A report in Le Nouvel Observateur suggested the team had been split over the decision to go on strike and not train just two days before the decisive match against South Africa, and that players had almost come to blows.
With veterans like Venus Williams and Serena Williams unavailable, she stepped in and won the decisive match against Argentina.
He is now ranked 153rd but has played well in his few appearances this year and won the decisive match against Sweden in the opening round.
The scores remained close throughout, but the decisive match was between Breki Jardverk and Enorma in the second round of the final day.
If Roddick (6-0 in Davis Cup play) falters, McEnroe expects Sampras to be ready to face Tommy Robredo in the decisive match.
In the decisive match of last year's Davis Cup final in Nice, France, Pioline was unable to overcome a younger, ostensibly hungrier Mark Philippoussis of Australia.
How many people outside of Russia and Argentina recall that Marat Safin won the decisive match in last year's Davis Cup final between Russia and Argentina in Moscow?
There is no point suggesting what he could have done because helping England twice to win the Ashes – he returned for the decisive match at The Oval in 2009, his final Test – was reward aplenty.
The only Cup match he lost in 2005 was against Dominik Hrbaty of Slovakia in the final in Bratislava, but Ancic, despite some edgy moments, held it together in the decisive match to beat the obscure Michal Martinek.
The old man sits in a Montevideo bar, looking at the light pouring in from the window, thinking about the day he scored the winning goal in the decisive match of the first postwar World Cup.
