I always thought that Andy Roddick spent all of his time getting girls stolen away from him by Van Wilder, or having pranks pulled on him by the guys from the more blue-collar fraternity. But I found out this past Sunday that sometimes, he plays tennis. Yes, he went down to FedEx, who is still The Sex, and now more so than ever with 15 Slam titles. But it took R-Fed not only 5 sets to beat A-Rodd, but the longest Wimbledon final ever (in terms of games played). You'd think that given the historic implications for Federer, and given that Roddick often comes off as a total a-hole, everyone watching this match would be pulling for Federer and for history. But in this heavy weight title bout of a final, A-Rodd had his serve broken only once--in the last and deciding game of the 5th set. He held serve for something incredible like 40 straight games. The final game of the final set was 16-14, for crying out loud, and Roddick held serve for like 11 straight games with the title hanging in the balance. In conclusion, I have done my share of Andy Roddick bashing in the past. But the guy certainly brought his game on Sunday, and I have to admit it was hard to see him lose the match.
July 8, 2009
A-Rodd: My New Favorite D-Bagg
I always thought that Andy Roddick spent all of his time getting girls stolen away from him by Van Wilder, or having pranks pulled on him by the guys from the more blue-collar fraternity. But I found out this past Sunday that sometimes, he plays tennis. Yes, he went down to FedEx, who is still The Sex, and now more so than ever with 15 Slam titles. But it took R-Fed not only 5 sets to beat A-Rodd, but the longest Wimbledon final ever (in terms of games played). You'd think that given the historic implications for Federer, and given that Roddick often comes off as a total a-hole, everyone watching this match would be pulling for Federer and for history. But in this heavy weight title bout of a final, A-Rodd had his serve broken only once--in the last and deciding game of the 5th set. He held serve for something incredible like 40 straight games. The final game of the final set was 16-14, for crying out loud, and Roddick held serve for like 11 straight games with the title hanging in the balance. In conclusion, I have done my share of Andy Roddick bashing in the past. But the guy certainly brought his game on Sunday, and I have to admit it was hard to see him lose the match.
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couldn't agree more man, cheered for this guy for the first time and cheered hard. Ammmmerrricuhhhh Fuck YAH
ReplyDeleteyeah, amen to all of that. d-bag roddick gave way to a strangely stoic, hard fighter.
ReplyDeleteand it was fedex who disappointed me with douchebaggery in the end. acknowledging roddick's effort, he goes on to say that he can truly empathize with roddick, because he too knows how it feels to lose at wimbledon. honest and bereft, roddick audibly fires back with a, "yeah, but you've won here six times..." it's disingenuous to say you understand how someone feels losing when you've beaten him in all three wimby finals in which he has played.
federer would have been better off just saying that "tennis can be very cruel" to the runner up, you played a hell of a match, but players played hard, good day and god bless. fedex may be the sex, but he's not as nice and bright as I previously thought, or as the likes of rick reilly would have us believe.
and roddick's wife is WAY hotter than fedex's. quite the consolation prize.
yah way hotter
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