Roddick Interview 1/25/2007

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Have you ever played anybody so hot like that before?

ANDY RODDICK: I don’t know. He played well. You know, I made more errors than I should have in the first. After that, there’s no doubt he was coming up with some shots tonight.

Q. What was it like for you just being there at the end of that?

ANDY RODDICK: It was frustrating. You know, it was miserable. It sucked. It was terrible. Besides that, it was fine.

Q. What did Jimmy say to you straight after the game?

ANDY RODDICK: He gave me a beer.

Q. You seem really disappointed. Did you think you had a real crack tonight, a chance?

ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, I was playing well coming in. There’s no reason to think ‑‑ if you would have told me this beforehand, I probably ‑‑ I didn’t foresee it.

Q. Is that the best you’ve seen him play for a while?

ANDY RODDICK: Yeah. I mean, he played really well tonight. I mean, that’s for sure.

Q. Can you just take us from 4‑All on. Up to 4‑4, you’re in the match. Then you got broken.

ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, I got broken. Then I got broken three more times. Then I got broken two more times in the third set. Then it was over 26 minutes later. Is that what you saw, too?

Q. I saw that. On court, what changed from 4‑All till the end?

ANDY RODDICK: That first game, probably the second was pretty crucial. I said it before. I mean, when he gets a lead, you know, he’s a great front‑runner, there’s no doubt about it. He kind of ran it out at the Open, too.

Once he gets his lead, just gets that much more confidence, I mean, it’s tough coming back. There aren’t a lot of instances where people have forged a comeback on him.

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