Murray, Roddick and Hewitt Advance
June 28, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Tennis
It took USA’s Andy Roddick 2 hours, 53 minutes to advance to the fourth round at Wimbledon but the important thing is that he did it. The sixth-seeded player beat 26th-seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 6-3 despite the fact that Melzer managed to fire 26 aces.
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The end of the match was predictable – Melzer and Roddick have battled nine times in the past and the Austrian has lost every single time. Since Roddick has been the runner-up to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in both 2004 and 2005, I’m sure his mind is beginning to wonder if history will repeat itself. Roddick will play Czech Tomas Berdych in the fourth round.
Andy Murray has also advanced to the fourth round and I’m sure the British player’s hopes have been boistered by yesterday’s 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win over Serb Viktor Troicki on the Centre Court at the All England Club. The victory only took 1 hour, 36 minutes during which Murray served 17 aces. He is hoping to become the first male British champion at Wimbledon since Fred Perry won in 1936. He will face Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka in the fourth round.
Meanwhile, unseeded Lleyton Hewitt beat Germany’s Philipp Petzschner 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. Hewitt, who won the Wimbledon title in 2002, will face Czech Radek Stepanek in the fourth round.
