Nikolay Davydenko, the world number 4 has been left out of Russia’s line-up for the Davis Cup final this week. Team captain Shamil Tarpishchev is starting the singles rubbers with Dimitry Tursunov and Mikhail Youzhny ranked 34th and 19th in the world respectively. He said “We have four equal players and the choice of Youzhny was made for tactical reasons.”

I suspect that the reason Davydenko was left out was because of his dismal 0-5 career record against Andy Roddick whom Tursunov opens up against on Friday. More on Davis Cup Final 2007. USA vs Russia.

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I thought I’d post this video of the prize-giving and interview of the final Federer vs Sampras exhibition in Macau. The “old guy” comes through 7-6(8), 6-4 and is understandably happy about it! Check it out!

So after the 3 match exhibition we are still no nearer to finally resolving the debate as to who is the greatest of all time.

Federer won the first two matches of this money spinning exhibition series but, perhaps surprisingly, Sampras came through the third and final encounter 7-6(8), 6-4.Federer said he thought Sampras could beat the top five players on a fast surface, in return Sampras predicted Federer could beat his record of most Grand Slam wins “if not next year, pretty soon.”

“He’s a great, great player. He’s got things in his game that I couldn’t do,” Sampras said. More on Federer vs Sampras

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Thanks for joining me on the 6-0tennis blog. Here I’ll be regularly posting information on how best to improve your game, from technique and tactics to fitness and the mental side. This blog is written in response to the growing number of people who have asked me to comment on their games and help them improve - many of whom asked if I would put up some tips on the internet for them to refer back to whenever they wanted.

Well, as this is my first post I guess I should give a little bit of background about who I am! More on Welcome, its about time!!!