DAVIS CUP Roddick, Fish ready to serve

The former South Florida teammates have singles assignments.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Living together for a year as teenagers, Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish focused on girls, movies and racing to school.
Davis Cup? Not so much.
"It's weird to think," Roddick said. "In high school, we used to do all types of stupid stuff together. Now we're like, 'We're playing 1-2 for the Davis Cup team.' "
U.S. captain Patrick McEnroe is counting on the former South Florida schoolmates to take care of singles duties in the quarterfinals this weekend against Sweden. The American team also includes brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, who will play Jonas Bjorkman and Thomas Johansson in doubles Saturday.
Bjorkman and Thomas Enqvist are playing singles for the Swedes.
Team drought
The U.S. team's nine-year title drought is its longest since the 1930s, and Roddick and Fish hope to revive their nation's Davis Cup fortunes. It's a little different from being teammates at Boca Prep, where Roddick and Fish played high school basketball as well as tennis.
Both agree Fish was the better basketball player.
"Andy sat on the bench a lot," Fish said. "And when he did get in, he missed layups."
Roddick was the better of the two at tennis, but both had modest career expectations.
"The thing we joked about was taking full scholarships to Montana State," Roddick said. "I don't remember us talking about something this big."
They lived together at Roddick's house in Boca Raton and raced each other to high school every morning, trying to find the fastest route while avoiding a speeding ticket. Roddick drove a Chevy Blazer, Fish a Mustang.
"The loser paid for lunch," Fish said. "But then we'd probably never pay."
The distance from their school to the hard courts where this weekend's matches are being held is 15 minutes -- maybe less with Roddick or Fish driving.
"Everything is going to hit close to home," Fish said.
Less heralded than Roddick, Fish is nonetheless emerging as perhaps the second-best American of their generation. While Roddick won the U.S. Open last year, Fish cracked the top 20 for the first time and has reached five tournament finals since March 2003.
The U.S.-Sweden winner advances to the semifinals in September. The Americans are seeking their 32nd Davis Cup title but first since 1995. Sweden has won seven titles, most recently in 1998.