I did, and I started cursing at my television. Douchebag. Henin put on one of the all-time great performances, and then her name is botched by this yutz who wouldn’t even be at the match if his company wasn’t sponsoring it.
The AP article about the final noticed the screwup as well. Justine should’ve given him a backhand to the mouth.
green_bladder, I agree that Ferrero is much better from the baseline than Roddick is. Big serve or no, I think he could have put up a much better fight if he hadn’t had to play three tough matches in a the three days before. I doubt this will be the last US Open final for either guy.
You notice how, this year, whoever won a grandslam were expected to do so on that surface.
Agassi was undoubtedly the favourite at this years Aussie Open, and he won it; Ferrero had the pressure on him to finally win the French, which he did; Everyone was hailing Federer to be the next King of SW19 and he lived up to it, in dominating fashion; and finally, everyone including Roddick knew that this was his year to finally win a Grand Slam and he was the heavy favourite going into the Open and he certainly didn’t disappoint.
Compare this to the year before: Johansson, Costa, Hewitt and Sampras. Each one pretty much out of the blue.
I’m not dissing Roddick’s game when I complain about his big serve, I’m dissing how boring it is to WATCH his game. I don’t know how anyone could dispute the notion that it’s boring to watch service winner after service winner rather than exciting rallies. I’m speaking strictly from the viewpoint of a spectator, and when the big serve guys play well, the spectating just stinks.