Roddick Emerges a Hero From This Vicious Injustice [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › July 06, 2009
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NOT since Steve Davis lost the 1985 world snooker crown on the final black, have I seen a vanquished sportsman wear an expression quite like it. It wasn't misery, despair or grief, although all three dark emotions must have been bubbling away behind the blank pupils. No, the look on Andy Roddick's all-American frat boy face was the dazed incomprehension of the trauma victim ... the frozen stare of one wandering away from a murderous explosion, too deep in shock to make sense of it at all.
He didn't cry, though his eyes were reddening, and nor for once did the hyper-lachrymose Roger Federer. He was punchy too, possibly suffering survivor guilt as he struggled to comprehend how on earth he had come through this war alive.See the full content of this document
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Roddick Emerges a Hero From This Vicious Injustice [Edition 2]
He came through entirely on instinct. Outplayed and dominated throughout, in all but serving he was mediocre by his stellar standards. Far from the peerless genius of old, he can no longer bend his talent to his will a...
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