Novak Djokovic has been showing off his soccer skills. Roger Federer has been seen spiking a few volleyballs. Andy Murray is set to hit and giggle with Andy Roddick In Miami. Caroline Wozniacki has become a temporary golf groupie/reporter. For Rafael Nadal, though, the off-season has meant getting back to

Australian national men’s coach and former doubles standout Todd Woodbridge tells AAP that Australia's Davis Cup team must stop being overly dependent on 31-year-old Lleyton Hewitt, who is now finding it difficult to play three matches during a tie because of injuries. Hewitt owns the Australian Davis Cup record for

David Nalbandian tells Clarin that Argentina still has a good enough team to be able to win its first Davis Cup. This year, Argentina lost at home to the Czech Republic in the semifinals. The stalwart Nalbandian was unable to compete due to injury, and top player Juan Martin del

LIGHTS, CAMERA, FRICTION! Chris Evert, Lindsay Davenport, and Justin Gimelstob will appear on a January 2013 episode of the broadcast TV show CSI, in which the usual cast of investigators will pursue the fictional case of a dead professional tennis player, a female. Evert tweeted her enthusiasm about the gig,

There’s a dry quality to Thanksgiving, which may or may not start with the turkey you eat for dinner. While the first-day-of-Christmas shopping frenzy known as Black Friday has begun—outrageously—to creep over into Thursday night at the big chain stores, most other shops and restaurants remain shuttered and silent for

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It's a short holiday week stateside, with Thanksgiving upon us, and so the Spin's Friday Fourhand post appears today. Here's the latest as the ATP and WTA seasons have both wound down now. 1] CZECH BAIT Steve Tignor says what most everyone is thinking: "Tomas Berdych kinda had a point

Whatever you might want to say about the tennis season, you can’t say it doesn’t go out with a bang—or a tear, or a song, or a dance, or a shaved head, or a torn shirt with something that looks like a lion on it. The Davis Cup final delivered,

PRAGUE -- It's a job for two when the Czechs win Davis Cup finals. Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek gave the Czech Republic the title for the first time as an independent nation by beating Spain 3-2 in the final on Sunday. Each spent about 10 grueling hours on court,

We all knew from the start that Tomas Berdych was primed to be the hero of this Davis Cup final. Eleven-time major champion Rafael Nadal, who bested Berdych in the 2010 Wimbledon final, decided to stay home to rest his knees a while longer. And the tie was being played

Laura Robson says that she and fellow young Brit Heather Watson remain friends, and that it’s possible for two competitors from the same nation to be close. “So far it’s been very easy,” she told the Guardian. “I don’t know if it’ll get harder as we get older, and both

PRAGUE -- The Czech Republic won the doubles Saturday to take a 2-1 lead over defending champion Spain in the Davis Cup final, moving one victory away from its first title as an independent nation. Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek rallied to beat Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 3-6, 7-5,

PRAGUE -- Tomas Berdych beat Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 to give the Czech Republic a 1-1 tie with Spain after the opening singles matches Friday in the Davis Cup final. Earlier, Spain's David Ferrer topped Radek Stepanek 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. The fifth-ranked Ferrer has won a

Yesterday I described the Czech Republic as “the little nation that could” because of the steady stream of blue-chip players it has produced throughout tennis history. The Czech men hope to join the victorious Czech Fed Cup team as champions this weekend when they host Spain in Prague. The visiting

PRAGUE -- The last time the Czechs played Spain in the Davis Cup final, they were swept 5-0 on clay in Barcelona. Three years later, the Czech Republic will play at home on a fast indoor hard court. Plus, Spain will play without injured star Rafael Nadal. The Czechs hope

This weekend, the Czech Republic is hoping to become the first team to win both the Fed Cup and Davis Cup competitions in the same year since the United States did it in 1990. The population of the U.S. in 1990 was 248,709,873. The population of Czechoslovakia at the time

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PRAGUE (AP) -- With Rafael Nadal sidelined with an injury, the Czech Republic team hopes to complete a rare double this weekend when it takes on defending champion Spain in the 100th Davis Cup final. Two weeks after the Czech women secured the Fed Cup title at Prague's O2 Arena,

Swiss neutrality: That wasn’t the phrase that came to mind during Roger Federer’s semifinal win over Andy Murray in London yesterday. For much of the match, it looked and sounded as if Zurich and Geneva had banded together to invade England. One reporter in the building estimated that support was

Tennis fans around the U.S., if they’re anything like me, got a rude awakening when they turned on their TVs this morning. There was, for the first time in weeks, no tennis on. Or at least there was no live tennis, no Roger Federer vs. David Ferrer in an important