Well, well. Isn’t this absolutely delicious?

The Wimbledon semifinals are set for Friday and it will be a feast for the eyes: Roger Federer vs. Tommy Haas and Andy Murray vs. Andy Roddick. I’ll be in Huntington Beach by then and plan to watch the matches with my dad then spend the 4th of July weekend on the nearby Balboa Peninsula where my friends Lorna and Danny and assorted others will party and also watch the finals while eating strawberries and cream.

Can’t wait.

Good for Tommy Haas, the handsome 31-year-old German who has been ranked as high as number two in the world but has had all kinds of bad luck that has prevented him from reaching his potential.

“If you just look through the years of me playing Wimbledon, there is a lot of bad luck involved. I have lost a lot of tight ones,” he told the press Tuesday after his upset win over fourth-ranked Novak Djokovic. “The year when I was three in the world [2002], I would have been seeded high, [but] my parents had a really bad motorcycle accident so I skipped that year. Then when I had a pretty good draw where I felt I could get far, I stepped on a ball in the warm-up.”

He admits that “deep down” he feels there is time for him to achieve something special at Wimbledon though: “It better come up soon, because I’m not getting any younger.”

As for Andy Roddick, he’s going to have an entire nation rooting against him when he squares off against Britian’s Andy Murray. Roddick will be playing in his fourth Wimbledon semifinal, Murray in his first.

“I think the crowd’s going to be electric,” Roddick said after edging Lleyton Hewitt in five sets. “I think it’s going to be a great atmosphere, and one that I can certainly appreciate, even if it’s not for me.

“I’m just going pretend that when they say ‘C’mon, Andy’, that they mean me.”