Muller?  Muller?

Gilles Muller comes from the tiny country of Luxembourg and was once the top ranked junior in the world.  That success never quite translated to the pro tour.  Muller has had the occasional upset, most notably, a first round upset of Andy Roddick in the US Open in 2005.

Muller has only been in three finals including today in Atlanta.  He lost the first two finals, once to Lleyton Hewitt, one to Andre Agassi.  Both Hewit and Agassi were ranked number 1 and both had won the US Open.  This is something they shared in common with today’s finalist, Andy Roddick.

Muller did his best to try to win his first title.  With Roddick’s shoulder ailing a bit, Muller was able to storm out to a 61 first with two breaks of serve.  The second set was much closer and went to a tiebreak, which Roddick won handily, then Roddick took control of the third set, 62.

With this title, Roddick has 32 titles and stands 2 titles ahead of Novak Djokovic, third behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

In Hamburg, Tommy Haas dream-ride to win a title in his own home country fell short as Juan Monaco had too much and beat Haas 75 64.

In Gstaad, Tipsarevic was unable to close the deal and win back to back titles.  Though he won the tiebreak, Tipsarevic yielded sets 2 and 3 to Brazilian, Thomaz Bellucci.

There’s a tournament in LA next week, but many players will be heading on a plane to head to London and get ready for the Olympics which will begin this weekend.