might be reason enough.)
Have you kept up with tennis? Roddick lost that cockiness that was annoying about him maybe 3 or 4 years ago. He was humbled, he start working harder and has reinvented his game a bit multiple times now.. he's a mature guy who, by all accounts, is pretty nice at this point. Why would you hate him or call him an a-hole?
I could not be more happy that Murray lost. The BBC commentators were portraying this guy as some "Grass God". Good riddance and goodbye to the mega moonballer.
Are you kidding me? These are two of the most accessible players on tour. They are always friendly to the media and more importantly to the fans. Don't solely judge a player's personality by how he acts on the court.
I watch tennis a lot, and Roddick seems like an annoying frat guy/date rapist. He can almost be funny sometimes in interviews, but it comes off(at least to me) as something he is forcing and pushing rather than just letting it happen naturally. I also think it was the French Open 2 years ago when he started questioning Djokovich's injuries, and made a comment to the press about it. Novak hadn't had a history like some of the women's players of doing that kind of thing, and I thought it was classless, or that maybe he was secretly upset about Novak's impression of him. Anyway Novak ended playing Roddick and destroyed him. Just a year ago I saw Roddick play live in a tournament at UCLA. He won the match, but everytime he made a good return or serve, he looked back at his opponent as if he'd just faced him, and posterized him in a basketball game. It wasn't as if the other guy was talking trash or doing anything. It was just obvious that Roddick admired that kind of attitude, and was bringing it into the tennis match. I didn't appreciate it at all. Then we could all the way back to those annoying Roddick mojo commercials. In the past few years he's moved to Austin and represents everything that's wrong with the growth in Austin lately. He thinks by being in a cool place, that he is somehow part of it. I will grant you that he isn't as cocky and annoying as he was in his prime, but he still reeks of cocky a-holishness to me. Anyway I'll admit that it's probably a vicious cycle with Roddick. If a player I liked a lot did those annoying things I might be forgiving, but the fact that Roddick started out so annoying, that anything he does comes off as worse, but because he does those things, I dislike him more.
Wow on the "date rapist" bit, but ok, fair enough. I've been watching Roddick matches since he first came on tour, but I can see how someone might get the complete opposite reading from me. My impression of the Djokovic flap was that Roddick thought he was exaggerating his injuries to get extra rest time via trainer time-outs (if memory serves, NY was hot that year and Djokovic wasn't in the best shape), or as a built-in excuse in case of losses (he doesn't do it as much anymore, but Djokovic used to simply quit matches he was losing, also citing injuries, rather than finishing them out). McEnroe(s) at the time alluded to Roddick's view being the reigning conventional wisdom in the locker room. Clearly, the US announcers were predisposed to the American viewpoints, but I didn't make much of it. I like watching him, stylistically, because of how flawed a tennis player he is. Phenomenal serve, and, when he came on tour, great powerful forehand. Not much else, and for the first several years those two didn't mesh very well. It was like watching Courier 2.0 (though Courier didn't have the serve), only without Courier's dogged determination, and against superior competition. What's impressed me over the last year or so is how much he has reworked his game, when he could have just been satisfied being in the top 20, banging his supermodel wife on the downslope of a career. Guy was hitting backhand return winners today, even off a few first serves; that didn't happen earlier in his career. Also, he seemed today to put it together and finally just overpower Murray, in so doing beating the better player. What's disappointing about Sunday's match is that Federer learned a few years ago to just block his serves back (Murray didn't do this enough today), leaving Roddick flat-footed and having to start the points from scratch against a superior shotmaker/tactician. In so doing, Federer's figured out how to negate Roddick's only real advantage; I will still wake up to watch the match, though, and root for the date-rapist.
I don't see how you can dislike Andy Roddick. To compare personalities to basketball, he's like the Shaquille O'Neal of tennis. He's outgoingly hilarious in press conferences, likeable to a fan because of his funny antics like his imitations of other players for laughs during an exhibition match, he interacts well with fans, and just overall a funny guy. Heck, he even hosted Saturday Night Live.
