US Open Tennis 2010 results & US Open tennis schedule: Roddick sinks in the US Open. It was a thriller at the US Open as it witnessed some major upset. Ace tennis player Andy Roddick failed to sail through the match. Roddick was defeated by the bearded, bespectacled and quite brilliant Serb, Janko Tipsarevic, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Also, there was some drama attached to the match. The drama started in the third set when Roddick was trailing 2-5. A female line judge called Roddick for a foot fault. However, after a while she suggested that it was the player’s right foot that had caught the line when questioned.
Roddick got irritated by this. And he yelled: “That’s impossible.” Roddick was right. But he started complaining to the umpire and then to his coach Larry Stefanki and, of course, to the unfortunate official sitting implacably on the line.
“She kept insisting it was my right foot,” explained Roddick. “I was stupefied. But, yes, I did let it go on too long.” However, in the match it was his rival Tipsarevic who had the upper hand.
Roddick praised him and said: “I was waiting for him to crack, but he didn't. I thought I hit the ball pretty well. He played very high risk and executed for four sets. I kept telling myself, you know, this has to have an expiration date on it but it didn’t. I was just trying to make him keep coming up with it. From all ends of the court, just firing, pulling the trigger down the line, flat, time after time — that is not an easy thing to do and he was able to do it. Kudos to him. He played great.”
