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The buzz since the start of the Estoril event has been all about Roger Federer making a positive move toward hiring a coach. He is working with former Spanish Davis Cupper Jose Higueras on a trial basis. To me, this is a more interesting issue becaus...

This three-day Davis Cup weekend is the showcase for the storied and often beleaguered competition. We're down to the Final 8, which is the most interesting stage for tennis, given that the first round always has a number of mismatches. Still, th...

I have just five words for the U.S. Davis Cup squad now that the first-round of the competition is over: "Well done and ... beware France." Andy Roddick and his crew, the defending Davis Cup champs, survived the ugly weekend on ugly clay in Austr...

In tennis, we have our own version of Super Tuesday -- it's called the first round of Davis Cup, and it's in progress as you read this, and will still be in progress after you read this, unless you are a slow reader. A very slow reader. Basically, y...

It's unequivocally true that the U.S. Davis Cup squad that beat Russia in the final this weekend to end a 12-year U.S. drought is Andy Roddick's team. But by the end of the final, it seemed equally true that this was U.S. captain Pat McEnroe's Davis ...

It's unequivocally true that the U.S. Davis Cup squad that beat Russia in the final this weekend to end a 12-year U.S. drought is Andy Roddick's team. But by the end of the final, it seemed equally true that this was U.S. captain Pat McEnroe's Davis ...

As we prepare for a Davis Cup weekend that could very well develop into an old-fashioned barnburner, it's appropriate to take a look at the real Davis Cup warriors. This can be a tricky undertaking, because the statistics can be deceptive. Let's sta...

The come-from-behind Russian win was spectacular and Andy Roddick's third-day heroics for team USA were the definition of "clutch", but the most compelling story at the end of another Nationalistic Orgy Weekend (aka Davis Cup) wasn't about the Big Da...

Nobody can say Sweden owns the United States in Davis Cup play; the U.S. leads the overall series 8-3. But the American lead in the Open era -- the period that matters most -- is just 4-3, so you could say the Swedes periodically rent U.S. in order t...

They are, in some ways, the quintessential old-school American tennis players. They're tall, raw-boned, loose-limbed and baby-faced. They're from southern California, and they never made any bones about being anything more than what they presently ar...

Break up the Italians! That's the cry resounding all around tennis after another Fed Cup weekend that can only be called ... amusing. What's Fed Cup, you ask? Well, it's the women's version of Davis Cup. What's Davis Cup? Get outta here! It's...

Well, here we go folks, it's time to contemplate and prepare to enjoy the most underrated of all international sporting events, the Dead Cup -- whoops, typo! Of course I mean the Fed Cup, the women's version of Davis Cup. The first round will be play...

Just when it looked like things couldn't get much tougher for slumping U.S. Davis Cup staple James Blake, they did. Blake, playing No. 2 singles, opens the quarterfinals between the U.S. and Spain in Winston-Salem on Friday against the Spanish No. 1 ...

If you think about it, there couldn't have been a better way for Andy Roddick to get over the licking he took from Roger Federer in the Australian Open semifinals (Roddick won just six games) than the Davis Cup weekend that ended last Sunday. Going...

Well, Davis Cup week turned out to be all that we could have asked -- and more. The handwriting was writ large on the wall when obscure journeyman Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland fired the first, typically seismic shot in this always unpredictable c...

It's Davis Cup weekend, and the most compelling Davis Cup matchup in a long time -- Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer, on the Swiss World No. 1's home court -- is not even going to happen. This matters not one bit to millions of tennis fans worldwide, a...