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    The ultimate year-end showdown of the best eight male tennis players in the world starts Sunday with the Masters Cup in Shanghai—make that the best players ranked two through nine.  World No. 1 Rafael Nadal pulled out due to injury and the need to rest before Spain travels to Argentina for the Davis Cup [...]

The American defense of their 2007 Davis Cup championship ended in a bull ring in Madrid on Sunday.  World No. 1 Rafael Nadal trounced Andy Roddick 6-4, 6-0, 6-4 to put Spain place in the 2008 Davis Cup final against Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Had Roddick been able to pull out a win in his five-set [...]

Match report from the Davis Cup website:
Americans Mike Bryan and Mardy Fish kept the defending champions’ hopes alive, defeating Spain’s Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco 4-6 6-4 6-3 4-6 6-4, spoiling Lopez’s 27th birthday celebration and Spain’s dream of a 3-0 sweep in the Davis Cup. Bryan, playing Davis Cup doubles without twin brother [...]

The Americans put up a tremendous effort Friday, with Sam Querrey pushing No. 1 Rafael Nadal to four sets and Roddick losing in a heartbreaking five-setter to David Ferrer, dropping the final set 8-6.  The Roddick-Ferrer match was a brilliantly played contest, with both players hitting 80 winners each and making only 55 or fewer [...]

Sam Querrey won the first set against the world No. 1 in his Davis Cup debut but that was the end of the red dirt road for him.  Rafael Nadal ultimately won 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in the first match being hosted in Madrid’s famous bullfighting arena.  See the Associated Press story for more [...]

From the Davis Cup web site:
Sam Querrey will have the toughest possible start to his Davis Cup career when he takes on world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the opening singles rubber in Madrid.
The second match on court sees world no.5 David Ferrer take on world no.8 Andy Roddick.
(On Saturday, Mardy Fish will team with [...]

The key to the U.S. upsetting Spain on their home red dirt in a Madrid bullfighting ring will not be the seemingly impossible task of knocking off world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, the reigning king of clay.   The key for the U.S. team — acknowledged underdogs despite being the 2007 defending Davis Cup champions [...]

There is one similarity to the career of the great Bjorn Borg that Rafael Nadal does not want: the failure to win the U.S. Open.  Borg won six French Opens and five straight Wimbledons but never won the American Open, reaching the finals four times (losing to Jimmy Connors in ‘76, ‘78, and McEnroe in [...]

Mardy Fish played a brilliant first set in the match against World No. 1 Rafael Nadal that started only half an hour before midnight Wednesday, winning it 6-3, but that was the end of his road. Nadal dominated in the final three sets, winning those 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 to move into the semifinals. [...]

Andy Roddick rolled through Fernando Gonzalez in only 87 minutes Tuesday night to join his friend Mardy Fish in the quarterfinals. This is already the best showing for American players in Grand Slams this year.
Fish plays the world’s new No. 1, Rafael Nadal tonight, and Roddick will play No. 3 Novak Djokovic tomorrow. [...]