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Good evening. It is the final day of the Davis Cup tie between Great | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
Britain and the United States. After two days of play, Great Britain is | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
just one win away from a famous victory, but whatever the outcome | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
today, history will be made. The US have only ever come from to rob a | :00:49. | :01:00. | |
rubbers to win. It is 79 years since Britain have beaten the US in this | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
competition, and a cents they have won on US soil. 15 years since Jim | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
career beat Greg Rusedski. But records are there to be broken. | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
The chance for a famous win in America's backyard to reach the | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
quarterfinals of the Davis Cup. James Ward is producing an fantastic | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
performance for his country here. The Americans look shell-shocked, | :01:36. | :01:49. | |
and Britain are one match away from winning against the United States. | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
Drama in San Diego so far, and more to come this evening. Britain on the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
verge of victory, and the Wimbledon could seal the win, because Andy | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Murray is first on court today up against Sam Querrey, and the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
American has only eaten Britain's number one once in six meetings -- | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
only beaten him once. James Ward pulled off a heroic win | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
on Friday to put Great Britain two up. Andy Murray's match started just | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
and are go. Murray's tap ticks were to move the big man all around the | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
court and wait for his chance, which he took there. He went on to win | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
that game for 4-3. But the match was levelled once more, and the set was | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
decided by a tie-break. It was tennis of the highest quality, but | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
query was taking his risks. He missed one of the easiest shots in | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
the opening set gift Murray the opener. This was it, an absolute | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
sitter just on top of the net. But Murray was always so strong in the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
battle, determined to win this for Great Britain. He took the opening | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
set 7-6, and that means they are just two sets away from a | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
quarterfinal place, up against Italy. We will join it live, on | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
serve in the second. Querrey coming out. Our commentators watching this | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
match are Ross Hutchins, Jonathan Lloyd and Jonathan over end. | :03:46. | :04:23. | |
A forehand attack from Querrey into Murray's backhand corner. | :04:24. | :05:09. | |
A perfect demonstration of their of Sam Querrey's strength. One of the | :05:10. | :05:39. | |
biggest serves in the game, certainly one of the biggest | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
forehands. It is movement around the court that is his weakness, and it | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
is what Murray is trying to exploit here. We have seen big serves in the | :05:49. | :05:59. | |
past doing well. Querrey has won tournament on clay, these big guys | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
can be successful on clay. Look at John Isner last year, | :06:02. | :06:19. | |
beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. John Isner missing from the team, | :06:20. | :06:48. | |
making it so different from an American point of view, losing a top | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
ten player. He is out with an ankle injury. | :06:54. | :07:26. | |
That is when it becomes disheartening for Sam Querrey here. | :07:27. | :07:40. | |
He thinks he does everything right, a very good backhand volley, and he | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
expects to have at least another chance in that rally, but Andy | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Murray has such good feel and court awareness. | :07:54. | :08:05. | |
This is the all-important game number seven. It is critical in | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
terms of how a set can pan out. 77 mph second serve from Murray, | :08:14. | :08:55. | |
short as well. Two big forehands, gets to break point. | :08:56. | :09:19. | |
That is his bread-and-butter serve. It went out wide. He goes there | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
seven times out of ten on the big points. People used to cover it | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
before he improved that sliced serve. It gives him more space out | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
wide. That was the point of the match! And | :09:36. | :10:14. | |
Querrey did really well to stay competitive in that rally after | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
taking a slip and slide, he adjusted rapidly to give himself a chance | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
just there. And what a volley that is. What a lob that was. To get over | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
someone as tall as Sam Querrey from that position. | :10:33. | :10:50. | |
That is some recovery in the game from Murray. Break point down. Three | :10:51. | :11:04. | |
points of absolute class. Trusty movement, and it is valuable to him | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
to have success. A good challenge here from Murray, because Querrey is | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
throwing it at him, and he is having to play some very good tennis to | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
keep himself ahead in this game. This is a very good performance from | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Querrey after a devastating loss on Friday, this is excellent tennis he | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
is playing. He has gone up a level here, and he has had to to get even | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
close to Andy Murray. It is all mental. It is. How can you change | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
that much in two days? All the pressure that was on, now it has | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
been released, and this game, so much of it is in the head, and that | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
separates the great players. Captain Jim Courier here will have played | :11:55. | :12:13. | |
his part in picking Querrey up. A team meeting, no doubt, last night, | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
and a pre-match chat today. He has spent plenty of time telling him how | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
good he is, and that he can beat anybody when he is firing well. | :12:24. | :12:40. | |
If Querrey can somehow win this match, it will go down to a fifth | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
and final rubber. On the evidence of Friday, you would have to put James | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Ward down as the slight favourite over Donald Young. | :12:56. | :13:12. | |
There are not many better in the game, a big forehand on all three. | :13:13. | :14:37. | |
Good forehand drive from Querrey, takes them to four all. Querrey is | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
having chance on the Murray serve. He doesn't take take the chances, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
putting the pressure right back on the British player. That is all he | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
can do, keep building momentum and try and get more opportunities. | :14:55. | :15:47. | |
I'm amazed that Querrey doesn't wear a sweat band. He's like Roddick, | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
never wears a sweat band on his arm. Sweat and it musn't go into the | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
hand. Spoken like a true expert there on | :16:01. | :16:17. | |
sweating issues, Ross. I would have gone by six by this time. You hold | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
