Andy Roddick ousted in San Jose

[truebluefan]

Andy Roddick slammed one racket, broke another, argued with the chair umpire and shouted back at his own box. At one point, he smacked a ball high into the black curtains behind the far baseline grandstand.

That was maybe the only time he hit his target.

Hobbled by a fresh right ankle sprain and a troublesome hamstring that forced his retirement from last month's Australian Open, Roddick lost to Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the SAP Open on Friday night. Roddick dropped every point in his first service game and never regained his rhythm in a maddening match that took only 76 minutes.