Andy Roddick admitted that he is still struggling for form since injuring his back at the Rome Masters in May after crashing out of the Rogers Cup.
Andy Roddick lost 6-4 4-6 6-4 to Croatian Marin Cilic and conceded his game is a long way from where he would like it to be. Andy Roddick vented his frustration on a racket in the final set in rather spectacular fashion between running arguments with the umpire.
“Something doesn’t feel comfortable,” said Andy Roddick afterwards. “It’s a little bit across the board. “My forehand is just not doing anything. I’m missing it and that’s the one that I need to click right now.”
James Blake continues to fly the US flag north of the border after coming through a bad-tempered encounter with Dmitry Tursunov 4-6 6-1 6-4.
Things were a little more straight-forward for Rafael Nadal and defending champion Novak Djokovic. The Serb dispatched Swede Robin Soderling 6-4 6-4 while Nadal got the better of Igor Andreev 6-2 7-6 despite a spirited display from the Russian.
“I play a very good match, 100 percent better than yesterday,” Nadal said afterwards. “I was a little bit worried about the second set because Federer happened the same yesterday.”
Nadal and Djokovic are set to meet in the semi-finals, but only if the Serb can get past Andy Murray after the No.8 seed came through a topsy-turvy match agains Stanislas Wawrinka.
The Scot began and ended his match in style but suffered an alarming mid-match slump that saw him drop the second set to love.
“I played really well at the start and I felt like I was hitting the ball great,” said Murray.
“Early in the second set I had a chance to break him and obviously I didn’t.”
“He started to pick his game up and it actually got very windy. I missed the ball completely three or four times.”
He is joined in the quarter-final draw by Gilles Simon, who maintained the form that saw him beat Federer in the second round to cruise past Jose Acasuso 6-3 6-4.
