Semi-Final - Great Britain v Argentina: Day 3

:00:40. > :00:50.Great Britain have done it in the most spectacular style. Andy Murray.

:00:51. > :00:54.Unbeaten. In 2015, Great Britain, spearheaded by Andy Murray, won the

:00:55. > :00:59.Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years. On Friday, the defence of

:01:00. > :01:05.that title was given a severe examination by Argentina, in

:01:06. > :01:17.Glasgow. Revenge for Rio, misery for Murray.

:01:18. > :01:24.The defending champions grip on the Davis Cup is a flimsy one, after day

:01:25. > :01:29.one of the semifinal, Great Britain 0- to Argentina. Yesterday with the

:01:30. > :01:38.tie on the line, two local heroes came to the rescue. There it is, the

:01:39. > :01:44.flame flickers. Britain's Davis Cup dream is still alive. Throughout its

:01:45. > :01:50.history, sport is sprinkled with unlikely comebacks. Ask Sir Ian

:01:51. > :01:55.Botham, Sir Alex Ferguson, Rafa Benitez and Europe's golfers. If

:01:56. > :01:58.Europe's grip on the trophy is to remain firm, they need another one

:01:59. > :02:03.here. The unthinkable could not happen again, credit?

:02:04. > :02:08.Certainly what the 8000 British fans are hoping for today. Welcome to the

:02:09. > :02:14.Emirates Arena for what promises to be another drama filled afternoon of

:02:15. > :02:18.tennis. Britain need to win both single matches to go through to the

:02:19. > :02:25.final. We have the two reverse singles matches. Andy Murray first

:02:26. > :02:30.encore. What he has left in the tank, we don't know, he is up

:02:31. > :02:36.against Guido Pella. Kyle Edmund still in the order. Maybe Leon Smith

:02:37. > :02:41.will bring in Dan Evans. We'll Juan Martin Del Potro play the second

:02:42. > :02:48.singles match? That is what we will talk about. John and Jamie are with

:02:49. > :02:55.me. Big surprise, maybe Del Potro Winslade? It will be a staggering

:02:56. > :03:01.decision, if he does not play. I find it hard to believe that Del

:03:02. > :03:06.Potro won't play. Why on earth did he put himself in the doubles? If he

:03:07. > :03:11.was not fit enough to play three matches. I don't understand the

:03:12. > :03:16.decision. What is your take on it? We were amazed with how well he

:03:17. > :03:22.coped with the Murray match. If there was any doubt in the

:03:23. > :03:27.Argentinian team, 2-0 up, worst case scenario we have Del Potro, in the

:03:28. > :03:32.singles. To think there in a position where that might not be the

:03:33. > :03:37.case, unthinkable. If we talk about it, when Juan Martin Del Potro went

:03:38. > :03:39.into the press conference, he had this to say, when asked if he would

:03:40. > :03:49.play tomorrow... He's saying maybe his body is not

:03:50. > :03:54.strong enough to play a best-of-5 sets singles match. Why did he not

:03:55. > :03:59.make that one more match in the singles, not the doubles? Giving

:04:00. > :04:05.himself 24 hours to recover and go from it. The most illogical

:04:06. > :04:11.decision, if it happens. I have been talking to the Argentinian

:04:12. > :04:15.journalists, he said he could not play the signals, and the coach

:04:16. > :04:19.said, would you try in the doubles? We have a better chance of playing

:04:20. > :04:25.with him in the team. That is a good point. Against the Murray brothers,

:04:26. > :04:29.whatever team they put out, they would not be favourites. Maybe that

:04:30. > :04:34.is the case. We have to take into consideration what Del Potro said,

:04:35. > :04:38.somebody who had so much time out, getting back to a high level. He

:04:39. > :04:42.does not want to risk that, he could have another five years at the top

:04:43. > :04:47.of the game if he takes care of himself. Apologies if we are

:04:48. > :04:51.shouting. We are competing with the magnificent pipers, getting the

:04:52. > :04:55.crowd revved up for this afternoon. We got there early to see who was

:04:56. > :04:57.practising after that strange comment in the press conference.

:04:58. > :05:02.Juan Martin Del Potro came out on Juan Martin Del Potro came out on

:05:03. > :05:07.court. Looking very lacklustre. Only stayed on court for ten minutes.

