There remained plenty of ambiguity in his answer, though, with the 39-year-old saying: “There’s been so much gone into this year but also the years gone by that I’ve not thought anything about it”.
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Downey, meanwhile, is also hopeful Britain will have a new player to call on next year, with Aljaz Bedene’s appeal against ineligibility due to be heard in by the International Tennis Federation board in March.
But Andy Murray, the current world number two, has expressed doubts about whether the victory will improve the fortunes of British tennis. Now, I don’t know what the motivation was for this poor soul, but it did serve to remind me that to be a truly caring society we really must adopt a system that allows for assisted suicide.
“There was not one person using any of the indoor courts and not one person in the gym… the place cost like 40 million (HK$467.6 million) and there are no people”.
“I have played more matches this year than in any other other year and my body has responded really well, so I will take the appropriate rest now and then start training for Australia”, he said. They need to act on it now. “It was the decision of Michael and Bob to move that on and now we’ve got another performance director who will have to unfold another strategy”, said Smith.
Great Britain should enjoy their Davis Cup success because it could be a while before such a feat is emulated.
Murray became only the third player after John McEnroe in 1982 and Mats Wilander in 1983 to achieve an 8-0 singles record in one calendar year since the introduction of the World Group in 1981. I am hearing this from people in the tennis industry, so this is from players and coaches.
“It really is an important time to get strategies rolled out as quickly as possible, not only to get people on the court but to keep them on the court”. Bringing them on from junior to senior was our problem but now we don’t even have the juniors. “Let’s hope it can have a positive influence”. Britain last played in the final in 1978.
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“For me, playing in an atmosphere like that, it was so loud, there was a lot of booing and whistling, mentally it is good to go through matches like that and I hope I can use it to my advantage in the future”. We may never get a better opportunity to do that than now.