the world record, don't you? Game point. | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
Murray 5-4 up, still going for serve. He did serve for the first | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
set, but was broken back. On the way to a try break 4-2 down at that | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
breaker at the changeover. Came out 7-5 ahead. You love that, a player | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
when you can hold a service game that easily, when it gets towards | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
the end of a set. Love serve, you can conserve your energy and not | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
battle to hold on. That was a solid service game there for Murray. He | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
will be telling them the value of the first point in this game to | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
mount the pressure, not give away a cheap point. Play consistently, | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
force Querrey to hit the winner. Super Bowl Sunday. It will be quite | :17:20. | :17:33. | |
something for them here if they could turn this tie around. They | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
only once before have recovered from 2-0 down in a tie to win 3-2 in the | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Davis Cup, way back in the 30s. UMPIRE: Out! That first point that | :17:44. | :18:13. | |
Ross Hutchins was talking about. Murray is so frustrated there | :18:14. | :18:42. | |
because the hard thing to get right is the length of the lob. He's got | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
that perfect. It's the direction that's let him down. | :18:47. | :19:32. | |
Gave that one away. You very rarely see Murray doing that. Sloppy. | :19:33. | :20:07. | |
It sounded like the chef had thrown his sauce pans out of the kitchen. | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
5-5. It switches back to Murray. Expecting and waiting for Andy | :20:17. | :22:29. | |
almost to just take it up a notch, as we talked about. Whether it | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
happens in the tie-break or this game. Very interesting to see. We | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
know he has that extra gear. Querrey has served well. Any opportunity you | :22:38. | :22:50. | |
just feel shots that will surprise us, not surprise, but make a | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
difference. He played an average game. A couple of strange slot | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
selections. I doubt we will see that this game. Querrey could serve aces. | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
If he doesn't, this game Murray will put pressure on. He doesn't want to | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
go into a tie-breaker. It's dangerous. We saw it in the first | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
one that he snuck out of. Great match, I think, fabulous tennis. | :23:16. | :23:39. | |
The travelling support. Sam Querrey, serving to stay in the set. | :23:40. | :24:00. | |
Leon Smith will be looking for his number one player to impose himself. | :24:01. | :24:58. | |
He knows it too. He really knows it. Top players they are so greedy with | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
every point. It kills them to play a point like that. | :25:06. | :25:43. | |
One more second, please. Thank you. All right. | :25:44. | :26:05. | |
Incredible backhand. On the baseline. He's messed up the high | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
volley. And we're heading for a second successive tie-break. | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
You can have dips in matches obviously. It's strange for someone, | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
of Andy's experience, you don't have that towards the end of a set. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
That's unusual. He has had a couple of poor service games on the Querrey | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
serve where he doesn't anything. He has to if custody quickly now if | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
he's going to win this tie-breaker. He doesn't want to let the American | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
back into this match, that's for sure. | :26:46. | :27:07. | |
Expect the locals here to really provide that X factor. | :27:08. | :27:22. | |
Excellent point. We haven't seen that backhand down-the-line from | :27:23. | :27:50. | |
Murray too often this match. That just opened the court beautifully | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
for the forehand line. Such a good shot. I wish he would use it more. | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
It's so good. Yep. Not too much emotion from captain | :27:59. | :28:35. | |
Jim Querrey across the weekend. He can sneak this set, we might just | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
see it. Orchestrating to his player to stay | :28:41. | :29:07. | |
on him. Stay attacking. Keep using this aggressive play. | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
Worked well for him that tactic. Murray assisting by dropping a few | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
second serves in short. Oh, just wide! Murray's lacking a | :29:23. | :29:36. | |
little bit of confidence with the volley at the moment, isn't he? He | :29:37. | :29:45. | |
flicked it across court. A heck of an effort there. Just almost got it | :29:46. | :29:55. | |
right. He's not far away. Murray wins his first point on serve, in | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
this tie-break. 4-2, at the change of ends. Exactly as it was in the | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
first set tie-break. Murray won five of the next six | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
points. Crucial words now from the captain. | :30:14. | :30:31. | |
You would pretty much going as far as saying that Querrey has to win | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
this tie-break? Absolutely. Yeah. Barring injury, it's practically | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
impossible to see Murray throwing away a 2-0 lead. 4-2. | :30:47. | :31:16. | |
Long. Querrey, brave again. Once again, came forward, venturing to | :31:17. | :31:25. | |
the net. Over 30 times this match. More than he makes in a tournament | :31:26. | :31:27. | |
sometimes. Querrey is playing a superb | :31:28. | :32:24. | |
tie-break, and he has got four setpoints! He can see the slice, and | :32:25. | :32:38. | |
just nails it. Murray just couldn't deal with it. | :32:39. | :33:28. | |
This tie is not over yet. Sam Querrey starts the American fight | :33:29. | :33:44. | |
back. He has played well all Mac, Sam Querrey. It is very rare to see | :33:45. | :33:54. | |
him that emotional. He is right up for this. | :33:55. | :34:05. | |
This is for a place in the quarterfinals of the world group of | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
the Davis Cup. A stage that Britain hasn't reached since 1986, and it | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
would be some feet if they could get there. These are the results we have | :34:18. | :34:25. | |
had in round one. Japan getting the job done against Canada. Germany had | :34:26. | :34:34. | |
an unassailable lead against Spain. Down the bottom there, Switzerland, | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
3-2 against Serbia. That was over after the doubles as well. And | :34:41. | :34:47. | |
Italy's 3-1 victory over Argentina means that Italy will host the | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
winners of this match in the last eight. | :34:52. | :35:02. | |
It is nice to be even thinking about that stage. Britain's fantastic so | :35:03. | :35:16. | |
not much is against the likes of Tunisia and Turkey and Hungary. Now | :35:17. | :35:26. | |
we are against the big time again. This crowd in San Diego have a role | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
to play now to make Querrey truly believe that he could get something | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
from this. I don't know what you thought, Ross, but to me, Andy | :35:39. | :35:45. | |
looked a little bit flat almost towards the end of that second. | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
There were a couple of service games on the Querrey serve where Murray | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
would normally make you play every ball, and he was making | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
uncharacteristic errors. You can have dips over five sets. That is | :36:03. | :36:12. | |
when the top players bear down and use that presents they have to put | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
