Roddick loses in third round upset
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Andy Roddick ran out of ways to vent his anger.
He berated the chair umpire. He cracked his racket. He pulled out of a serve and yelled at the crowd to "shut up." He also reeled off a personal best 42 aces -- three in one game to save match points -- but none of it unnerved Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Australian Open.
The 29th-ranked German won 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-7 (3), 8-6 in a third-round match that started after 10 p.m. Friday and finished at 2:04 a.m. Saturday.
"I took his best stuff for five sets and I thought I was going to get him to break or to fold," Roddick said. "I thought if I kept it on him long enough that that would happen."
Roddick, seeded sixth, made 72 percent of his first serves and committed only three double-faults. However, he broke his opponent only once.
"The whole match for me was perfect," Kohlschreiber said. "Just amazing, to start the year like this and beating such a good guy is the best thing that has happened to me in tennis."
Roddick came into the tournament after leading the United States to its first Davis Cup title since 1995 and winning the Kooyong exhibition tuneup for the third straight time. He left with his quest for a second major to go with his 2003 U.S.. Open title still unfulfilled.
"It's rough, yeah, but that's sports, man," Roddick said. "If you don't want an emotional rollercoaster, if you want to be serene and kind of chilled out all day, then get a job serving Margaritas at the beach.
In the match immediately before Roddick's, Amelie Mauresmo, the 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, was ousted in the third round by No. 78-ranked Casey Dellacqua.
Mauresmo had 10 double-faults, including one to set up match point for Dellacqua, who finished off a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory with a forehand winner as the crowd burst into cheers for the last local hope in the women's draw.
No. 2 Rafael Nadal saved 6 set points in the first against Frenchman Gilles Simon before winning 7-5, 6-2, 6-3. No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko beat France's Marc Gicquel.
Serena Williams, the defending women's champion, defeated Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-4 , yielding only 6 points in a stretch of seven service games to improve her record to 26-1 since 2003 with titles in '03, '05 and last season.
Justine Henin, who won in Australia in 2004 when Williams was injured, struggled with her serve but beat Francesca Schiavone 7-5, 6-4 for her 31st consecutive match victory since an upset semifinal loss at Wimbledon in June.
No. 5 Maria Sharapova, the runner-up last season, ran off the last nine games in a 6-3, 6-0 win over Elena Vesnina and will have to play another Russian in the next round -- No. 11 Elena Dementieva beat Israel's Shahar Peer 6-2, 6-0.
No. 3 Jelena Jankovic had a lapse in the second set and a code violation for coaching -- from her mother in the players' box -- in the third set of a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 win over No. 30 Virginie Razzano of France.