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filip.g · 27-02-2011 18:25:30

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Andy Roddick - ATP World Tour Uncovered.

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Raddcik · 28-02-2011 15:16:53

Why March is critical for Andy Roddick

Racing to his right, with all the fervor of a lifeguard sprinting to save a troubled swimmer, Andy Roddick went airborne.

The eighth-ranked Roddick did not see the shot land -- he was too busy crashing to the court in a forward roll that bloodied his right elbow and left his baseball cap askew -- but heard the roar of the crowd and scrambled to his feet, arms raised in triumph after winning his first title in 10 months.

"That's the best shot I've ever hit in my life, considering the circumstance," said Roddick, who joined Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer as the third active man on the ATP Tour with 30 or more career championships.

Even when he's down, Roddick has a way of looking up. But was that dramatic dive a prelude to a spring rise or a stirring spike momentarily stalling a descent from the top 10?

March may well be the most critical month of Roddick's season.

The 28-year-old Roddick is defending his runner-up result from Indian Wells and will launch defense of his Key Biscayne championship in March. But first Roddick will return to Davis Cup action after a year's sabbatical as he leads the U.S. against host Chile in the March 4-6 first-round tie on the red clay of Santiago in Jim Courier's debut as American captain.

"Certainly, having Andy Roddick commit is a big bonus for the team," Courier said. "He's such a great leader and his record is terrific, obviously. He's done so well over the years and he's been so clutch

The mere fact that Roddick is returning to Davis Cup -- where he has played some of his most passionate tennis -- is an encouraging sign, in that committing to the sometimes-arduous travel schedule and varying surfaces of Davis Cup indicates a confidence in both his game and fitness.

Roddick is a more complete player than he was when he won the 2003 U.S. Open; the problem is, his top-10 competition is much better, more athletically imposing and deeper now than it was then.

Roddick hustles hard, plays with toughness and tenacity, has reached two finals in three tournament starts, and resides in the ATP top four in service games won (90 percent), aces (221) and first-serve points won (80 percent). Yet his tendency to retreat several feet behind the baseline promotes a predictable style of play that can empower opponents and diminish the impact of his seismic serve. That was the case in Melbourne, where Stanislas Wawrinka made Roddick seem small in scoring a straight-sets sweep in the Australian Open fourth round that followed a surprising second-round setback to Janko Tipsarevic at the U.S. Open and a disappointing fourth-round exit to Yen-Hsun Lu at Wimbledon.

When you see a player of Roddick's stature grinding it out from well behind the baseline, it evokes memories of Patrick Ewing settling for 16-foot fadeaway jumpers rather than going strong to the hoop.

Though Roddick and Federer are the only two active men with nine consecutive top-10 finishes, if the lethal-serving American is to retain his spot in the inner sanctum, he must produce at the year's first two Masters 1000 events, where he has a history of success (Roddick has reached the Indian Wells' final four in three of the past four years and is a two-time Key Biscayne champion).

Will Roddick, who sometimes plays predictable points at crunch time, be willing to open it up a bit, let the serve and forehand rip, and take more risk as he did in dispatching Nadal and Tomas Berdych (in succession) to win the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne last April? Or will he resort to serving big and playing prevent defense from the baseline?

If Roddick is to replicate his 2010 spring revival that showcased some of his best tennis in years, then he must be willing to take more risk. He's got to play bigger and bolder and be more willing to take the first strike in rallies. When he gets the semi-short ball off his serve, he must be willing to step forward in the court and crack his forehand with more ferocity rather then playing it safely with heavy topspin. On the return, Roddick would be wise to alter both his court positioning and the direction of his returns and occasionally drive the ball down the line.

Roddick showed his willingness to give up his body in Memphis and was rewarded with his 30th title. Retaining his place in the top 10 may depend on his willingness to alter his mindset.

Launching into a desperate dive, Roddick poked a forehand pass up the line and slammed into the court in completing a 7-6 (7), 6-7 (11), 7-5 conquest of Canadian crusher Milos Raonic to capture his 30th career title in Memphis on Sunday.

http://espn.go.com/sports/tennis/blog/_ … dy-roddick

Raddcik · 01-03-2011 23:05:24

Roddick trenuje w Santiago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZ_0NC-1pg

metjuAR · 02-03-2011 08:10:54

A z nim kto trenował, Ginepri?

Bizon · 02-03-2011 13:05:35

Tam na filmiku to był Massu, pod nieobeność Feny Gonzaleza ostatnia nadzieja Chile

metjuAR · 02-03-2011 15:17:25

Mi chodzi o to kto z Andym trenował ?