their opponent off, and it didn't seem to go that way. It was a | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
strange end to the set. Absolutely. There is an aura among Murray and | :36:25. | :36:27. | |
these top players, and I think Murray would know that. He doesn't | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
expect Querrey to back down, but errors usually come from opponents. | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
That we have to give a lot of credit to this man. He didn't back down, he | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
didn't make errors, and he kept coming forward. Did Murray get | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
lulled into expecting Querrey to miss? He has set the tone. Rallying | :36:50. | :37:02. | |
with a lot of long rallies, Querrey, if he is fit and healthy, he is | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
putting balls away in a different way to Friday. | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
He is a new man, that's for sure, beaten by James Ward in five. And | :37:14. | :37:25. | |
now 1-1 with the Wimbledon to. -- champion. | :37:26. | :39:00. | |
Well, he has made Querrey move on to that backhand side twice there. Two | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
errors coming off the backhand wing. That is the third time in this match | :39:12. | :39:40. | |
that Querrey has taken a little slip, and it really set him back. He | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
probably only lost a fraction of a second, but that's more than enough | :39:46. | :39:47. | |
to lose your way in the point. He would have liked to be back | :39:48. | :40:32. | |
another stride there. I think he was a little conscious of hitting the | :40:33. | :40:33. | |
line judge. Murray apologises, but he has got | :40:34. | :40:49. | |
another break point chance. That is a different Murray. Hugely | :40:50. | :41:33. | |
frustrated with himself for losing that second set, and look how he | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
reacts, bossing his opponent around the court, and immediately getting | :41:39. | :41:40. | |
the break. Look at the net points won from Sam | :41:41. | :41:59. | |
Querrey. He has never coming that much, probably in the whole | :42:00. | :42:00. | |
tournament. And it is a success. That was about an inch off the | :42:01. | :43:19. | |
floor. A great return, too. He serves the majority of server 60 | :43:20. | :43:52. | |
or 70% speed, he has a good rhythm of holding serve will . | :43:53. | :44:05. | |
Called good by the line judge, but fault by the umpire, overruling. But | :44:06. | :44:17. | |
he says, it is on the line, but beyond the service line. | :44:18. | :45:00. | |
A brilliant lob from Andy Murray. He wasn't able to backtrack in time. | :45:01. | :45:36. | |
A new phase of the match now, because Murray knows if he can pull | :45:37. | :45:43. | |
clear in this third set, not only will it dampen the spirits of Sam | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
Querrey, it will silence this home crowd. | :45:48. | :46:04. | |
That explains why he strained to get to that defensive backhand. | :46:05. | :46:32. | |
Oh, Andy Murray that's genius! That is just soul destroying. You hit a | :46:33. | :46:45. | |
shot like this. He took this one early. You can't hit it any wet | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
better. Look how far out of the kour court you are was. To direct that | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
from that much pace, from that far back. Unbelievable! It's gone in. | :46:55. | :47:01. | |
Two breaks for Murray in this third set. This is the gear we've talked | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
about. Classy, professional. So impressive from Murray. Waiting for | :47:10. | :47:17. | |
errors and building momentum. Quite brilliant. He's played a few of | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
those brilliant running back hands up the line in his career, hasn't | :47:25. | :47:31. | |
he? Remember one at Wimbledon, key match against Gasquet. Gasquet. The | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
light was dimming, early evening. He ended up on the crowd. Standing on | :47:39. | :47:47. | |
those boards, yep. Get in touch, tweet us at BBC Sport. You can go to | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
sport online as well. We have every base covered tonight. If you're on | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
the move, this match is now live on Radio 5 Live as well. Steve asks, | :47:59. | :48:08. | |
"why is Jim Querrey wearing a suit?" We have been trying to work that out | :48:09. | :48:15. | |
all weekend. "It looks like he's come straight from work." True, I | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
suppose he is at work. Others, "watching Andy Murray playing tennis | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
causes me so much stress." Not as stressful as it once was. I know | :48:28. | :48:29. | |
what you mean, in matches like this. Targeted the weakness. Gone into | :48:30. | :49:05. | |
basic tennis mode. Doing it at such a high level. | :49:06. | :49:23. | |
Sometimes he looks so good on clay. His weakest service. Do you think | :49:24. | :49:33. | |
deep down he believes he can win the French Open? I know with Rafael | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
Nadal. It's not whether we believe it, it's whether he believes it. | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
It's a tough question to know what's in his mind. While Rafael Nadal is | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
on tour, I don't think anyone believes that a healthy Rafael | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
Nadal. You can get past a Rafael Nadal over five sets. Something has | :49:54. | :49:56. | |
to happen in the match for you to beat him. You have to hit every ball | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
as hard as you can. Rafael Nadal has to be off or injured, like he was in | :50:02. | :50:03. | |
the final of Australia. Yeah. Conversation with the umpire. It was | :50:04. | :50:14. | |
definitely in. First serve again. Didn't hit it as clean as he wished. | :50:15. | :51:02. | |
He meant it! Benefit of the doubt. This is just so professional, the | :51:03. | :51:26. | |
way he just got his mind back, after losing that second set. Wasn't a | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
great end to the second set. Three or four games. Immediately, got his | :51:33. | :51:38. | |
mind back on it and just, right away, puts it right back at him with | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
a double break. When he's in a mind set like this, | :51:41. | :51:54. | |
you don't know where to win points. He is kicking you so far behind the | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
baseline. When he has the opportunity he is attacking you. His | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
defence is pinpoint. Ever the perfectionist though. 4-0 | :52:04. | :52:30. | |
up in the set. Still not happy. Stopped being a physical battle | :52:31. | :53:01. | |
though. He takes an awkward slip in the corner. | :53:02. | :53:11. | |
So much talk of this court being slippy in the build-up to the tie, | :53:12. | :53:19. | |
as a lot of temporary clay courts are. It seems to have bedded in | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
pretty well. Certainly the British play verse kept their footing | :53:26. | :53:26. | |
throughout. -- play have kept their footing | :53:27. | :53:40. | |
throughout. The balance has been true. Often, especially on a Sunday, | :53:41. | :53:47. | |
around the baseline you get awful bounces, but it's been held up as | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
well so far. The third set. You have tales from | :53:51. | :54:04. | |
around the world from your travels. Dodgy clay courts in outposts? The | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
worst I can think of right now is Sri Lanka. | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
Awful red colour. Thick mud. Didn't leave any marks. Treacherous to move | :54:18. | :54:29. | |
on. That was at the low level when I was 16, 17. Presumably whiffy as as | :54:30. | :54:38. | |
well. Was billed as a clay court? No groundsmen needed. No sweeping, no | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
water. Just embedded, thick. Lovely! Apart from that, you play Belgrade, | :54:46. | :54:56. | |
Eastern Europe they are not as true a bounce or at Roland Garros. They | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
don't have the care or history of how to maintain a good clay court. | :55:02. | :55:11. | |
The biggest clay court is in Madrid. They experimented by changing the | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
colour of the clay to blue. Players hitted it. That is a slippery court. | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
