Andy Roddick

By Krystle Lee The turning point was at 5-5 in the first set, when Berdych hit an off forehand that landed deep right on the baseline on break point down, much to Roddick’s displeasure.  That was when Roddick started to have a running dialogue with Norm Chryst on the chair for the rest of the match, and even t...

By Krystle Lee In the first set, Phau was targeting Roddick’s backhand too often, not making Roddick move enough and found himself paying the price for coming to the net too early as he got passed time and time again.  Phau adopted a more aggressive approach in the second set trying to hit closer to the line...

By Nina Rota If the US wanted to beat Spain and get to the Davis Cup final for the second year in a row, Roddick had to beat David Ferrer, give Sam Querrey a chance to do the same thing, and hope that Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan could win the doubles rubber because no one was going to beat Nadal. Only one of those th...

By Nina Rota Roddick’s first opponent is David Ferrer and while Roddick is actually 4-1 on clay this year - he reached the semifinals in Rome before he had to retire, and he is the gutsiest Davis Cup player on the planet, he’s unlikely to beat Ferrer and very unlikely to beat Nadal. Roddick pushed Nadal to...

By Mike McIntyre Labels aside, Djokovic enters the semi’s with a 2-6 head to head against Federer. Despite this losing record, he does hold the important win over Federer at the Aussie Open earlier this year en route to his first Grand Slam title. That result will certainly provide him with the confidence he...

By Nina Rota I loved Murray’s crowd stirring antics at Wimbledon against Gasquet as he came back from two sets down to win the match because that was designed to pump up the crowd. But here, Murray was belittling Melzer’s game and I don’t like that. A few points later, Murray hit a fantastic return winner o...

By Nina Rota There is very little between Nadal and the quarterfinals. Tomas Berdych beat Nadal the first three times they met on hard court but Nadal beat him easily in Miami this year and on grass last year. Ivo Karlovic has lost here in the first round for the past two years and Philipp Kohlschreiber is 0...

By Mike McIntyre After a great start to 2008 with wins over Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, Roddick has seen his game come undone both mentally and physically. Injuries have played their part in interrupting his rhythm, but at some point he has got to get things back on track if he is to have any serious hope of ch...

By Mike McIntyre Aside from Roddick, other drawing cards include talented German Tommy Haas, Russian head case Marat Safin and perhaps the hottest player on tour right now besides Rafael Nadal, 19 year old Juan Martin Del Potro from Argentina. Tommy Haas on skipping the Olympics:

By Nina Rota Roddick should have had the advantage in the tiebreaker because his serve was working, but with Roddick serving at 2-3, Del Potro got a 135mph (217kph) serve back in play and the two of them rallied until Roddick coughed up a forehand error to go down a minibreak. Roddick lost the next point o...

By Nina Rota John McEnroe and Jim Courier will also be playing on Thursday night and Wednesday night is “Spanish” night with Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco playing their first match. They could have had a Spanish speaking day if they’d added Juan Del Potro in the afternoon. Lopez and Verdasco ar...

By Nina Rota Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Andy Roddick at the Australian Open this year but he’s 1-4 on hard court since then. Robin Soderling beat Roddick in Memphis for Roddick’s only loss indoors this year. In Soderling’s last three hard court events, he’s gone out to Richard Gasquet, Roger Federer,...

By Mike McIntyre Kiefer came back last night on the Grand Stand court against 4th ranked Russian Nikolay Davydenko. Having lost the first set and down a break in the second, it appeared Kiefer would join countryman Tommy Haas as a casualty of the Russian’s. However he bravely fought back into the match and is...

By Mike McIntyre Earlier today Center Court was treated to its first glimpse of top American ace, Andy Roddick. Roddick’s trademark cannon serve was looking good and he got by Nicolas Mahut of France in three sets. In his post match press conference, Roddick stated he feels healthy and ready to go this summ...

By Nina Rota Novak Djokovic is 16-2 on hard court this year and he beat Federer in the final last year when this tournament was in Montreal. Fernando Verdasco has a losing record on hard court and he’s never done well here or in Cincinnati. Canas won this event in 2002 but he hasn’t done anything on the summe...

By Nina Rota Wimbledon draw (grass, first prize: $1,462,500) At a quick glance my job looks pretty easy today. All I have to do is pick Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick then find four other players to round out my team. Let’s see if that’s true.

By Nina Rota Roger Federer has won the title in Halle four of the past five years (he withdrew last year) but you should obviously save him for Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. There are also four Masters events left to play so save him for one or two of those also..

By Nina Rota Obviously Rafael Nadal is the choice in his section and the European Masters events pay a whole lot more than the Masters events in the U.S., so pick him here. Instead of Federer I’ll settle for Paul-Henri Mathieu and hope he gets to the third round.

