Hooray!

By now you probably know that the score is the United States 2, Russia 0 in the Davis Cup Final. Andy Roddick beat Dimitry Tursinov yesterday, and James Blake beat Mikhail Youzhny today.

We'll probably never hear the end of Russian captain Shamil Tarpischev's decision to hold Nikolay Davydenko out of the singles. At Number 4 in the world, he ranks higher than Roddick (at No. 6).

Who knows? Hindsight is 20-20, and Tarpischev has lead the Russians to victory before. He seemed to think that Davydenko couldn't beat Roddick, despite having a good track record against him.

But again, who knows enough to second-guess him? Maybe these match-fixing allegations have gotten to Davydenko. (Or maybe they know he's done it and fear he would do it in Portland.)

I don't know. But Tarpishchev's remarks sounded a bit defeatist to me. It's almost like he's just trying to make sure they don't get skunked.

Which has me scratching my head. You have to consider us the favorite, but not by much, and anything can happen in Davis Cup play. So, go figure. All I know is that you're not going to win with an attitude like that.

Good luck to the Bryan brothers tomorrow. They've been looking forward to this for a long time.

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