I thought the colour looked great. Three points to recover from that | :55:21. | :55:47. | |
one. Corner to corner. Running him around ragged there. James Ward is | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
not in the line there. After that second set, I think he thought, | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
well, might have to play a live match. May have to zip back and get | :55:57. | :56:05. | |
some rest. Haven't seen Donald Young in the bench the whole match. I | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
haven't seen him. No. That's a good point. | :56:12. | :56:26. | |
It's good to watch a set of tennis, before you go out and play a match. | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
If Young was to play. Just to understand the feel, the | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
temperature, the crowd. You come out and sometimes you are a little | :56:38. | :56:39. | |
startled. Scheduled to play CAP ward in the | :56:40. | :57:05. | |
fifth match in this tie. -- Ward in the fifth match in this tie. | :57:06. | :57:18. | |
He does get the job done here. Because Querrey won a set, the Davis | :57:19. | :57:28. | |
Cup rule change that came in in 2011 mean the captains can agree not to | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
play the fifth match. If the tie is over and the first match has gone to | :57:33. | :57:34. | |
either four or five. On super Bowl Sunday, you have to | :57:35. | :57:44. | |
wonder whether that is the likely scenario at the moment. We won't | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
know until this match is complete though. 5-1, Murray. | :57:51. | :58:16. | |
Talking of James Ward, John, I think it's good for Karl Edmonds | :58:17. | :58:29. | |
development he has to work hard to get that number two spot in the | :58:30. | :58:30. | |
team. He will be itching to play. To be a part of the team here, then | :58:31. | :58:49. | |
to watch Ward really pull off a victory that no-one expected. | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
Against an opponent to was way above him in the rankings. That is good | :58:54. | :59:04. | |
for thoim see what you can achieve. -- him to see what you can achieve. | :59:05. | :59:51. | |
Losing his footing a little bit. Failed to recover. Lovely lob from | :59:52. | :00:03. | |
Murray though. 30-40. It's set point. | :00:04. | :01:06. | |
His captain will be proud of him today. He showed a lot of fight. And | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
again , Murray with the backhand down the line. Look at that shop, it | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
is just gorgeous. I wish he would use it more often. | :01:30. | :01:46. | |
That is a 5-1 shot. I don't think he would be heating it at 3-3. A drop | :01:47. | :01:58. | |
shot winner for serve like that, that is a shot that is just not | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
allowed to be played. It is the way Murray takes the | :02:05. | :03:41. | |
racket back, you can't tell which way he is going to go. He holds and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
holds. Britain are one set away from | :03:46. | :04:01. | |
winning in America for the first time since the 1930s. What an | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
achievement this would be for Leon Smith's team. That was the perfect | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
response after the disappointment of losing the second set tie-break. He | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
did very well, Murray. Upped his level and his concentration to show | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
us all why he is so tough to beat over five sets, and Querrey had to | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
play to the level he played out in that tie-break in order to have a | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
chance, and he won't be able to maintain those high standards. | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
Murray has to be the strong favourite to go on and win this in | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
four. Murray is a brilliant professional, used his anger to get | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
back Sam. It is something we touched on earlier, he is a different man | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
now. Early in his career, not playing well towards the end of that | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
second set, losing a tie-break, he could have gone into a slump, but | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
you don't see that in the modern-day Murray. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
His body language now is so much better than it used to be. Apart | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
from getting frustrated with himself, he was loving every minute | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
of it. But he has almost cut that out. By and large, since Ivan Lendl | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
has come into the picture, he has been better. What do you think about | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
coaches coming into the Davis Cup? The American coaches are on site, | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
but the British personal coaches are asked to keep away. If Lendl was | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
there, he would be cheering for the USA! | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
I think it comes down to the top layers, if they have a thing about | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
their coach being there. In my day, we didn't do that. But if a personal | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
coach was that much attached and we wanted it, it was tough to say no. | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
Pete asks whether Murray really needs the team cap and to be in his | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
ear at every changeover. It is not always gain to be tactics and | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
coaching, is it, John? Give us an insight. Do you talk about different | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
stuff to keep the game relaxed? Occasionally. It depends on the | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
personality of the player. Someone like Greg Rusedski, he just wanted | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
to tell you how well he was playing, so I just agreed with that. He liked | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
to be reinforced that everything was going great. Tim Henman didn't | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
really want to much to be said, he liked to do his own thing. He | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
occasionally wanted you to reinforce a couple of things, but otherwise he | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
wanted to do it on his own, which was fine. What about when Greg | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
wasn't playing well? He still thought he was! | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
Excellent start to the set for Sam Querrey, asset he needs to win -- a | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
set he needs to win to keep this tie a life. | :07:42. | :09:02. | |
If that wasn't going out, I think Murray was going to be sitting on | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
the backhand. It was. Fatties break point saved -- that is | :09:07. | :09:58. | |
break point saved. That is Colin Fleming there in the shades. | :09:59. | :10:17. | |
That serve skidded through and stayed low. A little extra juice on | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
that forehand. He has got the balance there, when | :10:24. | :11:09. | |
to play aggressively and when to play persistently. | :11:10. | :11:22. | |
Excellent recovery from Murray in the game, from 15-40 down, one of | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
those chances you feel, suddenly evaporating. He is not going to have | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
to many more. Going back to talking about the | :11:37. | :11:48. | |
captain, the link and the history that Leon Smith and Andy Murray | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
have. He coached him between 12 and 15. Always had a word in his ear | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
throughout the years of advice. You don't have to say too much on the | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
chair, the less the better. Certainly not with the real top, top | :12:05. | :12:19. | |
players. They know what it is about, they have been there and done it | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
