Andy Roddick: Lock Stock and One Smoking Barrel

Notes from the match: Murray vs Roddick (Wimbledon Second Semifinal)

1. Randy is playing a tactically ingenious match. He is taking control of the points from the mid court. He has had tremendous success at the net and he has come in a lot, shoe string pick ups.
2. Mandy is feelin’ the weight of Britain a tinge here, No?
3. This was always a case of Randy serve vs. Murray’s return. If Randy is serving 75 percent first serve and winning significant points off that serve…then there isn’t a lot you can do. The KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle right, ROD knows what he has to do and he is executing it with ruthless precision.
4. Mandy needs to stop chipping returns and flatten em out (HIT em)—to have a chance at this. He knows it. This is the fourth time Mandy is smacking the net with his stick in sheer frustration, poor net.
5. Larry Stef and Brooklyn Decker look happy, Stef looks proud the way his charge is playing.
6. Randy is also winning a boat load of baseline exchanges, which we did not expect him to. He is playing quite beautifully. He is playing a big, big game
7. Pascal Maria is not having a great match: he was not sure about a net chord in the fourth. An audible obscenity warning from Mandy (for bellowing "COME ON…Pass"). How did he hear the F-bomb there?
8. They have taken down the net on court two—and the stands are absolutely packed to that they can watch the match on the big screen. First time that has happened.
9. Commentator please, number s break points converted isn’t a good metric for how good a returner one is.
10. 4-4, 30-40, fourth set, I repeat: Mandy should do more with the return. ROD has hit two balls that were probably going out.
11. If the fourth goes to a breaker, I think Randy must be feeling confident about the second Sunday. I just don’t see how Mandy is going to win the breaker the way Rod is bombing today?
12. Yeah, I was right.

Lock, stock and one smokin’ barrel.

The other smokin’ barrel will hopefully be firing on Sunday.

Let's go play ball Andy.

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