By Patricia Davis Mardy Fish got his licks in on you in pretty impressive fashion in Indian Wells. And this past week it was Andy Roddick’s turn. It was upsetting enough you lost to FishCakes, but Andy? I always thought his number was etched forever in your rolodex.

By Nina Rota Dish on the Roddick-Connors Split It turns out that one of the journalist hanging at the Media Center here at Indian Wells has some dish on the Andy Roddick-Jimmy Connors breakup. His name is Doug Robson and he’s the lead tennis writer for USA Today.

By Nina Rota It wasn’t just the wind, he also likened the court surface to sandpaper meaning that the ball grabbed the court and kicked up. Rafael Nadal will be happy to hear that. More likely, though, the problem was Tommy Haas. Haas attacked Roddick’s backhand and then threw down some smack in the postma...

By Nina Rota Okay, but at what stage does he want to groom the next American tennis champion? Does he want to be like Robert Lansdorp - the coach who developed Pete Sampras, Maria Sharapova, and Lindsay Davenport from the time they were wee’uns? Or does he want to be like Marian Wajda - the coach who trave...

By Nina Rota Three titles, one challenger final and a legend. Things are looking up. U.S. players won all three ATP and WTA events last week. Can you believe it? Whoa, what a week it’s been for U.S. tennis and it ain’t over yet. Pete Sampras and Roger Federer will meet tonight in the mecca of U.S. sports arenas, Madis...

By Nina Rota Andy announced this week that he’d split with his coach, Jimmy Connors. Players often get a bump in their performance after separating from a coach. If they fired the coach they want to prove to themselves that they made the right decision. If the coach resigned, they want to show the coach tha...

By Nina Rota It’s too bad Mats Wilander questioned Fed’s manhood after Fed’s loss to Rafael Nadal in the 2006 French Open final because Wilander looks like he’s positioning himself to be the next uber-coach. Wilander was sitting in the stands during the match between Paul-Henri Mathieu and Andy Rodd...

By Nina Rota The Tsonga match Wertheim mentions was from the 2007 Australian Open, and marks the point where I pretty much gave up on Roddick. It was an appalling display on Roddick’s part, and it just made it all the sweeter this year when Roddick went out early and Tsonga made the final. And this year’s be...

By Nina Rota I’m Not Suffering From My Addiction To Rafael Nadal, I’m Loving Every Minute Of It!!! Semifinals: Federer, Ferrer, Youzhny, Nadal Final: Federer, Youzhny Winner: Federer Semifinals: Llodra, Baghdatis, Canas, Hewitt Final: Baghdatis, Hewitt Winner: Hewitt

By Nate Cunningham ATP 1. Novak Djokovic (he looks ready to me) 3. Rafael Nadal (ditto) French Open: Rafa Wimbledon: Fed 1. Maria Sharapova (with her shoulder right, the best combination physical specimen/competitor in the women’s game) French Open: Justine Wimbledon: Maria

By Nina Rota That could also be said for this year’s Davis Cup final. Read more about the first day of Davis Cup here and see if our predictions were accurate. The Bryan twins won the doubles rubber to clinch a Davis Cup title and there’s still one more day to go. After Bob Bryan smashed the last volley and saw i...

By Nina Rota Andy Roddick and Dmitry Tursunov played cat and mouse while James Blake played drama queen as the U.S. won both matches on the first day of the Davis Cup final. Whenever you see footage of the 1995 Davis Cup final. you always see Pete Sampras crumple to the court immediately after winning a five s...

By Nina Rota Same thing in tennis. Tennis in the U.S. is losing popularity and losing tournaments while the huge Asian market is getting new tournaments. Shanghai gets a new Masters Series event in 2009 and Roger Federer and Pete Sampras flew all over Asia - not Europe or the U.S. - for their barnstorming exhi...

By Nina Rota Good day everyone. The Davis Cup final is around the corner but today we have the last ATP event of the season: the Tennis Masters Cup final between Roger Federer and David Ferrer. Six months ago I did not expect to utter those words. David Ferrer? But he’s been on fire. The only player hotter was D...

By Patricia Davis Join us for the Tennis Masters Cup final! We’ll be blogging live this Sunday, November 18th, at 9 am (PT)/12 pm (ET). The Bunny Man from Spain chugged a few more miles at the year-end championships and polished off Andy Roddick in today’s first semi-final

By Nina Rota Pat the Coach Andy plays Federer on Friday in his last round robin match. I’d be shocked if Federer didn’t beat Andy and here’s why: it’s a dead rubber. The match doesn’t mean anything to Andy because he’s already qualified for the semifinals.

By Nina Rota Nikolay Davydenko reached the quarterfinals here two years ago otherwise he’s played poorly. That’s a good thing for me because I can only use him one more time so I’m saving him for Paris. Andy Murray is my third pick. He has an easy quarter.