Roddick, Federer advance in Rome
Despite reports that he may have injured himself moving furniture, Andy Roddick advanced to the third round at Rome. Roddick showed no ill side effects of the injury with a 6-1, 6-4 dismantling of fellow American Mardy Fish. The match took just over an hour and six minutes, and Roddick didn’t have a single double fault in the match. He will now have to await a couple of matches to see who he will face in the third round. This was Roddick’s first clay-court match of the year, and he has had success in Rome in the past. He reached the quarters in 2006 and the semis in 2002. I am sure Roddick would like to head into the French Open with some confidence, because he has never fared to well there. In seven career appearances there, he has lost in the first or second round six times.
The only other player to advance to the third round this morning was top-seeded Roger Federer. The Fed defeated one of the guys that has given him trouble in the past, Guillermo Canas, 6-3, 6-3. Canas had beaten Federer three out of the five times they had played previous, but was no match for him this time. Federer had eight aces and converted three of his seven break chances in the match. Like Roddick, Federer will now have to wait to see who he will face.
Three-time defending champion Rafael Nadal will face Juan Carlos Ferrero in the second round, after Ferrero beat Nicolas Kiefer in three sets earlier today. Nadal is 6-1 against Ferrero, including a win over him two weeks ago at Monte Carlo.
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