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1. Voo de Mar says:

   August 2, 2020 at 6:46 pm

   Points won by each set: | 30-24, 38-27, 33-25 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   50 % Roddick – 44 of 87
   28 % Ferrero – 26 of 90

   The first meeting between them (Roddick 5-0 in the end in H2H). Roddick served out the Grand Slam title faster than anyone before or after with an unreturned slice serve and three powerful aces – it all lasted just 47 seconds… Roddick [4] overwhelmed his two years older opponent [3] with immense power of serves and forehands, obtaining the crucial breaks at 2:1 in the 1st, and 4:3 in the 3rd set (having saved a double break point in the preceding game). In the no-break 2nd set Ferrero dived to a volley in the opening point of the tie-break, but Roddick passed him with another shot. Surprisingly Ferrero won two straight points on Roddick’s serves, only to lose the following six. “I don’t think you could have written a script any better, with Pete’s retirement,” Roddick said referring to Sampras’ official retirement a year after his US Open triumph. “It was just too good.” Roddick confirmed he was the biggest force and hope in the American tennis of the first decade of the new Century, it seemed improbable that he wouldn’t win any other major, but at the time no-one knew that Federer’s huge talent would explode from the beginning of 2004 (it was a matter of shifting of his tactical approach above all).

   Roddick’s route to his 11th title (lone major):
   1 Tim Henman 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-3
   2 Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3, 7-6(8)
   3 Flavio Saretta 6-1, 6-3, 6-3
   4 Xavier Malisse 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(5)
   Q Sjeng Schalken 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
   S David Nalbandian 6-7(4), 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-1, 6-3 – 1 m.p.
   W Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-3

   ☆ Roddick began and finished the event winning matches after the same scorelines, the Henman match was longer (109-83 in total points)

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