I have been longing for the USTA to do something big and fantastic for the next Davis Cup home match, instead of recent choices of smallish venues in tired indoor arenas in second-tier cities like Winston-Salem, N.C., Portland, Ore., or Birmingham, Ala.  The call for proposals from prospective hosts for a quarterfinal match July 9-11 went out [...]

The U.S. will play Serbia — presumably led by Novak Djokovic — in the first round of the 2010 Davis Cup on March 5-7, 2010.  The draw was announced today. 
Because the two countries have never played, the home court advantage for Serbia was decided by a “drawing of lots.”   You can be sure it will be slow red [...]

For Davis Cup coverage and live scores, check out what in my mind is the best web site in the game of tennis:  www.daviscup.com.

The U.S. Davis Cup team will find out their next opponent on September 23 when the draw for 2010 is conducted.  Whom they play will determine where the match in the first weekend of March is played.  Davis Cup matches alternate from home and away, regardless of the time passed since the last match between nations.  [...]

There will be no Davis Cup matches in the states this fall.  The Croatian team on Sunday continued its dominance of the U.S., winning the team quarterfinal match to go 3-0 all time against the Americans in Davis Cup.  The Croats, who first played Davis Cup in 1993 after breaking off from Yugoslavia, remain the only team in [...]

Check out www.daviscup.com for live scores from all the matches, including the final day of the U.S.-Croatia quarterfinal featuring James Blake against Marin Cilic, and Mardy Fish against Ivo Karlovic.
The TV coverage starts at 10 a.m. Sunday, and full schedule can be found online at the Tennis Channel web site.

The U.S. Davis Cup team needs to win both singles matches Sunday to defeat the Croatians – if they do so, it would be the first meaningful fifth and final match for the U.S. team since 2000.  That’s when Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras teamed to come from back from being down two matches to one against [...]

The twins got an easy win over an overmatched Croatian team on Saturday, setting up the U.S. – Croatia match for meaningful tennis on Sunday.  Up first will be James Blake against Marin Cilic, against whom Blake is 2-0, including a win this year in Australia.  The fifth and hopefully deciding match will be Mardy Fish against [...]

Mardy Fish and James Blake came up short on Friday in Porec, Croatia, taking big leads in each of their singles matches but falling in five sets.  The pressure is on to stop the Croatian Curse.  Croatia is the only country in the 109-year history of Davis Cup that the U.S. has never beaten, and has an [...]

For live scores from the U.S. – Croatia Davis Cup match, visit http://www.daviscup.com/
Blake was out-aced 12-8 by the lurchlike Croatian known as Dr. Ivo — on red clay, no less – but  still won the first in a tiebreaker 7-5.
Mardy Fish plays Marin Cilic in the following match.