Raddcik · 02-03-2011 15:35:07

metjuAR napisał:
Mi chodzi o to kto z Andym trenował ?

Nie, to nie Ginepri. Sparingpartnerami Roda i Biga są jacyś amerykańscy juniorzy (zapomniałem nazwisk ).

metjuAR · 02-03-2011 16:30:46

Thx za odpowiedź.

Raddcik · 02-03-2011 18:13:28

Davis Cup: Pre-Tie Thoughts

Andy and Team USA are in Chile this week preparing for their Davis Cup World Group first round tie this weekend. Andy is joined by John Isner, Bob and Mike Bryan and the team is captained by Jim Courier.

On Tuesday the team participated in a press call. Andy reassured everyone he is now fit to play after having to pull out of Delray Beach last week due to illness.

Andy also put into perspective their previous win over Chile, on grass in the USA back in 2006:

“The way I look at it is that you come into Davis Cup having to win three matches, so what happened in ’06 on a grass court in California has zero relevance for this weekend. I think that is how we view it. We are going to try to get three. As far as talking about hypethicals and predicting what’s going to happen is (the media’s) job. Our job is to be prepared to go win tennis matches”

Captain Jim Courier spoke about the conditions in Santiago and his team’s preparation:

“The beauty of Davis Cup is that the home team gets to choose what they like. That’s part of the challenge for us as a team to come in and face those obstacles that they try put in our way”

“We love to compete. We’re here early. We got here Sunday, so we are here to get use to the climate, we’re here to get use to all the conditions. “

“The court is quite quick actually for a clay court and the balls are pretty light, so overall I would say our team is pretty comfortable so far. Having said that, I have said it before and you will hear me say it again, ‘We expect a tough match. We know we are going to have one and we are not looking anywhere other then what is right in front of us.”

Stay tuned to AndyRoddick.com as we bring you all the build up from Chile. The tie gets underway on Friday 4th March.

http://www.andyroddick.com/2011/03/02/d … -thoughts/

Samurray · 03-03-2011 23:32:01

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Mi chodzi o to kto z Andym trenował ?

Jordan Cox i Michael Shabaz.

Raddcik · 09-03-2011 14:23:32

Roddick Aims To Make History At Queen's Club

Andy Roddick will be looking to
create history at The Queen's
Club in June.

Andy Roddick will try to become the first tennis player in history to win five titles at The Queen’s Club after committing to compete against Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic at the AEGON Championships, 6-12 June.

Roddick lifted the giant winners’ trophy at The Queen’s Club in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 and is one of only a handful of players to have won the title four times since the event was first played in 1890. John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Lleyton Hewitt, Roy Emerson, Josiah Ritchie and Anthony Wilding, are the others.

“Over the years I’ve had a lot of success at The Queen’s Club, it has real tradition and I love the whole month in London,” said Roddick. “Queen's has the best grass courts in the world, they play perfectly and so the AEGON Championships is a great way to prepare for Wimbledon."

The 28-year-old American is rediscovering his form after being affected by glandular fever during the grass-court season last year. The three-time Wimbledon finalist lost at the third round stage in the AEGON Championships in 2010 to Israeli Dudi Sela, and then endured a fourth round defeat to Yen-Hsun Lu at Wimbledon. Weeks later, he discovered he had been affected by the virus, also known as mononucleosis, which left him fatigued and unable to train at full capacity. He is now back to his best. He won the title in Memphis a couple of weeks ago to underline his form, and then went to Chile to lead the United States to victory in the first round of the Davis Cup World Group. Roddick won both of his singles rubbers, on clay, in Santiago.

Roddick has finished the year inside the World’s Top 10 every year since 2002. He won his sole Grand Slam title at the 2003 US Open, and his appearances in three Wimbledon finals have won him a huge following in the UK. His heart-breaking 16-14 final-set loss in the 2009 final was particularly memorable, and he still harbours hopes of going one better.

The AEGON Championships will be broadcast live, every day from 6th-12th June, on BBC Television and Eurosport.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis … -Club.aspx

Raddcik · 10-03-2011 12:23:04

Indian Wells Draw Released

The first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season begins on Thursday in Indian Wells and, seeded No. 8, Andy Roddick has received a bye through the first round. The first opponent for the top American will be either wild card and countryman James Blake or a qualifier in the second round.

As part of a cluster of Americans in the fifth quarter of the draw, Roddick could meet No. 30 seed John Isner in the third round, with the likelihood of Austrian No. 10 seed Jurgen Melzer in the fourth round. Roddick is in the same quarter as Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic.

