Picture This: Best Davis Cup photos

Davis Cup: Where grown men fly, the wee loom large and the No. 2s become the No. 1s. Basically, it's where nothing makes sense. And that's precisely where the
Picture This: Best Davis Cup photos
Picture This: Best Davis Cup photos /

Davis Cup: Where grown men fly, the wee loom large and the No. 2s become the No. 1s. Basically, it's where nothing makes sense. And that's precisely where the fun begins.

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Juan Carlos Ferrero -- Whee! The Spaniard enjoyed his 32nd birthday during Davis Cup weekend.

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(Peter Klaunzer/AP)

Roger Federer and John Isner -- Which one is David and which is Goliath? Federer and Isner, further complicating the "Does size matter?" debate.

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Gael Monfils -- The Frenchman landed in Vancouver complaining about his knees. Captain Guy Forget held him out of the opening singles matches against Canada. So, after France clinched the tie in the fourth rubber, obviously it made sense for Monfils to play a dead rubber. Obviously.

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Dan Evans -- The 21-year-old Evans, undersized at 5-foot-9 and ranked No. 273, won both his singles matches, sealing Great Britain's upset of Slovakia with a five-set victory in the decisive fifth rubber. How do you like them apples?

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(Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Janko Tipsarevic -- No Nole? Ja, Janko.

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(Michael Probst/AP)

David Nalbandian -- An emotional Nalby? It must be Davis Cup.

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(Darryl Dyck/AP)

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -- A better look than this?

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Russian captain Shamil Tarpischev and Alex Bogomolov Jr. -- So ... that didn't exactly go according to plan.

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Cruz and Mia Hewitt -- SECURITY!!!

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(Peter Schneider/AP)

Mardy Fish and John Isner -- The Americans size up their competition. "I got the one on the left, you take the one on the right."


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COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.