TENNIS in DEPTH.

In a repeat of last year’s Final, Team USA will face Italy, the defending champions, but this time around the American squad will play host for the end of year finale in November.

The Italian team, barring injuries, will be the same one that won in 2009, and the same one that has reached the 2010 final. It would be great to think that the USA team would also consisit of those players who played their hearts out to reach the 2010 final. What a wonderful sportsman-like gesture it would be for Serena and Venus to contact the USTA and advise them that they are not available to play in Novemebr, and that Mary Joe Fernandez should go with the team that reached the final. But then I’m naive enough to believe in miracles!

How can the selection comittee ignore the efforts of Mattek-Sands, Oudin or Huber, and leave any one of  them off the team in November?

It had always been Liezel Huber’s dream scenario to play a live doubles rubber during Fed Cup action.

The No. 1 doubles player in the world was granted her wish at the Fed Cup semifinal against Russia on Sunday, teaming with Bethanie Mattek-Sands to bring home the 3-2 victory and a second straight Fed Cup Final berth.

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