As partner, Betway will enjoy prominent brand visibility at this weekend’s Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Final in Ghent between Great Britian and Belgium.
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The Scot has been the face of the operation this year, leading Britain to their first Davis Cup final since 1978, but it has not been without the help of a talented team.
“Britain are the favorites, in my opinion, because they have Andy in the team”, Federer said in a previous interview.
Tim Henman has defended Andy Murray’s contribution to British tennis ahead of the final, something the former British No 1 admits he did not think was possible.
“As a sportsman, I’m disappointed, but as an individual I took pride in the fact that my government made the right call”, India’s Vijay Amritraj said.
“It’s a personal decision people have to make but I have no second thoughts about what we’re doing and going on with the event with everything I’ve seen today”. Then you make a plan, and most of the things I started in 2010 at that glamorous Turkey tie in Eastbourne have actually stayed. We have no doubts that we will be safe here. We can not do anything about security. “So we try to focus on the job and we will be ready on Friday”.
“It doesn’t depend on us, we can’t do much apart from keep training, as long as the event goes ahead, and I hope it does, we’ll continue until the end”. I think it’s one of the main goals we have as a team.
‘I think it’s not for me to give people advice on security.
Asked where he would place winning the Davis Cup alongside his two slam titles and an Olympic gold medal, he said: “To win the biggest team competition in tennis, having beat the other three grand slam nations, I think it would be a huge victory for everyone in the team”.
How Andy quickly adjusts to the switch to indoor clay will be crucial for Britain, according to team captain Leon Smith. That’s what we’re going to do this weekend also.
“We’ve had experience playing in Naples and Umag, as well, which were good atmospheres”.
The British team, spearheaded by world No. 2 Andy Murray and seeking its first title since 1936, was due to take the Eurostar to Belgium on Sunday, but instead made the journey by private plane a day later, bypassing Brussels altogether by landing at a small airport near Ghent.
Lleyton Hewitt was playing in his final Davis Cup and with Sam Groth threw everything they had at the Murray Brothers, but the Murrays came from behind to win 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4.
He can point to the final being on clay rather than a hard court and also the not inconsiderable factor of 12,000 supporters cheering him on.
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“I’ve been saying anyway to a lot of people over the last few days, at the ties you think everything is fine, and the security, you [think you] don’t necessarily need it. But in situations like this, it’s great we have such capable people”. “But I only played on the court for a couple hours in freezing cold conditions”.
