Posted at 6:30 a.m., Sunday, June 17, 2007
Roddick wins fourth Queen's Club championship
Associated Press
LONDON — Andy Roddick saved a match point in the second set before beating Nicolas Mahut 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (2) today to win his fourth title at the Queen's Club grass-court championship.The second-seeded American, who also won the Wimbledon warm-up tournament from 2003-05, is the fourth player to win four titles at Queen's Club. Lleyton Hewitt, Boris Becker and John McEnroe have also done it.
Mahut, who is 0-2 against Roddick but beat French Open champion Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals, was not broken once in the match.
Roddick, who had 24 aces, had only one break point. That came at 4-4 in the opening set, but Mahut hit a low forehand volley to force an error. Mahut then earned the only break of the match to take the set when Roddick's attempt to send a winner down the line fell wide.
Games went with serve in the second set before Roddick faced a match point at 7-6 in the tiebreaker, but Mahut netted a forehand and then made another forehand error to drop the set.