hundreds of times. He does have a huge forehand. That | :12:21. | :13:15. | |
was a good forehand that Murray hits to him there, nice indeed. And then | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
all of a sudden, he just crushes it crosscourt. | :13:22. | :13:35. | |
In the modern game now, you have to be so accurate, and you can be | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
punished from so many plays, so many big shop from the baseline. | :13:44. | :14:15. | |
That is also modern technology. The racket slightly stiffer, more | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
control. Different ones are suited to each player. The power of these | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
players, it is quite scary. We will go through some more of your | :14:29. | :14:58. | |
questions in a minute. Keep them coming in. #bbctennis four. He is | :14:59. | :15:12. | |
still serving around 60% in terms of speed on the second serve. | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
I love the way he keeps that shoulder up. Hitting up on the | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
serve, not pulling down. Keeps it up. | :15:28. | :15:43. | |
I think the serve has improved. More aggressive as well, in his game | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
plan, than he used to be. More pro-active on the court. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Roger Federer has always said there are things to improve on. You look | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
at his game and you think, how can he possible improve. It he thinks he | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
can. There are always different things he thinks he can work on. | :16:11. | :16:22. | |
That takes him 2-1 up, in the fourth set, Murray. John makes the point, | :16:23. | :16:35. | |
"I wish I had ?5 for every game Andy has won from 15-40 down." That is | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
true. Paul says "Murray looks in control. Back looks OK" he had | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
surgery last year, missed a lot of the clay season last year because of | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
problems, changes surfaces. There must be relief around from his team | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
that he is in good nick here? Yes. They do a great job. In the prehigh | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
pressure-season he had a lot of treatment making sure the drills | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
were set to strengthen the back. A lot of the drill work to strengthen | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
the back. He struggled on the clay, sliding into his backhand and | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
rotating at the same time. It caused him pain. He has been carrying it | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
for years. I don't know what procedure happened. It has relieved | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
a lot of pain. He is feeling good. Done the trick. A lot of debate as | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
well over the years about Andy Murray's appearances for Britain in | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
this competition, the Davis Cup. He's by no means been an ever | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
present. When Britain were relegated down the | :17:41. | :17:56. | |
divisions, he wanted to make the point that, when I see other players | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
in Great Britain coming through, winning live singles matches, then | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
I'll know we've got a competitive team. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Obviously, you have a team-mate and a former captain in the box here. | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
Just be interested in your thoughts. John, you were always of the opinion | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
if Murray should be there to represent his country, but do you | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
think, in a way, he's been proved right? Well, I personally, it's old | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
school, I personally believe, why would you not want to play, whether | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
your team is in division eight, it's irrelevant. If you are asked to play | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
for your country. You play for your country. That's old school. That's | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
what I believe. Everybody has different opinions on that. | :18:45. | :19:08. | |
Having said that. This round of Davis Cup, it's encouraging that | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
most of the top players, Roger Federer playing at the last-minute, | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
which was great. Unfortunately, no Rafael Nadal, no Novak Djokovic. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Rafael Nadal decided not to play before he got injured. Novak | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Djokovic saying he was exhausted. That's the one I can't believe. He's | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
only just start the season. It's not good in the Davis Cup when the top | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
two players don't play. It's tough on the players' demands, | :19:37. | :19:49. | |
I have o to say, with the Davis Cup format the way it is. I think it | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
should be changed. I've said this for years. | :19:54. | :20:20. | |
Look Secretary of State in control at this moment, doesn't he? That is | :20:21. | :20:36. | |
all the training paying off. That sort of move is what it's all about. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Thousands and thousands of sprints you do. Interval training, all that | :20:42. | :20:51. | |
kind of stuff, just to spring into getting the winner. That's it! | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
That's magnificent. Six foot six, Querrey. Exactly. He | :20:55. | :21:13. | |
needed two or three step ladders for that one. | :21:14. | :21:27. | |
It's a brilliant game. Murray's the world class player turning on the | :21:28. | :21:39. | |
style. As Britain head, seemingly, towards the last eight of the Davis | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
Cup. Work to be done yet. Magic wand in his hand here sometimes. Just the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
touch he has on that backhand there. Just the feel. It's mind-boggling | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
just how good he is. Ross, revisiting that topic of Murray in | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Davis Cup. While we take on board John's opinion, he set that | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
challenge, didn't he, to the other players? You have got to say, Dan | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Evans and James Ward have responded. They both won live matches? They | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
have. It's not a good feeling to be in a team moving down the leagues. | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
We had to make a reaction. The boys did it really well. Under Leon Smith | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
they responded. I think there are so many variables. I agree with John, | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
to an extent, if you're asked to play, yes, initially I would say, | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
you should play. There are different variables to different players in | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
differents countries. Andy wanted a reaction from the players. He hadn't | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
been that fit. He didn't achieve what Nadal and Federer achieved. He | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
wanted the slam from eight years old. He has two. When he feels good | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
and healthy and a good number two play, he will play. That is why he | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
has been here and has been here the last couple of days. He will be | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
there in the future. If he can get the job done here, it | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
will guarantee world group tennis, of course, for a couple of years. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
They won't have to worry about a relegation play-off. Which America | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
will, if they lose this. And Spain. And Serbia. Good point, John. | :23:17. | :23:54. | |
