Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships
March 16, 2008
I added HQ pics of Andy in the semi-final and final of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships I added some HQ pics of last yesterdays match against Rafael Nadal 053 x Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships: Semi Final - Against Novak Djokovic 047 x Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships: Final - Against Feliciano Lopez Pacific Life Open: Andy Roddick, March 14, 2008 Q. Got to be feeling good after that tournament win, Andy? Took down a couple big scalps there? ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, I feel really good. I hit the ball real clean. I told you in San Jose I thought I was close to playing really good tennis, and that came around in Dubai. So it was a good week. Q. What made you feel you were close to playing really good tennis? ANDY RODDICK: You know, you wish you could put a finger on it. It’s something about you’re in a match, even when you’re in a tough one, when you feel like you’re about to play well you play well and you feel like you’re going to win it. When you’re not you just feel like you’re just hanging on. Even in San Jose I felt like I was going to get through those matches, and I was able to get through a couple tough ones not playing my best. When you do that you give yourself an opportunity to play well. Q. You seemed a little feisty today during practice. Is that the right word? ANDY RODDICK: I’m feisty most days during practice. Q. You know Charlie thinks that these courts really suit you here at this tournament. He also thinks you maybe haven’t played your best at this tournament even though you’ve had good results. What you are your thoughts about this tournament? Does it suit you? ANDY RODDICK: I don’t know if it suits me per se. I mean, it’s really slow and kind of very high bouncing. I don’t think it’s surprising that Nadal won this last year. But it’s — I mean, it’s all right. He’s probably right with saying I’ve played okay but probably not my best here. So I probably would agree with most of what he said. Q. The story about you and Jimmy splitting came the day or right around your victory in Dubai, and I’ve only seen stuff on the wires. Are you making comments on it? Has it affected you mentally? Do you have a new coach? Obviously you’ve changed coaches over the years. Is this just another change? ANDY RODDICK: That’s a lot to process (Laughter.) Q. That’s a lot, but it’s true. ANDY RODDICK: Which part of that do you want me to go for? Read more! Roddick ready to rumble again One degree of separation. Andy Roddick has split with Jimmy Connors. Or rather, Jimmy Connors has split with Andy Roddick. As if there’s any difference. Jimmy goes back to walking his dog and knocking wedges onto greens. Andy goes on to, well, we can only hope it’s the place predicted a few years back. Roddick inhabits that slightly bizarre world of high-class tennis, the one where great athletes mix with celebrities and, as became obvious the other day when Andy was being interviewed as part of the Pacific Life Open, with individuals of somewhat questionable character. Andy is now 25, already four and half years away from that momentous U.S. Open victory that led us ? or misled us ? to believe he would be the next Pete Sampras, a winner who also was an American. Part of his problem was he didn’t progress. Part of his problem was that people such as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic did. So from briefly being ahead of all, ending 2003 No.1 in the rankings, Roddick slipped and tumbled, at the moment standing sixth. That doesn’t mean he no longer can play. At the moment, in fact, he’s the hottest male player around, the last month alone winning two tournaments, while Federer and Nadal have not won any. Read more!
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   March 16th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

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