#7 Andy Roddick

In Bones life he has been lucky countless times. He was lucky to be the oldest and best looking of six children. He was lucky to be born to loving and caring parents that did not realize his plight earlier and send him to trade school. He is lucky to have made great friends everywhere he has gone despite talking incessintly. He is also extremely lucky to have landed Mrs. Bones who despite having to deal with his tireless antics for the past three years is still somehow alive and well. However, rarely have the stars ever aligned in such a fashion for your loyal narrator. You see Bones had already decided to make Andy Roddick his number 8 American of all time for a variety of reasons. Then he gets out of work early on a Monday. After accesorizing and moisturizing Bones sat on his couch only to find that Mr. Roddick was about to play. So not only can he write a blog about why Andy deserves the spot but he can do so while keeping a running diary of the matches proceedings. As always the reader will be the true winner.

1:40 Andy Roddick is playing Thomas Berdych who is not from America so he is no friend of Bones. The two competitors have the similar stregths of serves and foreheads and also the similar deficencies of weak back hands and volleys. Roddick is the 2-1 favorite but when your married to Brooklyn Decker motivation is always a question.

1:55: Roddick and Berdych are exchanging aces at a dizzying paces and breaks of serve promise to be as common as all straight casts on the Real World.

2:19: As Bones predicted both players cruised through their service games and have arrived at a first set tie break. Berdych double faults on the first point of the tie break and Roddick does his patenent shoulder wind and pulls his shirt up. I would question if he does the shirt pull to show off his abs but when you are sporting this on your arm there is no need. The double fault was all Roddick needed as he wins every point on his serve and takes the first set.

2:31: With the second set in its early stages it gives Bones a chance to discuss some of the reasons besides this that Roddick lands on the notorious list. Roddick seems like the kind of guy that does not take himself to seriously. He is extremely competitive but after tough losses he often humurously mocks his own poor play. After wins he is humble but he is also not afraid to call out opponents whose antics may have been too much. Listening to him call Djokovic out for whining or yelling at a cameraman who is snapping pictures of his wife during a point, now that's American! Bones also loves Roddick because he wears Lacoste. "But Bones Lacoste is French." Bones is aware of this fact but believes Roddick wears it for the sole reason to show the pretentious, metrosexual French that he can look better in their gear than even they think they do. However, his support of the deodarant shunners ends there as he refuses to eat mayonaise and still orders large freedom fries with his American fast food combos.

2:54: In a stunning development at 4-5 in the second set Roddick notches the first break of the match and takes a commanding lead two set lead. The American is playing nearly flawless tennis. Hopefully, unlike his soccer playing countrymen he knows how to kick a foreigner when their down.

3:15: Roddick breaks to go up 4-2 in the third and this match is all but over. Bones has been watching Mr. Roddick, as a strictly heterosexual fan of sports, since the beginning of his career and can never remember him playing this well.

3:30 Roddick easily serves out the match making a man who had not dropped a set yet in the tournament look like a qualifier. Next up is the feisty Australian Lleyton Hewitt. If he can ignore Hewitt's excessive screaming after inconsequential points it would set up a potential match up with England's great hope Andy Murray. Why England's great hope is a man from Scotland Bones is not sure. He understands a brit has not won Wimbledon since 1936 and that a brit is defined as anyone from Great Britian. However, this does not help Bones understand why the English root for Murray. Wouldn't that be the equivalent of an American rooting for a Canadian or a Mexican to end a United States drought at the US Open? Bones will never know but does know two things: British people don't floss and that Roddick crushing the whole United Kingdom's hopes on Center Court the day before July 4 is about as American as Spencer Pratt being famous.

3:47: Roddick gives an interview like he has a plane to catch but this is only because this is waiting for him and he desperately needs to update his twitter. It currently says, "Damn I jinxed them." Evidently, Andy thinks he caused the United States men's soccer team to lose to Brazil. Here's to hoping Bones hasn't jinxed Roddick and we will all we celebrating his first Wimbledon title while eating hot dogs this weekend.