Witten chosen to be on Davis Cup team:: Naples Daily News

Witten chosen to be on Davis Cup team::Naples Daily News ~~~

When Pat McEnroe told me last week that Jesse Witten was one of the practice partners for the Davis Cup tie in La Jolla, I was a little bit surprised.

The MO for practice partners has always been younger--Witten's 23, the same age as Andy Roddick--and it has rarely included players who've emerged from the college scene. The other practice partner, Phillip Simmonds, is a more traditional choice--19, and considered one of the most talented of those 20 and under. Both Witten and Simmonds have won Futures events in Florida recently, and the third 2006 U.S. Futures winner, Scoville Jenkins, was a practice partner back in September of 2004.