Andy Roddick and James Blake were selected Wednesday for the U.S. Davis Cup team that will face Rafael Nadal and Spain on an indoor hardcourt in next month’s quarterfinal. Captain Patrick McEnroe will also go with the world’s top-ranked doubles team of brothers Bob and Mike Bryan for the matches in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The No. 1 player wasn’t even the most popular in his own group Wednesday, and that was OK with Tiger Woods. Roger Federer came out to watch him play Doral. “It’s pretty neat when you have probably the most dominant athlete on the planet out there in your gallery,” Woods said after his practice round for the CA Championship, where he is the two-time defending champion.

Amelie Mauresmo had an appendectomy and is expected to be sidelined a month. The fourth-ranked Frenchwoman underwent surgery in Paris. She had a stomach ache for several days before a sonogram indicated the need to remove her appendix, her Web site said. “The operation went well and all that’s left for me is to wait patiently,” Mauresmo said.

Connecticut’s biggest tennis star has committed to playing in the 2007 Pilot Pen. James Blake, who is ranked No. 8 in the world, becomes the first big name to announce he will play in the tournament, which runs Aug. 19-25 at the Connecticut Tennis Center. Blake, of Fairfield, won the tournament in 2005.

MIAMI (AP) -Tiger Woods and Roger Federer go about their business in different ways. Federer carries his own bag but has someone pick up his balls. Woods has someone carry his bag but picks up his own balls. Unlike Federer, Woods rarely comes up with an ace, has no backhand and tries to be sub-par. Federer’s driver only drops him off at tournaments; Woods’ driver helps him win tournaments.

Tiger Woods and Roger Federer go about their business in different ways. Federer carries his own bag but has someone pick up his balls. Woods has someone carry his bag but picks up his own balls. Unlike Federer, Woods rarely comes up with an ace, has no backhand and tries to be sub-par. Federer’s driver only drops him off at tournaments; Woods’ driver helps him win tournaments.

The French Open will award equal prize money to male and female players throughout the tournament, falling in line with the three other Grand Slam tournaments. The announcement Friday by the French Tennis Federation extends last year’s decision. The French Open paid the men’s and women’s singles champions the same for the first time, although the overall prize fund remained larger for men.

Venus Williams will play in next month’s Family Circle Cup, the tournament announced Monday. It’s only Williams third appearance at the clay court event. She won the tournament in 2004. Williams joins her sister Serena, as well as former Grand Slam winners Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin, Amelie Mauresmo and Martina Hingis in the event April 9-15.

California teenager Sam Querrey defeated Belgium’s Christophe Rochus 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the Pacific Life Open on Saturday. Querrey will play fourth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia in the next round. He’s hoping home-court advantage will help. “Hopefully, all my friends will be out there and maybe get into his head,” he said.

The waist-length pigtails are gone, replaced by a layer of dusty blonde hair so short it doesn’t need a brush. Those ’80s tennis skirts are history, too. In their place, a black nun’s habit belted with a band of white rope that her dogs like to chew. One constant: Sister Andrea Jaeger isn’t quite who everyone might think she is.

Add Elena Dementieva to the growing list of star players to pull out of the Pacific Life Open. A right rib injury forced the fifth-seeded Dementieva to withdraw Wednesday from the tournament that is already missing three of the world’s top five players. Dementieva has a stress fracture that could sideline her for six weeks.

The chairman of the ATP took responsibility for the confusion on a ruling that eventually led to James Blake being removed from last week’s round-robin tournament in Las Vegas. “Personally, I made a mistake,” chairman Etienne de Villiers said Monday at a news conference promoting the Queen’s Club grass court championships.

The Wimbledon warmup tournament at Queen’s Club will use Hawk-Eye technology this year to resolve any line call disputes. The grass-court championships will be the first ATP tournament in Britain to use the video technology, organizers said Monday. “I think it’s great for the fans,” said Andy Roddick, who will again compete in 2007 with Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray.

Top-seeded Justine Henin of Belgium won the Qatar Open with a 6-4, 6- 2 win Saturday over Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova. The second-ranked Henin won, who won the Dubai Open last week, broke a sequence of Russian domination in Qatar dating back to 2003 when Anastasia Myskina won the title. Myskina repeated her performance in 2004, while Maria Sharapova and Nadia Petrova took the title in 2005 and…

Top-seeded Justine Henin of Belgium won the Qatar Open with a 6-4, 6- 2 win Saturday over Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova. The second-ranked Henin won $222,000, her second big paycheck after winning the Dubai Open last week. Henin broke a sequence of Russian domination in Qatar dating back to 2003 when Anastasia Myskina won the title.