Roddick arguing a foot violation. His feets did the walking right out of the tourney!
Andy Roddick was clearly frustrated by his performance last night at the US Open in Flushing Meadows. The 2003 US Open champion argued with a line judge when he was called for a foot fault during his 2nd round match against 44th ranked Janko Tipsarevik of Serbia. Roddick clearly foot faulted and two-stepped his way out of the tournament! See more…
Displaying a go-for-broke approach, Tipsarevik defeated Roddick in four sets 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (4).
“He played very high-risk and executed for four sets,” said the ninth-seeded Roddick, whose frustration with his performance was clearly mounting as the match went along. “I kept telling myself, ‘You know, this has to have an expiration date on it.’ Unfortunately, I needed another set for that.”
His argument over the foot fault illustrated his frustrating outing.
Already trailing 5-2 in the third, Roddick wound up arguing the foot-fault call on a first serve. He turned to the official and asked, “What foot?”
When she told him it was his right foot, he replied, “That’s impossible.” Roddick then turned to chair umpire Enric Molina and, pointing first to his right foot and then his left, asked, “Has this foot gone in front of that foot ever in my career?”
Molina replied: “Not in my matches.”
Replays showed Roddick did commit the infraction although the line judge mistakenly named Roddick’s right foot as the culprit. It was his left.
But what really bothered Roddick, he said afterward, was that the official would not acknowledge that she was mistaken when she blamed his right foot for the ruling.
“I was just stupefied,” he said.
Whatever. Left foot, right foot…it’s still a violation. He should have been stupefied by his performance. He certainly has time now to think about it.
SOURCE: ESPN.COM
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