Andy Roddick

If you haven't seen a TV today one of the best matches ever was played at Wimbledon to decide the men's championship and our white knight Andy Roddick fell in an epic 5th set 16-14 to Roger Federer, the best player to ever pick up a racket. You can't help but feel miserable for Andy Roddick.

Roddick was an up-and-comer with an unthinkable serve and a big forehand. He then started dating Mandy Moore and has always been a popular pop-culture icon. He won the 2001 US Open and is a good tennis player based on the fact that ALMOST nobody can return his serve and he works VERY hard. I emphasize how hard he works because he's apparently in the best shape he's ever been in and I don't think any other player has worked as hard in the past few years as Roddick.

That having been said he lives in the dreaded Federer Era of tennis where all other players are obsolete besides Nadal when he's healthy, which is so rare because how he plays. Roddick has lost to Federer 3 times in the Wimbledon finals now and you can't help but feel bad for the guy. Federer mentions every time he beats him how he feels bad for Roddick because he's such a nice guy who plays as hard as he can. You never hear anything bad about him. They struggle to find words to talk about how nice he is just like they struggle to find words to describe how good Federer plays. Roddick should legitimately have 3 more majors than he does, but he can only cling to his one miraculous US Open major that he should be proud of, but lucked out to win because David Nalbandian is an epic choker.

Bottom line is Roddick seems like a guy you'd love to hang out with and he's too nice to have the horrible fate of getting shit-kicked by Federer for the rest of his career. He's 26, so sadly in tennis years he's on the downslope of his career and I think he needs our prayers. I'm being sarcastic, but I feel terrible for the guy who just isn't near as good of a player as Federer because nobody is. Hopefully his beautiful, SI swimsuit model wife Brooklyn Decker takes care of him, because he deserves only the best.