Serena Williams and Andy Roddick prove that the Americans are still contenders

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by sportingo1 | January 22, 2007 at 02:48 am
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This is the best Roddick has played since a good serve and a strong forehand was all you needed to win a Slam.



Last Thursday I went onto the radio show Fantasy Draft Help Insider
to take part in an ATP/WTA fantasy draft. Their draft has a Roger
Federer rule: if you get the top pick in the first round and take Roger
Federer (a foregone conclusion), you have to pick last in every
succeeding round. I managed to get that first pick and I immediately
joked, “Oh, no, does that mean I’ll get stuck with Serena Williams?”


The
joke’s on me. Serena is rolling. Besides Goran Ivanesevic, who stole a
Wimbledon after his career looked like it was over, and Andre Agassi,
who scratched and crawled his way to a French Open crown, Serena is the
only player who could drop into a Slam out of nowhere and steal it.

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