Thanks, Steven.

A very interesting insight from a US fan perspective and positive appreciation of the Davis Cup and the home crowd support.

What a lovely article!

Great read, Davis cup support has a lot of very edifying things about it. Indeed if one was trying to define the perfect transition of fan passion to player support this would not be far off. Jame's dad's understanding of the value of away support to that atmosphere is not to be understated. It is what gives British sport at its finest a truly electric atmosphere, any child at Villa park for the first time last Saturday probably spent the next two days trying to be Fabian Delph and will in the balance of probabilities wear claret and blue all their life.

That is why the next round needs a big venue. it needs to feel accessible and relevant to the British Sports fan and we need plenty of cheap seats for kids.

Ha, that guy was class. We were sat right near that guy, he was wearing a US soccer top. Never got the chance to speak to him but looked a right laugh to be fair, and he writes a good blog!

 If as I hope we progress to the SF v Australia would that also be at home. ? 

-- Edited by A1 tennis academy on Saturday 14th of March 2015 10:53:52 AM

A QF vs Australia would indeed also be at home. If per chance we met Kazakhstan that would be by lot.

But we're going for the USA, France, Australia, Argentina home quadruple :)

As Jaffa wrote the young lad writing the blog was sitting quite close to us. Have to confess didn't realise he was there until he became quite vocal in his support for Isner halfway through that match. Given the subdued support given to the US team it was quite refreshing to hear some real partisan support even if he was sitting by himself and had noone to help him.

Can understand where he's coming from about the level of crowd support at a DC tie. It knocked me back a bit given my comparable experiences at Fed Cup when even in Sweden there was proably only 1000 in the whole venue and the 10 strong Barmy Army made probably 90% of the total crowd noise. The likes of the AM forum guys were making plenty of noise and it felt that at least 75% of the 7500 strong crowd were making a strong contribution to the level of noise.

I for one would say if you're making up a bucket list, attending a DC tie of this magnitude should be on it for any big tennis fan. An unforgettable experience.

A few other observations after watching the Beeb coverage finally.

1. I'm amazed Judy never got shown during Friday's coverage.
2. The 4 guys who were wearing union jack suits all got shown on TV, but the guy who in addition to his union jack trousers and wearing a union jack waistcoat for the 1st time didn't ;)

Also a note for Jaffa. Hadn't realised that the guy who was wearing the strange headgear and dancing in the aisle during the changeovers and who was talking alot to Paul Hutchins was actually the founder and chief executive of Ted Baker ( guy called Kelvin ) !

-- Edited by philwrig on Monday 16th of March 2015 05:02:58 PM