Jimmy C — Courier, that is — became the new U.S. Davis Cup Captain today.   He’s a great choice, an underrated and often forgotten player from the era that produced Sampras and Agassi.   With two French Open championships under his belt, he might even deserve some playing time on red clay come March when the [...]

The 2011 Davis Cup draw is out, and the U.S. team will turn and head back south again — this time to Chile, instead of Colombia.  The U.S. on March 4-6 will play a team without Fernando Gonzalez who is having hip surgery in October and is expected to miss nine months.
If the U.S. wins, [...]

In a performance perhaps not equaled since Pete Sampras led the U.S. over Russia in the 1995 Davis Cup, Mardy Fish put all three wins on the board in Colombia this weekend, saving the American team the humiliation of relegation to the second tier in 2011.  Both of his singles wins came in five sets, [...]

This was a surprise, but the Bryan brothers will sit the Colombia match out.  John Isner and Ryan Harrison will play instead, and should be able to win.  The move was made because they can move into singles on Sunday if they have to do it.  North of 30, the Bryans would have no chance [...]

If there was a much coverage of the actual Davis Cup matches as there is complaining about the format, the event would be as popular as the Grand Slams are now.  Instead, we get John McEnroe or whoever else has the microphone or the column space endlessly lamenting the ridiculous schedule and the format.  But [...]

First there was the prime-time feature on 60 Minutes last month, and this week a full-length profile by L. Jon Wertheim in Sports Illustrated.  It’s great to see the soon-to-be-best doubles team in the history of tennis getting some recognition.  It has been long overdue, as the media’s attention to doubles has been relatively non-existent.

This year thus far has been the breakout year for John Isner – winning his first ATP title, reaching the round of 16 in Australia, and making a heroic Davis Cup debut this weekend in which he played all three days, including a great effort as a last-minute sub in the doubles and a valiant five-set [...]

Leif Shiras asks Roddick in phone interview during Isner-Djokovic match if he will play Davis Cup again? “I don’t know,” he said.  Adding that he won’t play this year, and about the future he doesn’t know.  Roddick is 31-11 career in singles at Davis Cup, second in wins for Americans to John McEnroe, who is 41-8.  He’ll never [...]

Bob Bryan and John Isner, subsituting for an ill Mike Bryan, fought back in the first and third set tiebreakers to win in four sets in the Davis Cub doubles against Serbia on Saturday.  A brilliant win, especially for Isner in his Davis Cup debut, a weekend in which he did not plan to play doubles.  Tomorrow [...]

The Bryan twins missed the chance to add to their Davis Cup record when Mike Bryan had to sit out of today’s doubles because of an upset stomach caused by something he ate, Tennis Channel commentator Leif Shiras said.  John Isner, who lost a more than three hour match yesterday, was the last minute substitute.  Tomorrow he plays Novak [...]