Don't know if you caught up on what Roddick was complaining about, but in case you didn't, I'll sum up. Basically there was a ball on the left-hand side of his court that went wide (as in, the line judge called it out), so Andy stopped going for it and let it go by. Belucci challenged, the ball was actually in, and after a moment, the chair umpire gave the point to Belucci, saying that Andy had stopped going for it and would have let it go by him. Andy disagreed, saying he only stopped because it was called out, and clearly could have gotten there in time to hit it back. They exchanged a few other comments, Andy held a hand up and momentarily gave in, served again, won the match, and then went back to discussing the chair umpire's call, saying something along the lines of "so you're telling me that, on match point, if the ball hadn't been called out, I would have just stood there and let it go past me?" (or at least, that's what he told the ESPN interviewer at the end of the match). In a press conference afterward, he came out and
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Ooh yeah, I kinda got the gist of that, but then was thinking 'let it go, Andy, it's not like it got up to deuce and you can always just fire an ace like you usually do'. I had no doubt he was going to win that, although at the rate the top seeds are going right now, I probably shouldn't have (it's probably only Davydenko who's cruising
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The reason I asked about James Blake was because a lot of non-Americans don't care much for him, so I wanted to know your reasoning. I don't get Davis Cup coverage here (I can only watch my tennis on ESPN2 or NBC, when they carry Sat/Sun matches), so definitely didn't see that, nor did any of the American media mention it. I agree that it's definitely him being a bad sport, and a hypocrite - I can't stand the J-Block and I *am* a James Blake fan!
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And eee, Murray in your icon! I'm still wibbling on who to root for in tomorrow's final!
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