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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.  [...]

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 [...]

Andy Roddick’s marathon epic against Roger Federer left him with an ailing hip, forcing him out of this weekend’s Davis Cup match on red clay in Croatia.  In his place will be his good friend and sometimes doubles partner Mardy Fish, who will fill the other singles along with James Blake, in the American team’s effort [...]

I have at times poked a little fun at Andy Roddick here on these pages, and one of Topspinblog.com’s most popular posts remains the time I compared his April 2008 “faux-hawk” to the mohawk of Travis Bickle, Robert DeNiro’s deranged character in the movie Taxi Driver.  In casual discussions with tennis friends, I’ve been critical of his volleys, [...]

Andy Roddick was so close, the ball high above his shoulder but on his strings, an open court awaiting an angled backhand volley to give him a two sets-to-none lead over Roger Federer.   I hate the dreaded high backhand volley, and apparently Roddick does too, missing the ball badly wide, and blowing the fourth of [...]