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Posted on Thu, Sep. 04, 2008 10:15 PM
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U.S. Open notes: U.S. Davis Cup team set
•DAVIS CUP TEAM SET: Andy Roddick, James Blake and the doubles pair of twins Bob and Mike Bryan will form the U.S. team for a record-extending 11th consecutive Davis Cup match.
No other foursome has been chosen more than three times in a row to represent the country.
“I feel like this is déjà vu,” captain Patrick McEnroe said Thursday at the U.S. Open, where he’s serving as Roddick’s personal coach. “No surprise — same four guys.”
They are the players who McEnroe led to the last Davis Cup championship.
•BLACK, PAES TAKE TITLE: Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Leander Paes of India won their first U.S. Open mixed doubles title by beating Liezel Huber of the United States and Jamie Murray of Britain 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in the final.
Paes has won four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, and Black has won three — but this was the first for each at Flushing Meadows and the first for them as a team.
•LATE NIGHT WITH NADAL: It sure took a while, but Nadal is an Open semifinalist.
The No. 1-ranked Nadal beat unseeded American Mardy Fish 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, getting past the quarterfinals for the first time in six trips to Flushing Meadows with a victory that ended with the scoreboard showing 2:10 a.m. Thursday, making it the third-latest finish in tournament history.
They approached the latest finish in the tournament’s history — Mats Wilander defeated Mikael Pernfors at 2:26 a.m. in 1993.
| The Associated Press
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