Has Andy Roddick EVER beaten Roger Federer?

Question

ever?

Back in the day Chris Evert would lose to Martina 9 out of 10 times. I felt bad for her

Answer 1

Yes, Andy Roddick beat Roger Federer 6-4 3-6 7-6(3) in 2003 in the semifinals at the Canada AMS tournament in Montreal, Canada. The total head-to-head for Roddick - Federer is 1-11, and Andy has lost the last 8 matches.

Some people say that Roger Federer was out of form during the time of his only loss to Andy. This seems to hold up.

Looking at the match stats, it seems like Federer was not playing well off of his own second serve, only winning 43% of second serve points. He also had 10 doubles faults during the match, opposed to Roddick's 2. So Federer's second serve was not working well at all, it seems. He also gave Andy more break point chances, 9 chances during the match, losing 2 of those, but Roddick also lost 2 out of 2 break points against him. Roddick was actually serving worse percentage wise than Federer, but Roddick managed to win 63% (28/44) of his own second serve points, opposed to 43% for Federer. This probably means he was hitting his second serve with more authority when it got in, and he won more points off of it. From these stats we can say that Roddick was simply playing better off the ground than Federer, and perhaps more consistently (sorry, no winners and errors stats). Keep in mind, it was still a hotly-contested match with a third set tiebreaker going Andy's way.

Here are Roddick's results of the tournaments before and after the 2003 Montreal AMS, Canada:

Federer went 3 sets with Marc Lopez, a player ranked 190 at the time, in Gstaad, Switzerland, a tournament several weeks before Montreal, and also lost to Jiri Novak there in 5 sets. During Montreal, Federer scraped out a 7-5 third set win against Gaudio when Gaudio was ranked 29th, and in the final there lost to Roddick ranked 7th at the time in a third set tiebreaker. At the tournament right after Montreal (Cincinatti AMS), Federer beat Scott Draper, ranked 114 at the time, by a hair, 10-8 in the third-set tiebreaker in the first round. So obviously, Federer was not in the best form during that period when he lost to Roddick in 2003 (mind you, it was still a 3rd set tiebreaker that won it for Andy.)

Andy, however, seemed to have had a better time during that period around when he beat Federer in 2003 in Montreal:

He won Indianapolis, a tournament several weeks before Montreal quite easily (aside from third set tiebreak win against Cyril Salunier, ranked 101, in the first round) and then pretty much breezed through the Montreal draw, beating Grosjean (ranked 10 at the time 6-3, 6-3 in the R16) aside from the Federer match, of course, and beating Nalbandian 6-3, 6-1 when Nalbandian was ranked 21st. He followed up his win at Montreal with another one at Cincinatti, again breezing through until the final (although no players ranked higher that 26 (Max Mirnyi) stood in his way.) In the final he had a battle against Mardy Fish, ranked 41st at the time, 4-6 7-6(3) 7-6(4). Oh, and this was also the year Roddick won the US Open, by the way, right after Cincinatti.

So it is safe to say Roddick was in hot form during the time period when he beat Federer in 2003, and Federer was in a bit of a cold form (although he was still pretty damn good, and it was still a super close win for Andy.)

Answer 2

Roger Federer is leading 21-3 (wins) against Andy Roddick.

...Roddick beat him 1st time in the Semi-Finals of the ATP Masters Series Canada with score: 6-4 3-6 7-6 (3).


All their matches can be seen on the photo below...

Answer 3

They've played each other 11 times in 4 years, and Andy has only won one match, which was at the TMS Canada 2003 where they met in the semi-final.

Answer 4

Yeah like once! I feel terrible for him! I love Andy Roddick! aw well!

Answer 5

I found an article from last year that said he was 1-8 against Federer, so apparently he's beat him at least once.

Answer 6

Yes once, when Roger was really out of form

Answer 7

yes BUT it was only because Roger was out of form

Answer 8

GR8 QUESTION

yes , but just once, poor guy

Answer 9

I dont think so.

Answer 10

yes.