Roddick anchors cup win
The United States turned to Andy Roddick to put away another Davis Cup, and he delivered—as usual.
Roddick swept past Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka in straight sets to give the U. S. an opening round victory Sunday in the best-of-five series, wiping out any final-day drama in Birmingham, Ala.
Roddick, ranked sixth in the world, is now 11-0 with a chance to close out a Davis Cup series. If he felt any pressure from teammate Mike Bryan’s guarantee of a Roddick win a day earlier, it didn’t show on the court.
“I was sitting there putting my shoes on and [Bryan] goes, ‘I guarantee a victory,’ ” Roddick said. “I kind of progressively got tighter and tighter as he was talking. But I guess it would have been easy to blame him if I had lost.
“I guess he ended up looking smart.” Then again, Bryan wasn’t really going out on a limb with Roddick playing with a 2-1 lead.
This win was emphatic: 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 —and 4-1 for the U. S. Next up for the U. S. is Croatia in the quarterfinals on July 10-12, just after Wimbledon.
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