Great opportunity, the Brit. Clear on the Querrey serve. | :23:55. | :24:28. | |
That forehand that Querrey runs round the back and down-the-line. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
Leaves him wide open to run across court. He has been lapping that one | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
up all match. Murray he knows from that position he can't get back in | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
the court. He has to go for a clean winner back the line. Murray would | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
have hosted that back across court and is so quick would have been back | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
in the rally. Such a good athlete. Oh, improadvisation. He adapts to | :24:54. | :25:21. | |
the bounce, to the pace. Up until the last second he was going to play | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
this high and deep. All of a sudden, oops. Great shot. That Querrey, | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
there is no way he could have anticipated that because I don't | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
think anybody else in the world would have done that. That I can | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
think of! No. It's wide! There's the break! | :25:38. | :25:57. | |
Britain are almost home. Unbelievable defence from Murray. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
How he comes out and wins those points, I never know. I've seen it | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
so many times, haven't we all? Full stretch. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Telling Querrey, you have to stand on the baseline from now. Don't go | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
out in this match. Play deep in the court. | :26:23. | :27:08. | |
History made in British tennis over the last 12 months or so. More | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
unfolding here. Murray saying, no need for you to | :27:13. | :27:46. | |
come down, Mr Umpire, I've got that one covered. He gives it to Querrey. | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
Speedily down from his chair, unnecessary. Murray was always going | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
to give that. Nice to have one of those, a match, | :27:56. | :28:14. | |
I always think, when you're away from home to make the spectators to | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
feel that you're a good guy after all. | :28:19. | :28:34. | |
We were talking about it yesterday, in the past I've been away from home | :28:35. | :28:43. | |
ties often spectators push it to the limit of what they're allowed to do | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
and what they do. Nowadays, it's a bit more Melo. -- mellow. | :28:49. | :28:57. | |
In Italy they were throwing coins at us. Charming! We kept them! | :28:58. | :29:23. | |
Oh, battle of the backhands there is really going to be only one winner. | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
Querrey needed to fire a forehand. When he had the opportunity, he | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
skied it almost into the back boards. Ran out of gas here, | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
finally. Had enough of that rally. Leon Smith knows that the moment of | :29:39. | :30:14. | |
victory may not be too far away now. They can feel this coming. They are | :30:15. | :30:31. | |
all getting ready. Still a way to go. They know it's so close right | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
now. It's just phenomenonal performance from Murray. After | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
losing that second to reset so quickly and then right away get back | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
on top of an opponent who was, quite frankly, was playing out of his mind | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
on clay. There was no sign of panic. Just got back to business and look | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
where we are now. Querrey's level hasn't dropped too much. No. He is | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
still playing good tennis. Murray's level went up two or three gears. | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
Reminder of what we are dealing with here. Britain hasn't beaten the | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
United States in the Davis Cup since 1935. Not on clay since 1933. | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
Only three more of those now required. | :31:22. | :31:51. | |
He must have had a few nightmares about this tie. Murray wants to get | :31:52. | :32:46. | |
this done here, you can see it. Talk about those gears that you feel that | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
he can always shift up. He is doing it right here. It makes you | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
appreciate what a player he is. James Ward will be one of the | :32:56. | :33:07. | |
heroes. It was James Ward's victory on the | :33:08. | :34:00. | |
opening day that shifted the whole complexion of this tie. | :34:01. | :34:18. | |
With Britain at 2-0 up, it would have taken a huge recovery from the | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
American team. The speed of Murray up to the net to | :34:23. | :35:24. | |
steer the backhand winner takes Britain into a modern-day unknown | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
territory. Match point to seal the Davis Cup world group win. | :35:31. | :35:59. | |
Well done, Sam Querrey. He has played his part. The way he bounced | :36:00. | :36:07. | |
back from that opening-day disappointment. | :36:08. | :36:16. | |
In the past 18 months, Andy Murray has served for the Olympic gold | :36:17. | :36:35. | |
medal, and he has served for the Wimbledon title. Now he is serving | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
to take Britain into the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup will | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
. That is a great start from Murray. | :36:45. | :37:12. | |
Once again, starting this game off and . | :37:13. | :38:21. | |
On the line. Henrik Molina is absolutely certain there. Querrey is | :38:22. | :38:31. | |
saying that's not a mark. That one is out. It sounded like | :38:32. | :39:08. | |
Murray broke a string there. He did. Nice time for that happen. | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
It is never easy to serve a match out, even if you have got the | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
experience of Murray. Well, even the best get nervous. And | :39:21. | :40:06. | |
a double fault keeps America interested. | :40:07. | :40:21. | |
Suddenly recalling the torture of that final game in the Wimbledon | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
final. What a rally! That may be the best | :40:24. | :40:55. | |
defensive play that Sam Querrey has played in the whole match, to keep | :40:56. | :40:56. | |
himself in that point. First break point saved. Another one | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
to come. There is another 15-40 that he is | :41:03. | :41:44. | |
taken to deuce. His favourite plays, going across court. | :41:45. | :42:11. | |
This is so good from Murray. He had that shot in mind since four shots | :42:12. | :42:19. | |
before the winner. Yes, he has done it! History boy | :42:20. | :42:59. | |
rewrite small records. Great Britain are into the quarterfinals of the | :43:00. | :43:02. | |
Davis Cup for the first time in 28 years. And the United States beaten | :43:03. | :43:09. | |
in their San Diego backyard. Great scenes. The whole team has | :43:10. | :43:39. | |
played its part. Murray leading the way with two really professional | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
victories. James Ward fantastic on the opening day. The unexpected | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
results. Colin Fleming and Dominic Inglot who played the doubles tested | :43:51. | :43:57. | |
the Bryan brothers, but couldn't get the win. That is what it means to | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
Murray. So, it will be Italy away in the | :44:01. | :44:17. | |
quarterfinals at the start of the clay-court season in April. Possibly | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
Switzerland in the semifinals if Britain can get through that, but we | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
will enjoy this while we can, one round at a time. It means no chance | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
either of having a relegation play-off at the end of this year. | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
World group tennis guaranteed for 2015 for Leon Smith's side. And | :44:40. | :44:48. | |