:05:08. > :05:15.Does not look promising that he will play. His reaction here, does not

:05:16. > :05:19.look happy. Having said that, one of the most laid-back guys I have ever

:05:20. > :05:23.seen. The reaction was not good after he finished a practice

:05:24. > :05:28.session. Very casually strolling to the umpire's chair. Does not look

:05:29. > :05:32.good to me. Staggered by the decision, if it comes about.

:05:33. > :05:39.Interesting after the singles match against Andy. They asked him, are

:05:40. > :05:44.you tired. He says he could not even feel his legs, so tired. Out of the

:05:45. > :05:49.game for 2.5 years, in some ways not surprising. That saw nurse, after a

:05:50. > :05:53.match like that with such huge physical exertions, to day he will

:05:54. > :05:59.be feeling the worst, two days afterwards. With the singles match

:06:00. > :06:04.ahead. Only been on the core ten minutes at that pace, while the

:06:05. > :06:10.first singles matches on, not really anywhere else to physically warm up.

:06:11. > :06:15.Not another practice court. He will not start running around the arena,

:06:16. > :06:20.to get loose. Probably from that, only being on court ten minutes, not

:06:21. > :06:25.looking good. The most magnificent smoke screen in Davis Cup history,

:06:26. > :06:34.or he will not play. If he does not, the captain has two options. Their

:06:35. > :06:40.highest ranked player. All Leonardo Mayer, who played well in the

:06:41. > :06:46.doubles yesterday. He has a very did Davis Cup record, a very respected

:06:47. > :06:53.Davis Argentinian journalist said he was told he would play. He started

:06:54. > :06:58.nervously, missing a lot of volleys, but he played a match. Davis Cup

:06:59. > :07:05.record is very good. Ranked 114, he was as high as 21 in June last year.

:07:06. > :07:13.Right at the top of the rankings. We think it will be Dan Evans. Few

:07:14. > :07:19.matches up best against Ben Evans? On this court, they would rather

:07:20. > :07:25.have Leonardo Mayer. He is better suited to make quicker court. From

:07:26. > :07:29.the British team, my thought on Ben Evans was playing was based on the

:07:30. > :07:35.fact that Del Potro was the court. Would Kyle Edmund be a better

:07:36. > :07:38.option? They don't have to say until ten minutes before the match. We

:07:39. > :07:44.won't know until later this afternoon. We are all assuming Dan

:07:45. > :07:51.Evans is going to play. That was because of Del Potro. We are

:07:52. > :08:00.cramming into the mix that Kyle Edmund is out, he may well. If you

:08:01. > :08:04.have it going down to the fifth match, he would you have as your

:08:05. > :08:09.pick? Definitely Dan Evans on this court. Keane in this situation

:08:10. > :08:15.before, winning a couple of deciding matches. The type of character, he

:08:16. > :08:20.won't worry about anything. Getting the opponent is a lot of problems.

:08:21. > :08:24.He was the most vocal guy on the GB bench yesterday. He knows he's in

:08:25. > :08:29.with a chance with playing in the fifth match, he wants to be the man

:08:30. > :08:36.in the spotlight. Both he and Kyle are in tremendous form. Dan Evans'

:08:37. > :08:41.match against Stan Wawrinka, he had match point, playing some of the

:08:42. > :08:47.best tennis I have ever seen. He was brilliant at the US Open. He has won

:08:48. > :08:51.fifth matches in the Davis Cup in his career, winning five set

:08:52. > :08:57.matches. A won't bother him. If it comes down to the fifth match, he

:08:58. > :09:01.will play. Who would be a Davis Cup captain? Not easy. Gives everyone a

:09:02. > :09:08.lift. Everybody thought Del Potro would sail through. Now very much in

:09:09. > :09:12.the balance. Nobody knows. Sometimes these Davis Cup matches can be

:09:13. > :09:17.predictable. This match, with Murray playing Del Potro, it has opened the

:09:18. > :09:22.whole thing up. We have been guessing about every single match,

:09:23. > :09:25.who will play. We don't know who will step on the court until after

:09:26. > :09:32.Andy Murray's match. We're presuming he wins. Talking about the fifth

:09:33. > :09:35.match, because we are used to Andy Murray sailing through these

:09:36. > :09:43.matches. He is up against Guido Pella. It will be tough. We think he

:09:44. > :09:48.is like the Man of Steel, cannot lose. He has been through an

:09:49. > :09:54.exhausting year. Pella will hit a lot of balls back. Played well in

:09:55. > :10:00.his first match. He will think he has nothing to lose against Andy.

