dragonfire
Banned
How many times has the guy been down and out in his career, and came back strong to win? If he was mentally week, most of the titles won probably would not be in his trophy cabinet by now, especially the US open title where he battled back against Nalbandian; stayed mentally strong and didn't give up. How many times has the guy been KO'd by federer and came back!!!
He's saved match points quite a few times in his career too. El Aynaoui in the AO 2003, agass in queens 03, fish in cincy 03, nalbandian US open 2003, mahut in queens 2007, shwank in LMC 2008, Haas in madrid this year. There have also been matches this year where he has been severly outplayed and still won (hewitt memphis). The guy never throws in the towel, even when the odds are against him. He beat hewitt in a 5th setter in wimbledon and held his nerve against murray also.
Ok, so he did choke against federer, with the 4 set points. He was making great volleys in that match but ****ed up on that one, but he showed his mental side by sticking with federer all through the match, and kept his chin up and never backed down and only just lost when lesser players would have gave up.
Granted, he might not have the mental strength of nadal,hewitt or federer, but he's not far off, remember, nadal (toughest out there) choked in the 4th set TB against fed in wimbledon. Everyone misses chances - it's always going to happen. Sooner or later you will fail to convert.
And yesterday, some posters claimed that roddick choked against del potro and was mentally unstable, Roddick didn't really lose that match, del potro won it and played good, roddick played good also, but i don't think roddick had a clear chance of winning the match - even when he was a break up in the 3rd because the match was still so tight.
Players like gasquet, safin and nalbandian are mentally week (safin i think is just angry that ****s his brain up) and fail to keep it together.
these are just a few reasons why i think roddick is mentally pretty strong
He's saved match points quite a few times in his career too. El Aynaoui in the AO 2003, agass in queens 03, fish in cincy 03, nalbandian US open 2003, mahut in queens 2007, shwank in LMC 2008, Haas in madrid this year. There have also been matches this year where he has been severly outplayed and still won (hewitt memphis). The guy never throws in the towel, even when the odds are against him. He beat hewitt in a 5th setter in wimbledon and held his nerve against murray also.
Ok, so he did choke against federer, with the 4 set points. He was making great volleys in that match but ****ed up on that one, but he showed his mental side by sticking with federer all through the match, and kept his chin up and never backed down and only just lost when lesser players would have gave up.
Granted, he might not have the mental strength of nadal,hewitt or federer, but he's not far off, remember, nadal (toughest out there) choked in the 4th set TB against fed in wimbledon. Everyone misses chances - it's always going to happen. Sooner or later you will fail to convert.
And yesterday, some posters claimed that roddick choked against del potro and was mentally unstable, Roddick didn't really lose that match, del potro won it and played good, roddick played good also, but i don't think roddick had a clear chance of winning the match - even when he was a break up in the 3rd because the match was still so tight.
Players like gasquet, safin and nalbandian are mentally week (safin i think is just angry that ****s his brain up) and fail to keep it together.
these are just a few reasons why i think roddick is mentally pretty strong