unassailable 3-1 lead for Great Britain over the United States. | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
SUE BARKER: Through to the quarterfinals, and that will take | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
place in Italy, April 4-6. At the bottom there, Switzerland | :44:56. | :45:19. | |
with Stanislas Wawrinka and Roger Federer will face Kazakhstan in the | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
quarterfinals. We are now being told that there will be no final rubber, | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
so no more match to come from San Diego. But I think they will want to | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
celebrate anyway. Because that is what it is all about. To go over | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
there, they weren't really the favourites going into this match. It | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
is incredible, and amazing team achievement. To win in San Diego | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
away against America for the first time in so many years, a superb | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
formance from Andy Murray and James Ward, so thrilled. What a match | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
today, great atmosphere. And great tennis. Was aggressive and took | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
Murray on. He tried everything he could. He was brilliant today. | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
Murray had to play well to get through that match. He was a tough | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
opponent. Wonderful tennis. I bet Querrey is thinking, why didn't I | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
play like that in the first match. He was fantastic. Is about nerves. | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
The pressure was on him on Friday. He wanted to show his team-mates he | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
will produce a upset. The start of the third Murray flipped into a | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
different gear. He played incredibly well. Despatched him 6-1, 6-3, | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
Britain, next level, into the quarters. Will show a few points | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
while we wait for interviews. This is one of the points of the match. | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
It happened in the second set. This was at deuce at 3-3. Sit back and | :46:55. | :47:01. | |
admire this. Terrific tennis. From both players. | :47:02. | :47:21. | |
What more can you do? If you are Sam Querrey, what more could he have | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
done in that point? No, throughout a lot of the match as well. That | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
point, was outrageous. Andy playing so well. Also, just the movement as | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
well. We were told this court was a bit slippy. It wasn't very good. | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
Boy, it was moving well today? He was. You know, he defends, Ross and | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
I were talking about, we talk about how aggressive players are. The | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
defensive capabilities. Every point he is made of rubber. He gets it | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
back. Sam is belting balls away, they keep coming back. You can't do | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
it for three or four hours to beat Murray over five sets. That is the | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
problem. Is a big occasion player, isn't he? Let us hear from him now. | :48:05. | :48:10. | |
So many congratulations. Into the quarter-finals of the World Group | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
for the first time in 28 years. Quite a battle in the first two sets | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
against, Sam? Yeah, it was. Again at the end there. You know, he came out | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
playing extremely aggressive. He was being very aggressive on my serve. | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
Changed the tactics, beginning of the third set. I dictated a lot of | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
points after that. I made my service games challenging for him. I | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
dictated a lot of points. He slowed down his serve and made it easier | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
for me to break. A change of tactics helped. Have seen you win so many | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
tie-breaks over your career when you are playing for yourself effect nifl | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
grand slams. It's more stressful in a Davis Cup surroundings? Um... Yeah | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
it's different. It's different. You know, we... You know have a | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
responsibility to your team-mates to play well. But, at the same time, a | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
I have a lot of experience I have played Davis Cup matches and | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
tie-breaks over my career, slams and tough. You know how to deal with it | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
relatively well. Against a big server like Sam, when he serves | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
well, he puts pressure on your serve. He took advantage of second | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
serves in that second set tie-break. We will bring in your team-mates in | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
a moment. What is it like to have the guys in red so close to the | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
court making as much noise as they can between points? That is what is | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
great about Davis Cup. We have a really good team spirit. I have | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
known a lot of the guys for a long, long time. I have known Leon since I | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
was a young child. I used to practice when Colin when I was 10 | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
years old. I've known him since, you know, Kyle, I trained with him in | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
December. His coach, who is here as well. Yeah, it's just... It's just | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
nice to play with those guys because, you know, it's very | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
independent when you're on the Tour on your own. Here it's not like that | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
at all. There is pressure because you have a responsibility to your | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
team-mates, at the same time, this he have done such a good job helping | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
to put me in positions to close out matches and also winning some big | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
ties themselves. James has come out with huge wins over the last few | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
years. Italy away in the first week of April. Might need to dust down | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
those clay court shoes? It's good for me to play on the clay. You | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
know, often you know going into the clay court season I haven't played | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
any play court tennis for 11 months. So, to play another match on clay, I | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
assume they will play it on clay, you never know, it will be a tough, | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
tough match. Fabulous performance. Thank you very much indeed, Andy. | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
ThankThank you. Smith, the Great Britain Davis Cup captain. Move you | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
into shot. Congratulations again. I know you will say it's down to the | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
players, but you have played your part too. It's been another amazing | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
weekend? Yeah. I mean, Andy was superb there. Sam came out swinging, | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
as we thought he would do. Playing risk-free tennis. He did great for | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
two sets obviously. Once Andy started to get the ball moving | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
