Andy Roddick scores just his third win over Roger Federer in 24 meetings last night at the Sony Ericsson Open, and said afterward that tactical changes played a role in the upset. "It was kind of a game of chess," Roddick told reporters. "I stayed back on the returns, which is something I have not done with him often early on. I think he might have been a little bit surprised by it. He made the adjustment like he does because he's Roger. Started coming in a lot and putting the pressure on me, and it was, down 6-1 in the second and love-40 early in the third. It was apparent that that wasn't going to work much longer. So I said, ‘Well, all right. Let's kinda go over the top aggressive.’ I was able to get out of that game and play that really good game to break, and then my serve held up from there."
Roddick added that he was thinking of his recently deceased, longtime agent Ken Meyerson during the match. He pointed to the sky after the win. "My agent was from here and his wife was here," Roddick said. "I felt like I was a crazy person because I think I was having full dialogues with him the last 30 minutes of the match. I was just letting him know that I heard him and I was equally crazy tonight."
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