Guest who’s back, back again

Andy Roddick won his first title of the year at Cincinnati Championship - his first ATP title since Lyon in October 2005 – and got back to n.10 in the rankings. Great tournament for Andy: good serve (fired 17 aces in the final), good baseline game (impressive backhand at times) , pretty improved return of serve (breaking serve a lot this week), perfect timing on the ball, good attitude when he was playing the points (not only the big points). It’s something strange watching Andy not to try to hit a winner as soon as he can. This week he liked rallying, building the point, moving around the opponent and things like those. It seems Jimmy Connors contributed to improve A Rod’s game.
Now the issue is giving continuity, this way of playing has to become the standard. We’re at a typical crucial moment: Cincinnati can represent a real season turn around or a breath of oxygen for a slumping player. Andy is a strange guy, hot-tempered kid with genius but less than great self awareness of his talent: he needs to pumped up in order to play the way he should, he needs to find trust and enthusiasm around him. Hopefully people in Cincinnati gave all he needs to face the last part of the season.
At last, a strange thing: some people considered this win a sort of “comeback”, at not quite 24 years old, whereas other players, when the’re 22-23 years old, they’re considered an up-and-comer.