Former top-ranked Andy Roddick won his second title of the 2012 season after beating Gilles Muller 1-6, 7-6(2), 6-2 at the BB&T Atlanta Open final on Sunday. This is the first event of the 2012 Emirates Airline US Open Series and the title win places the 29-year old American in the lead of the bonus standings.
“I know by now the score of a set is irrelevant. Whether it’s 7-6 or 6-1, it still counts the same,” said Roddick.
“With most other sports, you get way up in the first quarter and it actually means something in regards to the rest of the game. In tennis, it’s not really the case too often, with the exception of momentum. You just try to start over and put some holds together. I was able to out the second set and I think he might have gotten a little tired in the third,” he added.
Roddick won earlier this year at the AEGON International in Eastbourne and the win at Atlanta is his 32nd career title victory at the ATP World Tour.
“I’ve won 32 times now and every one of them, I’ve never assumed I was going to win again,” said Roddick.
