Wimbledon 2009

[Bank Shot]

Wow, what a match. What a follow up to last year's final.

First off, what an effort by Roddick. I've never seen him play as well as he did the last two matches. I was fully expecting a straight sets win for Roger. I've never been a fan but I gained a lot of respect for Andy today. He's got to be kicking himself for blowing that second set tiebreaker. He lost the match right there.

As for Roger, what can you say that hasn't been said? While Roddick was having the match of his life, Roger quietly had the serving match of his life. He stepped it up today and just refused to go down even though Roddick's serve looked impenetrable. He deserved to get #15 and I'm happy to see him back at #1. Awesome effort by both guys.

[Bank Shot]

And Grand Slam #5 for Daniel Nestor in doubles. Wooooo Canada.

[Doctor MJ]

Amazing match. Did a real dent to the myth that Roddick is a B-lister.

Particularly fascinating for me was how the format of competitive tennis decides the winner between 2 roughly equal players. Some observations:

-Most obviously, that the total number of points won by each players is virtually meaningless in a close match.

-They kept saying how Roddick's serve was unbreakable. Not inaccurate, but there's more to it than that. Federer was the one with the more dominant service game, he just blinked a couple times. So Roddick was more likely to give up points, but less likely to give up a sting of points. You can build a story around Roddick's more dominant serve giving him more free points but Federer had far more aces than Roddick.

-Of course on that note, that Federer had so many more aces just goes to show that "aces" aren't as meaningful of a stat as "service winners". His ability to place his serve gave him more aces, but Roddick hits it so hard that he doesn't need to prevent his opponents from even touching the ball.

[Batu7]

Wow, what a match. What a follow up to last year's final.

First off, what an effort by Roddick. I've never seen him play as well as he did the last two matches. I was fully expecting a straight sets win for Roger. I've never been a fan but I gained a lot of respect for Andy today. He's got to be kicking himself for blowing that second set tiebreaker. He lost the match right there.

As for Roger, what can you say that hasn't been said? While Roddick was having the match of his life, Roger quietly had the serving match of his life. He stepped it up today and just refused to go down even though Roddick's serve looked impenetrable. He deserved to get #15 and I'm happy to see him back at #1. Awesome effort by both guys.

My thoughts exactly.