:10:01. > :10:05.And he has to work three players. It will be physical, a demanding match.

:10:06. > :10:08.I think Andy will win, not surprisingly there is out there for

:10:09. > :10:13.a long time. He has such a big heart, he will put himself. He must

:10:14. > :10:20.be running on empty, or lower than empty. He looked so sharp and

:10:21. > :10:24.practice. He has been empty from the start, not a lot of time to

:10:25. > :10:29.recharge. He can see light at the end of the tunnel. If he can push

:10:30. > :10:38.one more big match. He gets a rest after this one. The defence of the

:10:39. > :10:43.title on the line, in Glasgow, Scotland. Andy Murray will not lose

:10:44. > :10:50.this match if fit. Looking back to yesterday. Murray had to pick

:10:51. > :10:54.himself up after that five set loss to Del Potro. He had his moments in

:10:55. > :11:03.the doubles, Jamie Murray playing so well. We will say some of the --

:11:04. > :11:09.show some of the class around the net. They want better around the

:11:10. > :11:14.net, the reflexive is, the angles. This was a big match from Jamie

:11:15. > :11:18.Murphy, he sensed he had to be the leader. Andy has gone through so

:11:19. > :11:24.much physically. He came through, the best player on the court. What a

:11:25. > :11:31.year he has had. A delight to watch his hands, at the net, they were

:11:32. > :11:38.quite phenomenal. Playing so well. He picked Andy up. Playing better at

:11:39. > :11:42.the end of the match. You think about how the match went, the

:11:43. > :11:48.British team for- three down with a break in the third set. Jamie Murray

:11:49. > :11:51.comedy had not started as well as he did, could have been a different

:11:52. > :11:57.story. They could have been two sets down. Great to see Jamie McCourt. In

:11:58. > :12:02.the last ten months he has improved again. The way he manages his game,

:12:03. > :12:08.his play at the net is unbelievable. Does not have a top-spin forehand,

:12:09. > :12:13.but he manages it well. Like an old-fashioned block. Hard to do

:12:14. > :12:18.anything against it. At 1-1, a break down, looked as if the match was

:12:19. > :12:25.giving in Argentina's favour. One point turning it around. If you

:12:26. > :12:28.watch it, and watch Murray's reaction, got himself so fired up.

:12:29. > :12:36.After that, getting better and better. Definitely needed a point

:12:37. > :12:40.like that. Lifted the whole crowd. He was looking the whole time for

:12:41. > :12:45.the first hour, what is going to get me going? That was it. The Speaker

:12:46. > :12:50.of the house enjoying it. Match point in the great reaction from the

:12:51. > :12:56.brothers. They had to win that one to keep it alive. The Argentinian

:12:57. > :13:02.team were very dangerous. Very dangerous, the court was medium

:13:03. > :13:08.speed. They were returning so well. Del Potro staying back, Leonardo

:13:09. > :13:12.Mayer crossing a lot. Awkward sort of match. I never thought they would

:13:13. > :13:16.lose, came close in the third set. Once again, Jamie Murray, the man of

:13:17. > :13:20.the match. Exceptional doubles team, combining so well together. They are

:13:21. > :13:27.brothers, they have that sixth sense. Difficult to beat, unbeaten

:13:28. > :13:30.in the Davis Cup. I have said before, the best single players will

:13:31. > :13:36.be very good only doubles court. That combination you were talking

:13:37. > :13:41.about, they seem to have, amazing. Hardly played doubles matches

:13:42. > :13:44.together. Not like they're coming into any match. These are

:13:45. > :13:51.high-pressure matches every time. They managed to get through, never

:13:52. > :13:55.last. So important to come through. What a year Jamie Murray has heard.

