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24 September, 2007

Congrats to Andy and the rest of the USA Davis Cup for winning the semi-final against Sweden 4-1. Andy played the match that gave the USA the win. He won in straight sets again Jonas Bjorkman

I added some HQ pics of Andy from the Davis Cup match and from this years Wimbledon

018 x 2007 Davis Cup: Semi-Final - Against Sweden
014 x 2007 Wimbledon: 1st Round - Against Justin Gimbelstob
006 x 2007 Wimbledon: 2nd Round - Against Danai Undomchoke
007 x 2007 Wimbledon: 3rd Round - Against Fernando Verdasco
008 x 2007 Wimbledon: 4th Round - Against Paul-Henri Mathieu
009 x 2007 Wimbledon: Quarter Final - Against Richard Gasquet

I added a short interview that Andy did after the USA beat Sweden. You can download it here

Here is another interview:

Q. So Russia in the final, what do you say?
ANDY RODDICK: You know, it’s something that I know we’ve been — we as a team have been dreaming of for a while, having a home final. I think we’re all just really excited about the opportunity.

Q. The last time the U.S. had a home final, we understand that you were there. Can you tell us about some of your recollections of that. It apparently made quite an impression.
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, I think I was nine years old and I went with my tennis club to that tie in Dallas. It changed my life. I mean, it changed kind of the way I viewed tennis, especially the way I viewed Davis Cup. It was my first professional tennis match — no, that it is not true. I had seen Jimmy at the Open in ‘91. It was the first time I’d kind of seen Davis Cup.
It just kind of blew my mind, to see the team that we had there. I mean, it was Agassi, Courier, Sampras and McEnroe. To be able to see that in that type of setting as a little kid, it definitely makes a bit of an impression, to understate it.

Q. You also beat Russia in ‘95.
ANDY RODDICK: That was in Moscow. It’s tough for me to, you know, make that ‘95 tie relevant just because I was playing in 14-and-unders at the time, so I didn’t really have a lot to do with it. It was a little bit far to travel for a 13-year-old to Moscow.

Q. When you say it changed your life, you were already playing by then, right? Did it solidify what you thought you wanted to do and where you belonged?
ANDY RODDICK: No. I wasn’t one of these kids raised to be a tennis player at all. But just seeing something like that is pretty powerful. You know, being with the other fans in an arena like that, seeing your heroes play, hearing the anthem for the first time, it really was the first time I’d been at a sporting event which was just, you know, completely about patriotism and that whole thing.
I think I fell in love with it then.
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