MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Andy Roddick of Texas USA admits today that it was ‘tough carrying the hopes’ of his supporters back in the United States, that he brings back the highly ‘expectant nation’ on top of the game.

The top-ranked American player, according to the Agence France Presse appeared dejected following his defeat to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, marking his failure to break the US’ longest-ever men’s Grand Slam drought.

"It's tough. I remember last summer when I was catching all the heat for not having an American guy in the top 10 for the first time in 15 years," Roddick was quoted as saying by the AFP.

Roddick confessed it’s no fun to take the heat which he expects to get as he flies back home after the game.

He said, according to AFP, "Didn't really make sense to me that I was the one taking heat when I was the only guy that had been there for the last six years.”

Roddick, who is also the lone American included in the top ten list of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) said that earning major titles in the game is a ‘responsibility that has great benefits’ but reiterated the difficulties at times.

The US’ longest ‘dry spell’ at the Grand Slam was recorded five years in the 1980s. The US has not recorded any American man to have brought home the title after Roddick championed the US Open Grand Slam in 2003 .

This year mark’s eight years of ‘Grand Slam drought’ for the US when Roddick missed the quarter-finals at the Australian Open, after Wawrinka defeated him 6-3 6-4 6-4.

With Roddick out of the Aussie Open, this year marks the first Grand Slam without quarter-finalist from the US, since the French Open in 2008.