Friends Forever: A US Davis Cup squad that’s a real team

Until recently, the American Davis Cup team, win or lose, would usually be comprised of talented individuals brought together, who didn’t always appear to get the concept of being a team. But those days are gone, now that Andy Roddick, James Blake, and Bob and Mike Bryan have not only been joined as Davis Cup teammates, but have also become the best of buddies.

Can USA end an 11-year drought?

Having embraced the team concept, Roddick, Blake and the Bryans are in pursuit of a greater mission they would dearly love to accomplish – to make their friendship bring out the best in them, so they can bring the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas home to the USA for the first time since 1995.

That team spirit built on friendship faces a stiff test in the Americans’ away semifinal in Moscow’s Olympic Stadium, where they face a star-studded Russian squad. Yet a positive omen is that the last time a Yankee squad won the Davis Cup was, yes, in the Olympic Stadium in Moscow 11 years ago.

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