Federer v. Roddick - Australian Open 2009 SF Highlights

Roddick isn't nearly as quick as Roger or Rafa or Novak.

The editing is too short !
It only shows the points won by Federer …. fast , and no rallies !
😮

Andy was so good but Fed had his number man. No chance.

"Have some sack dude" 😂

can't believe this was 14 years ago.

Roddick's ball was really hurt by the night conditions which dampen topspin. If you watch his match against Djokovic right before this that took place during the day, his forehand penetrated the court, unlike this match where it looped really slow and landed on the service line, giving Roger all the time in the world to load and attack it. It was so weak Roger was targeting it on the serve and hitting a lot of his dictating shots and winners off of it.

Nadal KO Federer KO Roddick

Stifler from American pie playing tennis.

Roger looked way too serious/focused in this tournament than ever. Probably that's one of the reasons why he cried after losing in the final, it wasn't enough for him to beat Rafa.

After the heartbreak of 2008
Federer reached all 4 finals in 2009
And lost two close finals at AO and US open nd won two legendary finals at FO and Wimbledon

The way he plays it's just so classy, he's the real GOAT

As much as we pile on Roddick, I'd argue that most of us that watch videos on YT wish we could be half the caliber of player he was to be no.1 in the world for 13 weeks, five GS finals appearances and one title, and over half of his career winning matches and tournaments at the clip of a top-10 player.

Fed should have won 2009 US , 2019 Wimbledon .

Watching Andy against Roger is so frustrating. Love Andy the guy, but as a player tactically, he has to be one of the dumbest against Roger. I don't know why he decided to just rush the net after 3 shots after the first few meetings with Roger. Like as someone who plays at the net a lot Roddick is pretty average at net. Also his approach shots absolutely suck. Looking at his forehand here is shocking considering how much harder and flatter it used to be. He played Roger pretty close the first few times they played and then completely changed his approach and got crushed every time excluding 2 times at Miami where Roger seems to be pretty poor. In this match you can even see that most of the times his backhand is doing more damage as it is flatter. The times he had success was going hard and flat and not trying to rally. Another issue I have with Roddick is how he just started to be a pure baseliner from like 2008 onwards. I could see that working if we were an athletic player, but look at him cover the court. It looks pretty bad. He cannot defend. I believe he would a won several slams had he been more aggressive till the end of his career. Trying to grind it out from the baseline with spinny forehands or just rush the net with a piss poor approach is not something a top tennis player would do. I say all this because I was a fan but had to witness his game change into something so frustrating.

What’s fascinating about Federer is that he makes every single shot looks so easy peasy oh so breezy 😂

Rodick was a joke hahahaha

I know Brad Gilbert coached Andy to his only major title win, but to this day i believe hes the biggest reason his game never improved from that point. Never working with him to improve the BH. Never working on court coverage. Just serve big and whip the FH. Connors actually got Andy playing his best all around tennis. Unfortunately by then he had to almost completely re-create his game at too old of age and nagging injuries piling up.

Roddick has the ugliest serve in the history of tennis.

Teenaged Nadal, Djokovic and Murray had a higher win rate against prime Fed than Hewitt, Safin, and Roddick. The fact a player who would have been borderline top 10 (in 2010s) like Roddick was consistently making it deep in slams was a testament to how weak the early and mid 2000s were, particularly before the Djokovic/Nadal/Murray gen started hitting the prime. Even players like Wawrinka, Cilic and Del Potro were very solid major winners as well. Roddick was NEVER very good…he just hit the scene in a very weak era. Almost like Ruud now

ロディックはBIG4の被害者というより、フェデラー全盛期の被害者って感じする

man i m sorry to say it but roddick was an incredibly mediocre player game wise, dunno why americans mostly overhype him so much, he s legit a servebot and nothing more, his fh is mediocre his bh is mediocre , his net game and touch are nothing special and neither was his return. the guy overachieved alot if anything

2009 AO Fed actually played some of the best tennis technique wise Roger has ever produced, but Rafa had a miraculous performance in the final to edge him in 5

Roddick almost beats Federer at Wimbledon in 2009 that year.

Such an incredible machine of mind and marvellous tecnique. And i liked also the way he used to express his joy at the end of matches, always moderate. Greetings from Rome Italy

And in the end, the Fedmeister was just too much for Rod dick.

Coming to net to often on bad approaches against the greatest shotmaker was a losing tactic for Andy..

Federer did to Rodrick what nadal hv done to federer in clay

Where you get this video from?

Federer just toys around with roddick

wowowの映像だね…

Beautiful.

I wonder how Roddick would fair today with that backhand.

Roddick playing one of the greatest wimbledon finals ever the same year after taking a beating like this is truly remarkable!

Federer destroyed Roddick's career. It could have been much better career for Roddick but no..

After his incredible performance against del potro, he seemed to struggle a lot against Roddick but still went through a real tough opponent

Roddick's court coverage and volleys are like...barely in the top 1000. Amazing.

Who knows how many grand slams Andy would have won if Roger didn't exist. He lost to him in 4 grand slam finals.

I believe Andy doesn't have an arguement since he didn't play the ball. If he was "right there" then he could and should have played the ball back into the court, regardless of the call.

Roddick’s serve was very strong 💪

absolute mockery of roddick ,he looks clueless and whatever federer did , it
worked out lol

finally - in HD!

Umpire got it right, the call came after Roddick gave up on it/ball passed him.

Roddick had best serve action.

The federer roddick rivalry, has got to be one of the most boring in tennis history, thank god djokovic and nadal emerged and created a trio of rivalries

there's a lot of lowlights in this video too lol

Federer was on Peds so no fair.

Wow this court is really slow