Andy Roddick Will Win US Open

Author: admin

28 Aug

There, I said it. And I had to say it fast, as just three months ago, the idea of Roddick winning anything important would have been the last thing in my mind.

Consider me a convert.

Roddick will win. Not Roger Federer, not Rafael Nadal. And it will be an amazing day for tennis, as the big thing keeping this game from becoming an all-out boom-sport is an actual American star winning majors on the men’s side.

The tournament starts Monday, and the women’s champ? Well, come on, that’s obvious: Serena Williams. It’s a major, so she’ll be trying. When she cares, she fights. When she fights, she wins. Simple.

But Roddick is the big curiosity here, changing from celebrity tennis player to tennis-playing star. He’s two weeks from getting there. Did you see him on Letterman the other night, serving on a makeshift court built on a street?

Fans were packed watching that. He hit Letterman with a 103 mph serve.

The amazing thing is that Roddick doesn’t understand these converts, doesn’t know why he can’t walk into a coffee shop now without people wanting to talk tennis. He doesn’t know where these converts came from, why they didn’t like him before and why they do now.

It has been interesting watching him try to figure it out since July, when he lost the classic Wimbledon final, 16-14 in the fifth set, to Federer. Next >>