Never a Wimbledon Champ, Reliably a Favorite.

It was an especially long afternoon of tennis when Andy Roddick last played at Wimbledon, and it did not end happily for him as Roger Federer -- yes, him again -- survived one of the performances of Roddick's life and held him off, 16-14, in the fifth set. It was devastating, no doubt, for Roddick, but as he sat on his chair on Centre Court last July, drenched in sweat and his latest disappointment, he suddenly found himself experiencing something much more positive as Federer took his latest victory lap with the trophy he had claimed for the sixth time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]