Roddick achieved his best result in Indian Wells last year when he reached the final before finishing runner-up to Ivan Ljubicic. It was one half of a terrific March for Roddick in 2010, as he went on to triumph at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Miami two weeks later.

Stay tuned to www.andyroddick.com for all the latest news from Indian Wells.

Go, Andy!

andyroddick.com

Kazik · 13-03-2011 18:03:38

Success beyond the Slams for Roddick

If there was a secondary message that came from this weekend's winning U.S. Davis Cup junket in Santiago, Chile, that would be it.

The first message: The Americans are determined to win the Davis Cup title this year. They left Chile cautiously optimistic that home turf in July's quarterfinal round can help them bypass what's apt to be a powerhouse Spanish team led by none other than Rafael Nadal.

American tennis fans have been largely spoiled during the Open era, always expecting to have Grand Slam champions in their midst. There was Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Jim Courier.

As it has come to pass, that wealth of major titles has not continued in the Roddick era. But we should not be blaming Roddick, who has at least delivered one major -- the 2003 U.S. Open -- to the list.

He has also reached four other Grand Slam finals: Wimbledon 2004, '05, '09 and U.S. Open 2006. He lost all four to Roger Federer, arguably the best player to play the game. There is hardly anyone who wouldn't agree that if there wasn't a Federer, there'd be Wimbledon finery on Roddick's trophy shelf.

If Roddick was a party animal who squandered away his talent on too much fun and games, he'd deserve criticism. But he's a guy with an unwavering work ethic -- no insider would ever accuse him of giving less than 100 percent.

If Roddick pundits look beyond his lack of a bevy of Grand Slam titles, they'd actually find his résumé to be imposing.

It's rare to find a player who ended the year ranked in the top 10 for nine consecutive seasons, but Roddick has done so since 2002.

Nevertheless, when he fell out of the No. 10 ranking for four separate weeks between August and October of last year, he was chided. It marked the first time since the inception of the ATP rankings, which started in 1973, that an American was not residing in the top 10, and someone had to take responsibility.

"I thought it was pretty rude last year when he was given a hard time when he fell out of the top 10 for the first time, that we didn't have an American in there," new U.S. Davis Cup captain Jim Courier said. "He's the guy who saved that record for so long. No one talks about that. Andy's always had the respect of the guys in the locker room, which is the respect that counts, and he's been pretty shortchanged pretty much everywhere else."

Roddick is one of eight American men who have captured at least 30 career titles. He picked up his 30th at the Memphis tournament last month, an amazing feat considering he had the flu while playing the final.

Among active players, only Roddick and Federer have won at least one title for the past 11 years.

He led the U.S. to the Davis Cup title in 2007, which was the first Davis Cup victory for the United States since 1995. Roddick boasts a perfect 12-0 record when given the chance to clinch a Davis Cup tie for the United States.

"It is a gaudy record and just another thing that Andy probably doesn't get enough credit for in his career because of other things people talk about negatively," Courier said. "There's a lot of great things that Andy has achieved and that's [the 12-0 record] right there; that's pressure. He's the No. 1 guy and he gets it done, and it's always against the No. 1 guy from the other team."

After this past weekend, Roddick has a 33-11 record in Davis Cup play, which places him fifth among all Americans who have played Davis Cup. He played in 23 of 24 ties played between 2001 and 2009.

"There's been some good [marks] in my career," Roddick said in Santiago. "Being in the top 10 for around a decade is a good one. Coming up on 600 match wins is a good one. I think those are things that I'm proud of just because, contrary to popular opinion, I've played at a very high level for a very long time."

With the Davis Cup first round over, Roddick now heads off to play back-to-back ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. Indian Wells starts later this week.

Indian Wells has not been as friendly to Roddick as he would like, especially considering the extra oomph the high altitude should give to his supersonic serve. Until last year, when he lost to Ivan Ljubicic in the final, his best results in the desert were two semifinal appearances.

He heads into Miami as the defending champion, having beaten Thomas Berdych in last year's final. Roddick owns a pair of Miami titles, having also won the tournament in 2004.

As Roddick heads off to compete in tennis' version of March Madness, here's a suggestion to consider: Instead of seeing the glass as half empty and maligning Roddick for what he hasn't done, why not look at the glass as half full and admire the 28-year-old for what he has achieved.

http://espn.go.com/sports/tennis/blog/_ … ms-roddick

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Raddcik · 14-03-2011 15:53:16

Roddick Reaches Third Round at BNP Paribas Open

After one hour and thirty minutes of incredible shot making, No. 1 American Andy Roddick defeated friend, compatriot, and former Davis Cup teammate James Blake in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5, at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.

