IHT.com: Tennis: Future is now for U.S. in Davis Cup

Fifteen years later, Andy Roddick will be expected to do much more than sound a horn at a Davis Cup final in the United States.

Roddick was 9 years old when the Americans last staged the final in 1992 in Fort Worth, Texas. The opponent was Switzerland, and the Americans assembled one of the finest lineups in history with Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras and John McEnroe.

That group, with 33 Grand Slam singles titles between them, was so strong that neither Sampras nor McEnroe were picked to play singles, and it was all quite a deposit in the memory bank for the young Roddick, who attended with a group from his parents’ tennis club in Austin.

After suffering through the clang of the Swiss cow bells in the stands on the first day, Roddick and his oldest brother, Lawrence, returned on the second with air horns and put them to liberal use.

The American all-star team would end up winning 3-1 and unwittingly laying the foundation for future teams.

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