Roddick, Murray, and Queens...

[MT319]

While purely subjective and largely circumstancial...if Roddick doesn't hurt his ankle in Queens, I feel he also goes on to lose to Murray there which in turn cancels out the mental equilibrium that Roddick brought into today's match and as a result sees Murray emerge victorious this afternoon. Furthermore, even if Roddick wins Queens...he then deals with the pressure/expectations of having to both repeat his excellent results and having to beat Murray back-to-back tourney's which is arguably even more difficult feat to accomplish than beating him only once (since Murray's loss the week prior in Queen's likely results in a change of tactics on Murray's end) so again even if Roddick wins Queen's I still see Murray comming out even hungrier and with a different game plan to where he's still wins today's match against Roddick...In short do you feel Roddick's turning his ankle in Queens was actually beneficial overall in terms of him emerging victorious over Murray in today's match because it retained the mental equilibrium between the two rather than tipping it toward one or the other (which in both cases I see Murray responding to that equilibrium shift by emerging victorious)?

 

[フェデラー]

stupid thread. what ifs are the worst. why would murray be hungrier. he would be ashamed to have lost to roddick on home soil which just ended up happening today. Murray's potential, IMO, is finite, where as Fed and Rafa are infinite.

 

[MajinX]

there is no way to find out.. hell if roddick wons queens and beat murray maybe the hype wouldnt be so big, maybe there wouldnt be so many murray fans cheering and maybe wawrinka woulda already have defeated murray in the fifth set instead of murray winning with the largest homecrowd ever.

there is no IFs in life because if there was IFs, there would be too many of them.

 

[jamesblakefan#1]

Roddick was gonna lose to Blake....hehehe.

 

[フェデラー]

Roddick was gonna lose to Blake....hehehe.

or not, like most of the time. and what if wawrinka hadnt taken out davydenko, there is no way murray could have beaten the best grinder.

 

[Crispix]

clutching at straws to find excuses, typical murray fans.

 

[joeri888]

I'm glad they didn't play. If Roddick had lost or won there it could have gone different this time around. It was better this way.

 

[kOaMaster]

Haas did play great in Halle and here, don't see why Roddick would not have.

 

[Joseph L. Barrow]

Roddick has never had difficulty dealing with the "pressure" of having won Queens in the past- his two previous Wimbledon finals were both following Queens victories, as were the semi and quarter.