For some well-chosen but dismal descriptions of the state of the American team, check out Jonathan Scott on Tennis.com who concludes his article “U.S. Davis Cup Team Walks the Plank” this way:  “Down for the count. Dead in the water. Another sad metaphor for those matches.”

Perhaps we should have seen this coming when Patrick McEnroe decided to step down.

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Americans are 0-5 against Spanish players at Wimbledon.  Times have changed with players from a red clay court country dominate the Americans on grass.  If only Roddick and Isner could have had a shot in the nineties when all it took was an unreturnable serve to reach the finals (remember Krajicek and Ivanisevic?) where you lost to Pete Sampras.

This year there were only nine Americans in the draw;  the only three Americans to lose to players not from the Iberian Peninsula were James Blake (remember him?), Donald Young (and him?), and Alex Bogomolov.

But there’s one match set for Wednesday that could make up for all of it.  Mardy Fish, making a strong showing beating Tomas Berdych on Monday to reach the quarters, goes up against number one seed Nadal.   A Fish win would be huge, not only his biggest win ever, but it would give the Americans some positive momentum heading into the July 8-10 Davis Cup matchup between the two countries in Austin, Texas.

Fish is 0-5 in his career against Nadal, but the way he’s playing, don’t count him out.