Joachim Johansson showed amazing power eliminating Andy Roddick in the US OPEN’s quarter finals!
Five memorable sets: 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-4
This guy has some future! He served a load of aces, kept his cool and most importantly, won every breakpoint he had!
Looks like BORG & WILANDER have a succesor now…
And the cool thing is that Wilander kind of predicted the outcome last night during the rain delay. McEnroe didn’t seem to believe him, but Wilander said that JJ defintiely had it in him to take out Roddick.
Bring it on, bring it on.
We’ve got the no1 in the world, so we’re not scared.
Seriously though, great performance by the swede dude. And Federer is not in the best shape at the moment, I don’t think he can pull it til the end, but if he does, that’s amazing, 3 grand slams in one year, the last to do it was…yep, Wilander, another swede.
Who watches the men’s game? Give me Venus or Serena any day.
That’s some show those gals put on… unfortunately both out of the competion at this stage!
That Capriati - S. Williams match will keep making waves for a while.
How about the russian gals still in the cards? (and let’s not forget PETROVA’s perf. either)
Johansson looked good–what is he, like 6’6"?
The Federer - Agassi match was a classic too.
I miss the play of McEnroe, Connors, Lendl, Becker, Wilander and Borg.
Serena is by far the most athletically muscular woman out there, but I’m most disappointed that Sharapova is out 
personally (in terms of women’s tennis) I miss the days where players were mostly SILENT and didn’t scream like banshees at every point, I mean, come on, it’s totally unnecessary IMHO. IIRC it was Monica Seles who started the trend, I remember at one point while she was playing Steffi Graf that they wanted to put a scream-o-meter on or something because it was too distracting. Nowadays it seems nearly all women do it for some reason.
Definitely miss the good old Lendl/Edberg rivalry, was never a fan of Becker or Sampras myself (too much serve & volley, boooo-ring), thanks to ESPNC I sometimes can watch some good old matches (Borg/Lendl for example) and wonder just how strong those players could’ve been if they had access to modern rackets instead of those tiny wooden thingies…