Andy Roddick: The Gentleman of Roland Garros

i wrote a little blurb a few weeks ago about how andy roddick has turned into a real gentleman after having began his career as a bit of a showboat...this was in reference to him having ceded a point late in the match by overruling a line judge (roddick said the line judge would have ended up overruling himself but) and ended up losing the match to a large degree cause of it...

yesterday andy roddick was up two sets to none against argentine tennis player jose acasuso at the french open in roland garros... acasuso came back and won the last three sets.. as he won the game he fell to the ground on his side of the net and started uncontrollably celebrating the biggest victory of his career by far (acasuso, ranked 63 in the world had just defeated the number 2 player in the world!)... how did roddick react to an admittedly difficult situation? he hopped the net and walked up to acasuso and congratulated him.. later, outside the locker room he repeated the congratulations telling acasuso he would now root for him for the rest of the tournament... as acasuso commented andy has become: "...of the top ranked players, the biggest gentleman on and off the court.. a rare combination"...

andy roddick used to represent arrogance but now he represents the best of the United States.. now he's making friends everywhere... i hope he turns around his recent results and wins some tournaments...

here's the story as reported in argentina in clarin newspaper in a story aptly titled "the gentleman of roland garros"