[raybbr]

What's to love about Roddick? He's become Sampras - boring to watch. Watching him and Hewitt play was like watching Pong. No semblance of human beings but rather to computer generated players hitting from the baseline.

[beyond the sea]

Watching him and Hewitt play was like watching Pong.

By the way..... a serious question..... you saw that ad for PONG during these tennis broadcasts, right???

Why don't high level tennis players ever resort to serving (every once in a while) underhanded like he does on the commercial.

Damn, those are tough to return!!!

[NinoFan]

Sampras was boring to watch? OK.... You and I have two very different definitions of "boring", but as they in today's slang, "That cool."

[jjbrouwer]

I agree with you about Sampras and Roddick. I found Sampras boring to watch and Roddick the same. They have a one dimensional way of playing which involves raw power. Sampras was great at the net too but his ground strokes were not good enough to give him a chance at the French Open on clay.

Roddick has better ground strokes but not as good as Sampras at the net.

Federer is the complete package - brilliant ground strokes, decent volley game, decent serve (not powerful but plenty of variety) and the imagination to pull off incredible winners.

Personality-wise I don't like Roddick either. He is a whiner who spent most of his match against the Russian complaining that the guy was keeping him waiting.

If you wanted to assemble the perfect player - a combination of McEnroe's genius, Borg's temperament and expertise, Lendl's power and ruthless attitude - you would come up with something like Federer.

The only missing ingredient is Connors' will to win. And Roddick can learn that, I suppose with Connors coaching him.

My prediction: Federer 3 sets to 1. Maybe he'll win one of those sets 6-0.