Obviously listen to the right people, if you’re doing that’.
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“Great Britain are the favourites, in my opinion, because they have Andy in the team”.
“I think it was a good statement to make”, Jamie Murray said. Maybe Kim and Justine will come to watch us play: I think there will be a lot of emotion, a insane crowd.
“As you would expect, a number of specific, additional security measures have been put in place for this weekend’s tie”, it continued.
But obviously it’s a different situation in Brussels from here.
The British team delayed travelling until Monday and Henman, who had been planning to take his family, will now be staying at home.
“I think clay is the right surface (choice)”.
He added: “Here in Ghent, everything seems fine”. With the train and the going over there, I just thought, ‘Is it really worth the hassle for them?’ “I hope as many fans can travel over as possible to give us the best support”. “Obviously I understand if people make another decision because of what’s been happening in Brussels”. However, nobody has been more shaken than Belgian No 2 Steve Darcis, who was working with the 48-year-old when the tumour was discovered last month.
Nobody denies that those days have passed – as witnessed by the fact that Andy Murray is the only member of the “Big Four” to appear in 2015’s knockout stage.
And despite 13,000 home fans cheering on Belgium from the Flanders Expo, Federer believes Murray will have too much for the hosts. It has been very cold in there yesterday and also this morning.
“From what we know now it will go ahead – the threat level in Ghent is the same as in London”.
“I didn’t necessarily think of it like that”, he said, “that we were here to set an example”. “I think for Belgium it’s important”.
Gijs Kooken, chief executive of the Flemish Tennis Federation (FTF), which is staging the event, told BBC Sport he was in regular contact with the Belgian government and had “not yet had a signal that it’s not safe to organise the event”. Which is what happened: I played [Adrien] Bossel [the world No334] in the fifth rubber. It inspires me even more to keep on going and hopefully playing on this level in the future. “He played an unbelievable match there”, he said.
If things do go ahead as planned, with play beginning at on Friday at 12.30pm GMT, sniffer dogs and explosive experts will constantly patrol the venue.
He has travelled with two second-string singles players and, as yet, has not decided who to play.
After the doubles players trained, Murray practised with Edmund for over two hours, with James Ward, the other potential singles player, taking a rest day. Everyone had nearly written us off because their doubles team was a pretty special team at the time. That’s why I didn’t speak to the guys directly about it just yet.
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“I was going to take the three girls, I was going to go with my family”.
