Post Tagged with: "Andy Roddick"
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Roddick eliminates Blake in Winston-Salem, Goffin ousts Troicki
Fifth seed Andy Roddick won the battle of the Americans as he overcame James Blake in two identical sets 7-6 (6) 7-6 (6) to make it to the third round of the Winston-Salem Open. Blake broke Roddick very early on in the match, but the former world no.1 and US [...] -
Chardy and Querrey through to the second round in Cincinnati
Jeremy Chardy of France defeated American player Andy Roddick 7-6 6-3 in 92 minutes in the first round of Cincinnati Masters. Chardy entered the draw as a lucky loser, replacing injured John Isner. Chardy and Roddick showed some quality tennis throughout the first set and with no breaks of serve, [...] -
Roddick out of Cincinnati, Haas and Hewitt through to round two
Tommy Haas and Lleyton Hewitt proceed to second round of 2012 Cincinnati Masters while sixteenth seed Andy Roddick drops out. Querrey, Istomin, Troicki, and Chardy are also through. German veteran Haas has been in a great form recently as he won the Halle tournament in June and played some superb [...] -
Biggest tennis upsets in the history of Olympic Games
Tennis returned to Olympics in the 1988 Seoul Olympics after a gap of 64 years as it was left out after the 1924 Paris Olympics. Miloslav Mecir won the Gold Medal in singles and Steffi Graf grabbed the women’s singles title in Seoul. There have been a number of huge [...] -
Djokovic Lays on Olympic Master Class for Roddick
Novak Djokovic was the firm favourite going into this Olympic match-up with Andy Roddick, and under the roof on Centre Court he gave the three time Wimbledon finalist a lesson in tennis-playing brilliance. In a match that pitted a former world no.1 against the current world no.2, there was always [...] -
Djokovic vs Roddick Live – Olympics Live 2012
Djokovic v. Roddick: FINAL 6-2 6-1 6-1: Roddick takes a point on Djoko’s serve, and then another! The crowd approve, somewhat optimistically hoping for a third set. Then normal service is resumed and some excellent tennis at the net brings us to a match point which Roddick saves to force [...] -
Djokovic eliminated in Olympic doubles, Tsonga past the first round
Eight-seeded Serbs Djokovic and Troicki suffered a two-set loss against Swedish couple Brunstrom/Lindstedt in the first round of men’s doubles Olympic tournament. The Swedes won the first set in a tie-break, and the second one was decided after the Serbs gave away their serve for the only time in the [...] -
Atlanta Open: Roddick, Isner Advance to meet in All-American Semifinal
The evening set of quarterfinal matches at the Atlanta Open were an all-American affair. First up was no. 4 seed Andy Roddick against Michael Russell. Roddick came out firing, scoring 12 aces and maintaining a first serve percentage of 73% throughout the match. Like Roddick’s previous opponents in the tournament, [...] -
Roddick, Nishikori through to Atlanta Quarterfinals
Fourth seed Andy Roddick struck down 10 aces to secure a straight-sets victory over Nicolas Mahut in the second round of the BB&T Atlanta Open on Wednesday. After a competitive first set which saw the American win 7-4 in a tiebreak, Roddick stepped it up a notch. Appearing nearly invincible [...] -
Ferrer and Tsonga move into last 16 at Wimbledon
No.7 seed Spaniard David Ferrer and the 5th seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France booked their place in the last 16 of this year’s Wimbledon Championships. Ferrer, who won last week’s tournament in Hertogenbosch, defeated American Andy Roddick as he came back from a set down to win 2-6 7-6 (8) [...] -
Wimbledon 2012 Day 6 Saturday preview – Centre Court
A great day of tennis is in store on Centre Court on day six of the Championships, and here are some predictions for the matches ahead. Sixth seed Serena Williams gets things started against Chinese 25th seed Jie Zheng. Although Zheng will be ready for the battle, logic would suggest [...] -
Roddick wins Eastbourne title
Andy Roddick posted a superb victory over Italy’s Andreas Seppi in the final of the AEGON International in Eastbourne, beating him in straight sets 6-3 6-2. This is the 31st career title for the American and his first one over a more than a year. Five breaks of serve helped [...] -
Roddick to play Seppi in Eastbourne final
Yesterday’s rain delay meant that the quarterfinal and semifinal matches in Eastbourne had to be all played today. American Andy Roddick had to work hard for his semis spot as he beat Italy’s Fabio Fognini 6-3 3-6 7-5. The former world no.1 then went on to book his place in [...]
