Top seed Andy Roddick earned his third title at the 436,000-dollar SAP Open ATP tennis tournament here Sunday with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic.

Roddick, 25, who won back-to-back titles here in 2004-05, claimed his 24th career title with the win over the fourth-seeded Stepanek.

Roddick broke Stepanek in the first game of the match and again in the penultimate game to close out the victory in 1hr 20min.

He improved to 4-0 all-time against Stepanek.

The past two years here, Roddick was ousted in the semi-finals by Scotland’s Andy Murray, who elected to stay in Europe this year and not defend his title.

Roddick was playing in his first ATP final since earning the title in Washington last August.

In his only other ATP Tour appearance this year, world No. 6 Roddick lost in five sets to Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber in the third round of the Australian Open.

Roddick did help the United States open defense of its Davis Cup title with a 4-1 first-round victory over Austria earlier this month.

Stepanek, 29, was playing in a final for the first time since winning his second career title in Los Angeles last July. His other title came at Rotterdam in 2006.
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Andy Roddick is returning to World Team Tennis and the St. Louis Aces for one match this summer.

The Aces announcement on Tuesday did not specify which of seven home matches will feature Roddick, currently ranked sixth. The WTT schedule runs from July 3rd through July 23rd.

The team says it hopes to announce that additional top-10 players will be coming to St. Louis in the next few weeks when the WTT’s official schedule is announced.

Roddick last played in St. Louis in 2005.

Season tickets are currently available. Individual match tickets are on sale June 1.
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I added alot of pictures of the 2008 Davic Cup matches and press conference. Some of these were send to me by Maria.