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A bad year? Roddick says that's 'a stretch'

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

It's not easy being Andy Roddick. No, really, it's not. One would figure that a player blessed with abundant talent and charisma, who went 59-14 in 2005 and won multiple titles while maintaining a No. 3 world ranking would be toasted as a success from Shanghai to Savannah. But when you're 23 and carrying the flag on the men's tennis circuit, which is starving for its once-dominant tennis power to win his first Grand Slam victory since his precocious U.S. Open win in 2003, the expectations ...

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