"Definitely, I think that is going to play into our hands, which is the reason we have the home court advantage," he said. "So we can make it perfect for our games. And I think for Andy and myself, it is a great situation. We love playing on 'indoor hard' and we have had some of our best results there."
By Steve Schy
Washington
29 November 2007
Last year's semifinals were played on clay courts in Moscow, but this year the matches will be contested in Portland's Memorial Coliseum on a fast indoor hard-court surface. James Blake says that should favor the host Americans.
The United States Davis Cup Tennis Team will be gunning for its 32nd championship when it hosts defending champion Russia in a best-of-five final series starting Friday in Portland, Oregon. As VOA's Steve Schy reports,
coach handhags, it will be the first time the United States has hosted the final since 1992 in Fort Worth, Texas,
abercrombie and fitch, when current world number six Andy Roddick watched from the stands as a 10-year-old.
Both Davis Cup teams include the same players from the semifinals, when the United States advanced by downing Sweden,
abercrombie france, 4-1 and Russia edged Germany, 3-2.
Though the United States has won a record 31 Davis Cup titles, the most recent was back in 1995, when Pete Sampras led the team to victory over Russia on clay in Moscow. The Bryan brothers say other countries have caught up with the United States.
"I think it is lucky to have it in the U.S., playing on our home soil," he noted. "You know, we have had a little bit of a drought here,
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samples immersed silly to wait. Is to see their own even if only one side of the angels are willing, and other heart empty, waiting for heart failure in that, after the flowers emitting a melancholy, a sense of loss dependence on wind bid farewell to wait, say goodbye once persistent pursuit of the dream, it is What kind of heartache, but also what's frustration? Why love is always with the wind? Whether to give up the pursuit of dreams, whether to give up the desire of happiness will not lose heart, it is not remorse?
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Roddick has never won a Davis Cup title and he should be especially motivated after falling to Russia's Dmitry Tursunov, 17-15 last year in the fifth set of the decisive reverse-singles match.
Tursunov will be back on a Russian squad led by fourth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko. Rounding out Russia's announced roster will be Mikhail Youzhny and Igor Andreev.
