The 2006 Davis Cup Finals had the atmosphere and drama that one hopes for in a year-end championship.  In the end, the team that was supposed to win based on rankings, surface, home team advantage, etc. came through… but only by a few points.  It would have been a spectacular win if Argentina had come through on a fast indoor court in Moscow, but I still think they played extremely well – David Nalbandian won both of his singles matches and Jose Acasuso played valiantly in losing the tight deciding match in a fourth set tiebreaker against an admittedly nervous Marat Safin.  But the finish matched the script as it should have.  The Argentine leader, Nalbandian, won his two clutch matches.  Russian star, Marat Safin, rebounded from his Friday loss to Nalbandian and capped off his comeback year with a Russian Davis Cup Championship.  Safin bested his own nerves, previous losing record against Acasuso and the weight of expectations to win the final match.  Would that all championships have this kind of drama and spirit – the 100 screaming fans from Argentina sometimes sounded as loud as the 10,000 Russian supporters, but they were all courteous to the players despite their allegiances.  There clearly should be a place on the international tennis calendar for Davis Cup.  Let’s hope that the powerbrokers can sort out the scheduling issues.