RODDICK GOES DOWN FIGHTING

ROGER Federer battled hard and held his nerve to win his 6th wimbledon title and go past sampra's tally 14 grand slams against andy roddick in front of a celebrity crowd which had pete sampras,bjon borg,sachin tendulkar,sir alex ferguson,michael ballack,russel crowe...
It was more similar to last year's final at wimbledon and this one was a notch better than that...as the opponent in roddick was too hot for federer that the man himself found it hard to get the points...the first set clearly belonged to roddick as his serve and ground strokes were both powerful and unreturnable..the second set was a close one as it went into a tie breaker...roddick was leading 6-2 when federer took 6 consecutive points to take the set 8-6...it was more of roddick losing it than federer winning it...the third set also went to a tie breaker but this time federer had it easily and was up by two sets..when everyone thought federer would run away with the title roddick fought back by winning the fourth set ,playing some magical tennis...it was now down to the final set and it was in favour of roddick as federer did not break roddick's serve until then..every time he had breakpoints roddick served two bombs to claim the game...there was no break pf serve and as there is no tie break in the final set both players kept holding to their serves waiting for a single mistake from the other...roddick had the disadvantage of serving second as he was under pressure to hold serve to stay in the match...but he served beautifully....the clock went past four hours and it was hard to choose a winner...finally in the 30th game of the final set a liitle bit of tiredness and bad luck spelled doom for roddick who's serve was broken with which federer won the fifth set 16-14 and with that the match ....roddick was shell shocked as he was a better player on court than federer...federer erupted in joy and roddick was in tears and disgusted...but he won the hearts of all the fans as they chanted roddick's name and clapped for a minute...it was quite a thrilling match which goes down as one of the best wimbledon finals...