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Oudin ready for Fed Cup pressure

By Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

Friday, November 6, 2009

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy -- If there's a cloud hanging over the Fed Cup final this week in Reggio Calabria, Italy, it probably centers around whether U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez should forget about trying to entice Serena and Venus Williams to the competition in the future. Fernandez insists it wouldn't be prudent to permanently jettison the sisters from consideration. Nevertheless, even while she's taking the high road publicly, it's easy to sense Fernandez understands her pleas to p ...

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