Swede orchestrates sour end for Roddick
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NEW YORK -- Are there more Johanssons than herring in Sweden? Close. But here is what Andy Roddick, abruptly ex-US Open champ, is wondering: Of all the thousands of Johanssons on the loose in the homeland of Bjorn Borg, Stefan Edberg, Mats Wilander, Anita Ekberg, Jenny Lind, Ingmar Bergman, and smorgasbord, why did poor Roddick have to bump into a ...
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Andy Roddick and James Blake battled to victory on a difficult surface to give the United States a 2-0 start to their defense of the Davis Cup in Friday's matches.
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Defending champion Andy Roddick finally met a seeded veteran in the third round of the US Open. Something of a challenge, right? Coming close to a perfect serving day, the American star rolled into the round of 16 by overwhelming No.
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ATHENS, Greece - Andy Roddick hit one last errant shot into the net and hung his head, his medal hopes over. A short while later, Venus Williams was gone, too...
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The United States was eliminated from the Davis Cup semifinals Sunday when Andy Roddick lost 17-15 to Russia's Dmitry Tursunov in a fifth-set marathon that concluded a match lasting nearly five hours. The Americans trailed 2-1 entering the last day of the best-of-five competition and needed singles victories from Roddick and Blake to advance.
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Andy Roddick stormed into the semifinal of the Thailand Open on Friday, beating Thomas Johansson of Sweden 6-3, 6-4 in just 43 minutes.
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U.S. number one Andy Roddick will have an awkward indoor clay court to contend with when he gets his team's Davis Cup defence underway against Austria's Juergen Melzer on Friday.
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Defending champion Andy Roddick was  surprisingly bounced out of the U.S. Open on Thursday, beaten  6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-4, by big-serving Swede Joachim Johansson  in a pulsating quarter-final.
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The United States and Sweden are tied at 1-1 after the opening singles matches of their Davis Cup semifinal in Goteborg, Sweden.
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Andy Roddick used his big serve to put the United States in the Davis Cup finals, defeating Jonas Bjorkman 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-4 Sunday to give the Americans an insurmountable 3-1 lead over Sweden.
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Andy Roddick and Roger Federer both found themselves mired in three-set struggles Tuesday night at the Olympics. Roddick pulled out a dramatic victory. Federer didn't.
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US Open semi-finalist Joachim Johansson suffered a surprise defeat by fellow Swede Robin Soderling at the Lyon Grand Prix Friday. Soderling, ranked 47th in the world, won their quarter-final 6-3, 6-4 in 58 minutes.
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Tennis Andy Roddick helped make history yesterday, yet he was in no mood to celebrate. After nearly five hours of punishing, draining tennis in Moscow, the United States was knocked out of the Davis Cup in the semifinals when Roddick lost, 17-15, to Russia's Dmitry Tursunov in a fifth-set marathon. ``You feel like you let your teammates down and your ...
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Behind a roaring serve, Andy Roddick defeats Jonas Bjorkman, 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-4, in a clinching victory over Sweden that carries the United States into the Davis Cup finals.
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NEW YORK -- Jimmy Connors's arms, clad in white oxford, hung nonchalantly over the railing separating Andy Roddick's box seats from the blue-and-green hardcourt beneath. Little emotion, until that last short volley pushed Roddick into the US Open final, crossed the face of the man who had shown so much emotion in this tournament in the past.
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Andy Roddick defeated Jonas Bjorkman, 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-4, in a clinching victory against Sweden in Goteborg yesterday, carrying the United States into the Davis Cup finals.
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Andy Roddick and James Blake will lead the United States team in this month's Davis Cup semi-final against Sweden in Gothenburg.