Andy Roddick has a “hip flexor” injury and will not play in the Davis Cup. In other words, Roger Federer broke Roddick’s heart into a million pieces and so his racket doesn’t want to be around tennis anymore! (Slightly altered and cleaned up quote from Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Anyway, here’s what the story says:

Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick withdrew Monday from the U.S. Davis Cup team’s quarterfinal at Croatia, citing a right hip flexor injury.

The U.S. Tennis Association announced that Roddick wouldn’t participate in this week’s Davis Cup matches because he was hurt during his loss a day earlier to Roger Federer at the All England Club — a match that finished 16-14 in the longest fifth set in Grand Slam final history.

Roddick slipped and tumbled to the grass in the eighth game of the fourth set Sunday.

He stayed down for a few moments, then rose, grimacing, and toweled off.

The 26-year-old American would go on to play for more than another 1½ hours, finally succumbing when Federer broke him for the first time all match in the 77th and last game.

After the match, Roddick was asked whether he hurt himself in that fall, and he replied, “No. It was OK.”

So apparently he hurt it sometime between the end of the crushing loss and Monday. Unless this was a Brooklyn Decker-related injury, we’re not buying it.

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