around a little bit more, he served and his percentage went way up in | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
the last two sets. That tired out Sam. A massesive team effort. We | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
don't see the work that gets done after the tennis is gone. Shane our | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
physio who is one of a lot of physios who has six, banging out | :51:29. | :51:32. | |
12-hour days on all the players. His hands must be gone. All the coaches. | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
I mean all of them leave here without any voices. Can you hear | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
them shouting their heads off. We should be proud of the team spirit | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
and what the guys have created here. We can see how close we are. You | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
have come along way as well, haven't you? When you took over... . YEAH | :51:47. | :51:55. | |
Not the easest thing broadcasting live with these auto three guys | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
around you. They are part of the team. A team that has come a long | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
way. It was a Group 2 relegation tie your first one in charge four years | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
ago? Slightly different environment to what we are playing in today. I | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
was saying to the guys during the week, when we were showing a journey | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
video of all the ties we have done. There were 11 different players who | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
have played in the team over the years. It has been a team effort. | :52:20. | :52:22. | |
The same support staff, coaching staff that have been there since the | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
start, since I took over. It's great to have this team spirit running | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
through everybody. No, these guys deserve a lot of credit. They pulled | :52:32. | :52:34. | |
everyone through today as well. James, you don't need to play today. | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
You deserve the afternoon off after that amazing win on Friday. The that | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
turned the match, didn't it really? Yeah. Obviously, Andy has won both | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
matches, he had to produce a big performance today. Glad I could do | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
my bit on Friday. Was it like watching today knowing you may have | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
to play a decountriesive fifth rubber After the seconded set I went | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
in to get ready. Once it was 6-1 in the third full confidence in Andy to | :53:06. | :53:14. | |
get the job done. You left at just the right moment. God food. In the | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
same of three games Andy broke twice - He doesn't want me anywhere near | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
his court. That is why I was first on the court afterwards. It was down | :53:24. | :53:28. | |
to me leaving. Great job by him. It's fantastic today he could do so | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
well. Everyone else, Ward, great job on Friday. Leon, Captain, fantastic | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
over here. Unbelievable experience. Has the weekend been like for you? | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
Just, I can't explain it. Being on the court is fantastic. It's like | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
playing for Britain, for your country, you know singing the | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
National Anthem. That was like, for me... It will stay with me for the | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
rest of my life. Loving it. Here he is. You remember the dark days, you | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
played in that tie in Lithuanian in early 2010 when Britain were beaten? | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
I was there in Lithuania. It was a different feeling to what it is here | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
today. It's been a lot of hard work to get back here. A lot of tough | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
matches have been won. Another one today. It sums it up. It was... | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
What's that? Stop talking so much. Come on... It's been a great | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
journey. It's been a great journey to get here. It's time for the next | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
generation. Kyle, close to playing here and making your Davis Cup | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
debut. An important part of the team. How has it been for you? It's | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
been great. All the experience counts. I have been here three times | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
now. The first was against Russia. First time comeback from 2-0 down | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
was unbelievable. To win a World Group match for the first time in so | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
long, great to be part of. Well done to all of you. You have been playing | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
the word game articulate on a regular basis every evening. Will | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
you do something more exciting than that tonight? We are going to Vegas! | :55:02. | :55:09. | |
YEAH! So professional. Done to all of you. We look forward to the | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
quarter-final in a couple of months' time. Enjoy the moment. Thanks. I | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
hope they really do enjoy the moment. John, it's such great news | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
for British tennis, isn't it? It is. With Andy doing so well, winning two | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
slams. A Davis Cup team in the quarter-finals. As I said earlier, I | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
do believe this, we can win this if Murray keeps playing we've got a | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
shot. He's that good. So why not. How special would that be? Italy | :55:37. | :55:44. | |
have great players. They are beatable? They are beatable. Andy, | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
when he's in your team, you feel good about. It he is a fantastic | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
player who can play three days. So fit. It's a good tie for us. We have | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
a chance. There are tougher ties, Serbia away, Switzerland away. You | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
know, Andy in our team, hopefully he will play. Really exciting and win | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
the quarter-finals. We can look forward to that. James Ward has come | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
of age? Huge win for him. He set the tone really, didn't he? When he won | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
that match, unexpected, the team from then on wards marvellous | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
performance by him he justified his place in the singles. Has been a | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
wonderful time over in San Diego. We went there, not really expecting to | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
be the favourites, but in the tend was a wonderful Friday going two up. | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
Then today Andy Murray sealed the win. It's 28 years the last time | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
that Great Britain were in the quarter-finals. 9 years that they | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
last beat the United States. So much to celebrate. Well done to Leon | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
Smith and his team. From all of us here, a very goodbye and see you in | :56:47. | :56:48. | |
April, in Italy. Bye bye. # Give me the moment | :56:49. | :57:06. | |
# Some type of experience # Give me a shot at the light | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
# Give a moment # Some kind of experience | :57:13. | :57:22. | |
Time for a quick update from 60 Seconds here on Three. Actor Philip | :57:23. | :57:42. | |
Seymour Hoffman has been found dead | :57:43. | :57:44. |