As expected, Andy Roddick, James Blake and the Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, will represent the US against Russia in this month's Davis Cup semi-finals.
US Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe announced his team on Tuesday at the US Open, where Roddick already is in the quarter-finals and Blake was waiting to play his fourth-round match.
Russia will host the best-of-five semi-final on Sept. 22-24 on a clay court indoors. Marat Safin, Nikolay Davydenko and Mikhail Youzhny are expected to be on Russia's team.
"I did just luck out," McEnroe said on Tuesday. "They genuinely look forward to the Davis Cup weeks. I think it really helps our guys, not just in Davis Cup, but throughout the year. They really pull for each other and support each other."
The best-of-five semi-final is scheduled to be played indoors at Moscow's Olympic Stadium on clay, a surface that's given Roddick and Blake fits in the past.
"We hear it's going to be nice and slow, nice and heavy," said McEnroe, in a tongue-and-cheek moment. "That's the way it's been when they've had matches there in the past at the Olympic stadium."
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