SFGate.com: 13 aces win it for Roddick

Radek Stepanek is part showman, part tennis player. So perhaps it wasn’t shocking that he walked on the court for his SAP Open final against Andy Roddick wearing a Sharks jersey.

What better way to get the San Jose crowd on his side than covering his tennis outfit with Joe Thornton’s No. 19?

Problem is, Stepanek did Sunday what the Sharks have done often at HP Pavilion this season - he lost. Roddick claimed his third San Jose tournament title and first since 2005 with a 6-4, 7-5 victory and then performed his answer to the Worm.

The Worm is a funky jig Stepanek does after winning big matches, a belly-on-the-ground break dance of sorts. So after his 129-mph ace ended the match, Roddick turned to the audience and simultaneously wiggled both his right leg and left arm.

“Everybody’s asking me about the Worm. All I hear is the Worm,” Roddick said. “I wanted to find something as cheesy if not cheesier to go with, which was tough. I figured one bad leg kick and I’d be on par.”

Stepanek wasn’t impressed.

“I don’t know what that was,” he said.

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