When Roddick is unhappy with a call, he can be really unhappy. Conversations can run long, as he is unable to put it past him. While Roddick never promised to stuff tennis balls down a person’s throat, his complaint that his right foot was not the cause of a foot fault (although his left foot was) during the middle of a third set where he was already down a break (and had dropped the second set) had Roddick berating the umpire.
Slow motion showed that it was his left foot that caused the foot fault and that his motion (his right foot hitting his left foot) meant his right foot did, indeed, not get past his left foot.
Roddick claimed his tirade had no bearing on the outcome of the match. Throughout the evening, Roddick played his usual steady style trying to prolong the points, but he struggled returning Tipsy’s serves and Tipsy went for big shots up the line while Roddick didn’t feel so comfortable going for shots from the baseline. In the game that Roddick blew up over the foot fault call, he did get in a 0-40 hole and the anger lead to some good serving to hold. Even so, Roddick found himself struggling to break and dropped the third set.
Apparently, both players held serve throughout the fourth but Roddick was unable to win the tiebreak as Tipsy won 7-4 and Roddick had yet another disappointing US Open where he exits early.
Up next for Tipsarevic is the flamboyant Frenchman, Gael Monfils.
Tomorrow evening, Novak Djokovic plays the evening match against German Philipp Petzschner. Roger Federer is also scheduled to play his second round match against German Andreas Beck.
