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It was nothing more than a win for Andy Roddick, but an important win in the second round of Wimbledon. A year ago, Roddick was waving goodbye to the All England Club in the second round after Janko Tipsarevic took him down in four sets.
Thursday in London, Roddick was the one on the winning end, beating Igor Kunitsyn 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 for his 100th career win in a grand slam event. Roddick, who has continued to focus on fitness and endurance over strength, threw a lot of backhand slices at Kunitsyn, who only seemed to find his groove for a moment in the fourth set when he broke Andy, but Roddick continued to ride his big serve to 18 aces.
Not only was the four-set win a bonus for the sixth-ranked player in the field, but on Center Court, the top ranked player in Roddick's bracket was getting it handed to him by Lleyton Hewitt. The Australian, who won Wimbledon in 2002, has quietly been dealing with that nasty age factor in tennis, but Hewitt took down No. 5 Juan Martin Del Potro, giving Roddick an even easier road to the quarterfinals if he continues his early play.
Roddick hasn't made the finals at Wimbledon since his back-to-back showing in '04 and '05, but with the draw now shifting in his favor, and Rafael Nadal not in the field, things could be looking up for the American. Sure, he will still have to go through the big guns down the road, but as he continues to move better, lightning could finally strike at Wimbledon.
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