With Roddick beginning play at about 1pm on Stadium One, the opening set boasted hard hitting and powerful aces, eight from Blake with three from the Texan, along with a handful of break points. However, only one of the set’s seven was converted- Roddick’s, which gave him the lead and allowed him to serve out the set, 6-3.

The Former World No. 4 wasn’t going without a fight, or a break, and immediately turned up the heat to take a 3-0 lead over the Memphis champ. The 8th seed wasn’t pleased and took one unanswerable shot after another to break back and even the score. Then at 5-5, Roddick broke for the third time in the match, giving him the match on his racquet. At 6-5 on match point, Roddick fired his 13th ace of the day to meet Blake at the net and part ways in Indian Wells.

Up next, our Nebraska-native faces another American, his current Davis Cup compatriot John Isner. Stay tuned to AR.com for Andy’s post-match interview and a third round preview.

andyroddick.com

Raddcik · 15-03-2011 17:50:31

Tall Test for Andy in Indian Wells

On Tuesday Andy will play Davis Cup team-mate, John Isner, in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.

Last week they were on the same side against Chile, but on Tuesday Andy and Isner will be on opposite sides of the court in Indian Wells. Andy has a 2-1 winning record against the younger American, who is currently ranked at 33, however Isner won their last meeting in a dramatic fifth set tie-break at the 2009 U.S. Open. Isner has a serve which even Roger Federer admitted to envying and looking ahead to the match Andy suggested the serve would be a key factor in the match:

“With John (Isner) it’s tough,” Andy said. “A lot of the match is out of your hands. It’s one where you can play badly and win sometimes or play good and lose sometimes. A lot of it just depends if you can get a look at his serve or not.”

Here are Isner’s stats from ATPWorldTour.com:

Age: 25 (26.04.1985)
Birthplace: Greensboro,North Carolina USA
Residence: Tampa, Florida, USA
Height: 6’9″ (206 cm)
Weight: 245 lbs (111 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: 2007

Stay tuned to AndyRoddick.com as we bring you all the latest from Indian Wells.

http://www.andyroddick.com/2011/03/14/t … ian-wells/

Raddcik · 16-03-2011 15:23:06

Milestone Win in the Desert

Andy earned his 150th Master 1000 win Tuesday night at the BNP Paribas Open and booked a spot in the fourth round with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over compatriot John Isner. Andy’s historic achievement gives him a 150-60 record in the Masters, which is the fifth best since 1990.

Andy clinched all three break point opportunities in the match that lasted 67 minutes and only gave up seven points on his serve. The first break was at 5-5 in the opening set, setting up Andy to serve out the set 7-5. The Number One American immediately broke in the second set, setting a dominating pace. Isner impressed fans by firing 15 aces as the Davis Cup teammates put on quite a show under the lights. In the end, Andy’s consistent control of the match earned him a spot in the Fourth round.

Next, Andy will face Richard Gasquet. Check back to AndyRoddick.com for more updates from the BNP Paribas Open.

http://www.andyroddick.com/2011/03/16/m … he-desert/

Raddcik · 17-03-2011 20:01:29

Andy w tym roku nie zamierza odpoczywać w trakcie sezonu na piachu.

Kalendarz na Clay 2011:

- Madryt
- Rzym
- Nicea

http://www.andyroddick.com/schedule/

Evans · 17-03-2011 20:03:42

Moim zdaniem z Rzymu i Madrytu pewnie się wycofa i ewentualnie potrenuje sobie w Nicei.

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Raddcik · 17-03-2011 20:07:14

Evans napisał:
Moim zdaniem z Rzymu i Madrytu pewnie się wycofa i ewentualnie potrenuje sobie w Nicei.

Nie ma opcji. Będzie chciał powalczyć o jak najwyższe rozstawienie na Wimblu, każde 90,180 pkt zdobyte będą bardzo cenne.

DUN I LOVE · 17-03-2011 20:08:17

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Andy w tym roku nie zamierza odpoczywać w trakcie sezonu na piachu.

Kalendarz na Clay 2011:

- Madryt
- Rzym
- Nicea

http://www.andyroddick.com/schedule/

Wszystko pod trawę. W tym wieku chyba trudniej o formę, gdy się wchodzi do gry po dłuższej przerwie, na tzw. świeżości. Wystarczy porównać intensywność gry Roddicka na cegle w latach 2009-2010 i zestawić ze sobą wyniki uzyskiwane w tych latach na Wimbledonie. Andy wie, że w żadnym z tych turniejów nie ugra niczego wielkiego, ale przynajmniej rozegra pewną ilość gier, co będzie stanowić przetarcie przed drugą, priorytetową dla niego część sezonu.

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