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Originally Posted by tabasco
Tried to stay up and watch but being in Australia it didn't start to 11pm here and I fell asleep at 1 set all. Woke up and it was all over.. fuck I hate that.
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I had it DVR'd and in checking my Twitter account, I saw Federer's name at the top of the trends and pretty much knew what happened. But then I was a dumbass and went to Alexa to check ranking of something and top hot URL gave away the result of the match in the headline. D'oh! Still, it didn't say the score in the headline just "Federer outlasts Roddick" so I watched it anyways and glad I did. Most of the guys in my tennis club aren't very fond of Roddick - perhaps this match and his great one against Andy Murray will change some opinions. dude played the matches of his life in both of those. Even if Nadal was in the tournament, there's a good chance he wouldn't have made it past either Andy Murray or Federer anyways the way they were playing, so I think Federer rightfully earned this one.
And tennis is no gayer than soccer/football or golf. Upper level tennis is a great mix of power, precision, and chess-like strategy (the precision and strategy is why Federer wins all the time whereas Sampras was a pure power player)...yea this match wasn't as strategic as Federer/Nadal last year which is why despite the length of this I don't think anyone thinks this match was a bigger one than last year's final, but still it was pretty exciting to watch and wasn't a dull one. Roddick holding serve 11 potentially match-deciding games in a row was amazing ...I mean it'd be tough to do that vs. most people and he had to do it against arguably the greatest tennis player of all time still in his prime - after having played a full 5 sets more or less. I'd love to be as fit as either of them!