In wake of last post...

Looks like Andy Roddick kind of upstaged the Blake/Fish story.

The singles final exuded a very strange feeling, even as the 5th set went on and on. The audience was very nonpartisan, seeming to empathize more and more with the looming agony of the inevitable loser of such a long match - whereas last year, there was the Roger camp and Rafa camp, desperately wanting their player to win at all costs. Two wildly different moods, given the similarly epic matches.

Only thing that bugs me is that you could tell in the aftermath that Roger Federer didn't NEED it, not like last year; he was more intrigued by the historical significance of the moment than truly elated by the win itself, and wouldn't have been more than merely disappointed had he lost. A win would have meant SO MUCH MORE to Andy - and by the same token, the loss hit clearly hit him very hard.

Oh well. Sport is real, which is good.