Roddick is Way Overhyped

As the biggest tennis tournament of the year closes it's first week of play, Andy Roddick was eliminated by Feliciano Lopez in straight sets 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2), 6-4. For a second straight year, Roddick takes a rather early exit from Wimbledon. What I can't stand is all the coverage that has been put around this guy. This player is just a player that serves well and does everything else adequately. Not great, adequate. He gets all this attention when really he doesn't deserve half of it. Sure he's won one Grand Slam Title but that was back in 2003 at the US Open. He hasn't won any other Grand Slam even if he was playing well like he was doing a couple years ago at Wimbledon.

The only reason this guy gets any attention here at least is because he's American and tennis isn't about teams and cities but players and nationalities. Andy Murray is in a similar boat with the British Media bugging him on why he can't break the curse over British players at Wimbledon. If Roddick was from anywhere else, they would be bugging him like crazy unless it's Switzerland or Spain. If you take nationality out of the equation and just look at skill, Roddick doesn't deserve the attention. But since he's the best American Male Tennis player out there (SERIOUSLY?), the American sports media will have to cover him.

P.S. Really, there's no one else?