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An e-mail from the USTA earlier today set this scenario for a Davis Cup match in the U.S. this year: “After a hard fought first round victory over Roger Federer and Team Switzerland, February 10-12 in Fribourg, Switzerland, the United States will play France in the quarterfinals at an away tie in Monte Carlo April [...]

The U.S. Davis Cup match against Spain has been set for Austin, Texas, hometown of Andy Roddick, running from July 8-10. Let’s hope that Nadal will make the trip, but I’m betting the hard, indoor court will not be that appealing to him, especially if he goes deep in Wimbledon where the men’s final is [...]

In his first official order of business, U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier today announced his lineup for the match in Chile on March 4-6.  I’m surprised he’s taking the Bryans — not that they won’t dominate and win their match for sure, but with the Davis Cup format, if Roddick or Isner get hurt [...]

Jimmy C — Courier, that is — became the new U.S. Davis Cup Captain today.   He’s a great choice, an underrated and often forgotten player from the era that produced Sampras and Agassi.   With two French Open championships under his belt, he might even deserve some playing time on red clay come March when the [...]

In a performance perhaps not equaled since Pete Sampras led the U.S. over Russia in the 1995 Davis Cup, Mardy Fish put all three wins on the board in Colombia this weekend, saving the American team the humiliation of relegation to the second tier in 2011.  Both of his singles wins came in five sets, [...]

The Winter Olympics are over, but the Davis Cup, an event that has become more obscure than curling, has just begun.  To win, the U.S. has to get victories from John Isner and Sam Querrey over Victor Troicki, because they won’t be Novak Djokovic on clay.  The draw is out, with Isner making his Davis Cup [...]

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 [...]

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. 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 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 [...]