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Of the eight Americans in action Tuesday in Australia, the biggest disappointment was Sam Querrey’s loss to Rainer Schuettler, the aging German who keeps winning big matches.  Wild card Ryan Harrison, 17, also fell, losing in four sets to Janko Tipsarevic.  Other Americans to fall were Rajeev Ram and Robby Ginepri.
On the up side, John [...]

Donald Young is the only American man to win his way into the tourney through the qualies — Ryan Sweeting just missed, losing 9-7 in a deciding set.
Young joins the 10 Americans in the top 100 — Roddick (7), Isner (28), Querrey (29), Blake (45), Fish (54), Taylor Dent (79), Rajeev Ram (84), Wayne Odesnik [...]

The U.S. first round match in Serbia has become even tougher.  Andy Roddick announced in Australia on Friday that he will not play this year due to a lingering knee injury, an Associated Press report on the USTA web site said.  He joins James Blake, who also is passing on this year’s Davis Cup.  Patrick McEnroe [...]

There’s a Flatlanders song in which Joe Ely sings: “I thought I had died and gone to heaven/in fact, I had lived and gone to hell.”  That might describe the five days that passed for fans of American men’s tennis from the point where Andy Roddick almost took a two-sets-to-none lead over Roger Federer in [...]

Roger Federer’s decision to skip this week’s Davis Cup match in Birmingham, Ala., between the Swiss and U.S. team is like Andy Roddick and James Blake preparing to play the circa ’90s Chicago Bulls only to learn that Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen are out.  Federer’s departure on what would have been essentially a two-man lineup leaves the Swiss with one quality [...]

Tennis Channel earned many plaudits for cancelling its coverage of the women’s tournament in Dubai after Israeli player Shahar Peer was denied a visa, but tennis from this oil-rich city in the United Arab Empirates is back on the network with the semis and finals of the ATP Tour stop their this weekend.  The description of the [...]

It’s a long drop from the number one and two rankings in Switzerland men’s tennis to the number three spot.  The U.S. and Swiss teams have submitted rosters for the March 6-8 matches in Birmingham, and as expected instead of putting up the No. 2 player in the world, the Swiss will now lean heavily on No. 17 Stanislas [...]

Roger Federer has announced that he won’t play in the first round Davis Cup matches against the U.S. in Birmingham, but Davis Cup rules allow him to change his mind right up until one hour before the matches are played on Friday, March 6.  
When the U.S. played Russia in the Davis Cup final in 2007, the Americans [...]

Roger Federer beamed holding his Olympic gold medal in doubles last August, and in October vowed to compete again for his home country of Switzerland in the 2009 Davis Cup.  But Tuesday that promising vow rang hollow when he put this paragraph on his web site:  “Today I am disappointed to announce that I am withdrawing from both [...]

In no other event is home court a bigger advantage than in Davis Cup.   The home team selects a surface suited to its team, and traditionally staid tennis fans all turn raucous in favor of the hosts.  When the U.S. and Switzerland square off in Birmingham, Ala., on March 6-8, the Americans would figure to be the [...]