U.S. OPEN TENNIS Johansson upsets defending champion

Andy Roddick bowed out after a five-match quarterfinal.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Roddick kept pounding away, and yet the ball came flying back even faster.
It wasn't the howling wind blowing his shots in a U-turn. It was a 6-foot-6 rocket launcher named Joachim Johansson.
Seeded 28th, Johansson's days in relative tennis obscurity are now numbered.
He stood tall Thursday night after sending Roddick, the defending U.S. Open champion, home with a 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-4 upset in the quarterfinals.
Next up, Johansson takes on Lleyton Hewitt in a semifinal round that -- because of Andre Agassi's loss to Roger Federer on a blustery day -- does not include an American for the first time since 1986.
Hewitt downed Tommy Haas 6-2, 6-2, 6-2, and the Australian hopes to add to the Open title he won in 2001.
The top-seeded Federer is two wins from becoming the first man to win three Grand Slam titles in a year since 1988.
After beating Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, he takes on Britain's Tim Henman, who defeated Dominik Hrbaty 6-1, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2.
Women's semifinals
The women's semifinals were today -- Lindsay Davenport vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova along with Jennifer Capriati vs. Elena Dementieva.
Playing in his first major quarterfinal, Johansson went to five sets for the first time in his career.
He slugged away with Roddick, firing serves at 141 mph, and ended the match by breaking him. Overall, Roddick converted only three of 15 break points; Johansson was 3-for-5.
"Yeah, that's the stat," Roddick said. "You don't really need to analyze the match any further. Let's give some credit to him. The guy serves out of a tree. He serves huge."
Roddick didn't do badly, either. During the middle of the match, he won 29 straight points on his serve. Roddick finished with 34 aces to Johansson's 30.
Though he started the year ranked 113th, Johansson was familiar with Roddick. Now both 22, they played doubles together in the 2000 French Open junior event, and lost in the final. When they met at the net to shake hands, Roddick twice tapped Johansson on the heart.
"I expected to see a lot of him out of juniors. He had that serve," Roddick said. "To kind of see him progress a little late is surprising to me because I think that much of him as a player."
Earlier in the day, it appeared the wind would be the big winner.
When the Federer-Agassi and Henman-Haas matches resumed after being suspended by rain the previous night, gusts up to 39 mph were making the ball sail in silly fashion.
"It was very difficult. It was one of the worst conditions I've played in," Federer said. "It's like playing warmup tennis and trying to keep the ball in play."
Strong winds
Serving was especially tough.
"Such strong winds I couldn't even toss my ball right," Federer said. "I had to kind of toss it behind me so it would come forward and hope that it would land in the right spot. That's how extreme it is."
At 34, Agassi was left to ponder his future. Earlier in the tournament, he said he had no intention of retiring soon.
"Before I make any plans, I need to have everything settle down and make sure I'm making good decisions," he said.
"If I'm out there forcing the best players in the world to play their best tennis, I'm going to keep going as long as I feel I have a realistic hope of putting together great matches and finding a way to win," he said. "My game plan is to play until I can't do it. I believe with that focus, I can still do that."