Andy Roddick arrived as a bit of an American curiosity — someone who had not played a tour match since winning in March, had skipped the clay-court season, was granted a No. 6 seed but had only once lasted more than a few days at Roland Garros. The French Open is not a tournament Roddick expects to win, and his preparation is relatively lax. Leading to this year’s tournament, Roddick used the tour’s once-a-year pass to skip the otherwise mandatory event at Rome. He went to Madrid but pulled out before his first scheduled match, citing a stomach illness. “Definitely, you know, spending three days in bed in Madrid wasn’t the way we wrote it up, you know,” Roddick said Tuesday. “That was bad.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/sports/tennis/26roddick.html
