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British tennis deserves Davis Cup relegation, says Murray | World Number three Andy Murray has said British tennis
deserves to be relegated in the Davis Cup. "At last we are where we deserve to be," The Telegraph quoted Murray as saying after he and coach Paul Annacone watch
the team slip out of the top group in the Europe/Africa zone. The 3-2 defeat by
Poland at Liverpool's Echo Arena on Sunday, was sealed when Dan Evans, the world
No 302, got blown off court by a player ranked 376 places below him on the computer.
At the heart of it all stood Murray, a lone beacon of excellence, looking quite
fed up. Despite playing for a third successive day with pain from a wrist injury
which will force him to visit a specialist in London on Monday, Murray played
superbly to beat talented teenager Jerzy Janowicz 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to level the tie
2-2 and give Britain the chance of salvaging its place in the first group of the
Europe/Africa Zone. But then he was forced to watch helplessly as the 19-year-old
Evans capitulated in less than two hours, getting his serve broken seven times
in a 6-2, 6-1, 7-5 defeat by Michal Przysiezny, who, on paper, he should have
beaten but who, in reality, made it resemble a contest between man and boy. He
was even prepared to suggest that demotion to the third tier of the Cup for the
first time in 13 years might, perversely, be the best thing to happen to the sport
in Britain. "I think now, at last, we are where we deserve to be. We clearly are
not good enough to be playing against these teams. With or without me, we are
struggling to win matches," Murray said. |
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