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he lost three finals to fed and a couple semis/quaters, soo i would say he woulda probably won 2 or 3 more slams.
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Sounds about right. With all that people rag on him, he has done quite well in the era of Federer/Nadal and now Djokovic.
So you think he'll do better in a Sampras-Agassi era? An old Agassi completely owned Roddick, and an old Sampras straight setted a young Roddick in a slam event, USO to be exact. I don't see him going toe-to-toe with these guys in their primes.
So you think he'll do better in a Sampras-Agassi era? An old Agassi completely owned Roddick, and an old Sampras straight setted a young Roddick in a slam event, USO to be exact. I don't see him going toe-to-toe with these guys in their primes.
taking this 'what-if' further. here are who I think would've won(& the finalists) of all the non clay majors since '03 W if Fed wasn't around)
'03 W Philippoussis d Roddick
'04 AO Nalbandian d Safin
'04 W Roddick d Hewitt
'04 USO Hewitt d Agassi
'05 W Hewitt d Roddick
'06 W Nadal d Ancic
'06 USO Blake d Roddick
'07 AO Roddick d Gonzalez
'07 W Nadal d Ferrero
'07 USO Djokovic d Roddick
dont agree with the bolded ones, did u see the way roddick played against fed in 07 uso? he lost in two tie breakers and they were not one sided tie breakers either, imo it was almost 50-50 that the ties coulda went to roddick and if it did he woulda muscled one last set to most likely take fed and after that he would but too great of a fight for djokovic esp since djo looks like he thinks he can beat roddick easily.
Ferrero in the 2007 Wimbledon final!?!?
Look at the draw(specifically Fed's half)
The winner of the Fed-Ferrero QF had a few days off while Gasquet had to go 5 vs Roddick late in the day the day before the SF's. I think anyone would have beaten Gasquet in the SF that day, he was exhausted.
Plus, is picking Ferrero over Gasquet in a major SF really that big an upset? The guy's kinda a flake.
And Ferrero was playing some of the best tennis I've seen from him in years at that event, Blake didn't get a point on his serve in one set in the match they played earlier in that event.
Well Gasquet and Roddick dont even neccessarily play in the quarters without Federer. The draw is completely re-arranged in the case Federer is non-existant.
dont agree with the bolded ones, did u see the way roddick played against fed in 07 uso? he lost in two tie breakers and they were not one sided tie breakers either, imo it was almost 50-50 that the ties coulda went to roddick and if it did he woulda muscled one last set to most likely take fed and after that he would but too great of a fight for djokovic esp since djo looks like he thinks he can beat roddick easily.
Djokovic took Federer to 2 tie breaks to in the final and had more opportunities for breaks than Roddick did if I remember right.
I'll go with six. I know he didn't actually lose to Federer everytime, and I'm sure he would have lost a lot to other players, but being unable to overcome such a great hurdle had to take a toll on his confidence.
Federer was not the only hurdle for Roddick,for example Hewitt owned him in his prime(2001-2005) but I think he would have won 2003 Wimbledon,2004 Wimbledon and 2006 USO if Federer wasn't around.
taking this 'what-if' further. here are who I think would've won(& the finalists) of all the non clay majors since '03 W if Fed wasn't around)
'03 W Philippoussis d Roddick
'04 AO Nalbandian d Safin
'04 W Roddick d Hewitt
'04 USO Hewitt d Agassi
'05 W Hewitt d Roddick
'05 USO Agassi d Hewitt
'06 AO Haas d Baghdatis
'06 W Nadal d Ancic
'06 USO Blake d Roddick
'07 AO Roddick d Gonzalez
'07 W Nadal d Ferrero
'07 USO Djokovic d Roddick
Looking at it this way, it sure seems like there have been a lot of great players on tour the last 5 or so years, no?
That was sort of fun, maybe we should do this for another era as well.
answers please.
Would have should have could have........