Britain beat Belgium in the final over the weekend to win the worldwide team competition for the first time in 79 years. 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.
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“Then we will head towards that March period”.
Britain’s Davis Cup hero Andy Murray will play his final competitive matches of the year when he competes on December 5 for Tie-Break Tens – an exciting new format of tennis. If you’re giving that amount of money each year, and you’ve got nothing to say about how it is spent, that’s mind-boggling.
Murray said he had no regrets over having made playing in the Davis Cup very much his priority in the latter half of the season, even though it meant he failed to add to his haul of Grand Slam titles, which remains stuck at two since his 2013 Wimbledon triumph.
After celebrating Britain’s first Davis Cup win since 1936, Murray called on the authorities to ensure the success does not go to waste.
“We played four ties this year and every one of them was a sell-out, and the atmospheres were really good”, Murray told reporters the day after victory in Ghent.
“We value the opinions of all of our players on how we grow the game in Britain and our door is always open to Andy, Dan (Evans), Dom (Inglot), James (Ward), Jamie (Murray) and Kyle (Edmund) to hear their views and work collaboratively with them and all of our partners”. Aljaz Bedene is 45th in the world after world number two Murray, but he became British via Slovenia, a country he turned out for in the Davis Cup. “It’s probably the most emotional I’ve been at the end of a match”, Murray said.
“I’ve been close (in Australia) a number of years”. They believe a lot more could be done and should be done to capitalise on all of this success in British tennis over the last five or six years.
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That scenario is unlikely to happen, however, because the packed ATP Tour and the Davis Cup schedule are often incompatible for the leading players and next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will clutter their plans still further.
