I went to sleep last night after the first set of the Djokovic/Roddick quarterfinal match, after the Serb had taken the first-set tiebreak with a barrage of penetrating forehands. Apparently, I gave up on Roddick too soon, for he won the next two set before Djokovic retired down 1-2 in the fourth. The heat was apparently brutal, with on-court temperatures clocking in at 136°F! So the good news is that the top American unseated the defending champion for a place in the semis; the bad news is that he'll next have to face nemesis Roger Federer, who waxed Juan Martin del Potro in another quarterfinal, dropping only three games in the process. Federer steamrolled Roddick in the Melbourne semis two years ago, so we'll see if things turn out differently this time around.
