Roger v. Andy

Test Ticker

Please support Mother Jones with a year-end donation. The truth is, we're a long way from our $600,000 goal, and we have to get as close as we can by Tuesday so we don't have to make hard decisions come January. If you value our reporting, please consider pitching in today.

$600,000

We still need to raise 400,000: Whether you can give $5 or $500, it all matters.

Please support Mother Jones with a year-end donation. We need to raise $600,000, or get as close as we can, by Tuesday so we don't need to make hard decisions come January. Whether you can give $5 or $500, it all makes a difference.

Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.

I feel like I ought to have a post about the Federer vs. Roddick match at Wimbledon today, but I have oddly little to say. The fact is, despite the spectacular final score, it didn’t feel like that great a match to me. Roddick dropping six consecutive points in the second set tiebreaker set a bad tone, and the rest of the match was basically just a serve-a-thon. That’s Wimbledon for you, of course, but in the end it just didn’t have the feel of an epic contest. How is that possible for something that ended 16-14 in the fifth? I’m not sure.

Still, it was great to see Federer get #15. If Nadal doesn’t get his bum knee back in shape soon, Federer is going to end his career with a grand slam record somewhere in the 20s. Amazing.