:13:56. > :13:59.Winning the Davis Cup, so many crucial doubles matches. Coming

:14:00. > :14:06.three to win the Australian and US Open. I think the Davis Cup has

:14:07. > :14:10.helped Jamie Murray. Winning Grand Slams, but playing Davis Cup matches

:14:11. > :14:14.before the slams, I think gave him the confidence to go out there, in

:14:15. > :14:20.matches so important like this. Getting him going, he has gone up

:14:21. > :14:23.another level. Lovely Mahmood, these brothers realising how important the

:14:24. > :14:30.fans are. They got behind them when it mattered. I asked Leon and Jamie

:14:31. > :14:34.before the tie, whether they had a chance to soak up the atmosphere and

:14:35. > :14:41.support they get during the matches? Sometimes so focused, they don't

:14:42. > :14:46.appreciate it. We saw how emotional Jamie was at the end, he was taking

:14:47. > :14:50.it in. He knows these moments don't happen everyday. To put that to one

:14:51. > :14:54.side, use it to an advantage, win matches, the skill of the great

:14:55. > :15:01.athlete. We talked about Andy Murray, physically, mentally that

:15:02. > :15:06.win will have given him a boost. Definitely, as Jamie said, coming to

:15:07. > :15:11.the end of the year. A few months to go. He can take a rest. This is a

:15:12. > :15:15.huge match. Get through this one, do his part, he can take some

:15:16. > :15:20.relaxation. I think he will get through this one. The players making

:15:21. > :15:28.their way to the court. Andy Murray taking on Guido Pella. There is Leon

:15:29. > :15:31.Smith. Being captain, having Andy in the team, you have been in that

:15:32. > :15:38.seat, wonderful to have that sort of player. Absolutely, almost a banker

:15:39. > :15:42.win every time he steps on court. A shock to the system when he lost to

:15:43. > :15:46.Del Potro. Look at the way he bounced back in the doubles, the

:15:47. > :15:51.sort of player he is. I have no doubt he will win this match. First

:15:52. > :15:59.up for Argentina, Guido Pella on court.

:16:00. > :16:36.Representing Argentina, please welcome Guido Pella.

:16:37. > :16:41.Now accompanied by his captain, Leon Smith, representing Great Britain,

:16:42. > :17:27.it is Andy Murray. Nicola Sturgeon leading the

:17:28. > :17:31.applause. We have been in Glasgow often, the crowd playing their part.

:17:32. > :17:42.Even when the British team played in Belgium, the fans lifted the

:17:43. > :17:49.players, felt like home tie. The staff behind the scenes have done a

:17:50. > :17:52.great job, rousing support. The away matches the British team have played

:17:53. > :17:55.felt like home once. Even the Serbia quarterfinal, the stadium was not

:17:56. > :17:57.that full, but a lot of British people there.

:17:58. > :18:15.The way this is shaping up, fantastic day for the Davis Cup and

:18:16. > :18:20.Britain. We have to accept Andy Murray is exhausted, this is a

:18:21. > :18:28.difficult opponent. The problem for Guido Pella, this is a difficult

:18:29. > :18:33.player. He does not have a big serve, Andy has a big service game,

:18:34. > :18:36.grand strokes very good. I cannot see where he can hurt Annie, the

:18:37. > :18:41.only way is if Andy is physically tired. For a match of this

:18:42. > :18:50.importance, cannot see Andy letting himself be beaten. He will feed off

:18:51. > :18:55.the crowd. You commentators on Pella against Edmonds. Solid player. He is

:18:56. > :19:00.the type of guy, you look at him, thinking what does he have, what is

:19:01. > :19:05.the bringing to the table to win a lot of points? Actually, does not

:19:06. > :19:12.work like a lot, does not have a standout shot, but he will won the

:19:13. > :19:17.match because he was so solid. Pella played his best tennis as the match

:19:18. > :19:21.went on, the sign of a good player. You cannot get to 40 something in

:19:22. > :19:26.the world without being good. He will be a test for Andy Murray, he

:19:27. > :19:31.will have to be on his game. He is left-handed, that is playing into

:19:32. > :19:36.his strength. A left-hander playing against Andy Murray, never

:19:37. > :19:40.advantage. You don't want to see the back and return coming at you. I

:19:41. > :19:46.don't see so many aces coming from the Argentinian. As far as Andy is

:19:47. > :19:51.concerned, how he played yesterday, that has boosted him in some way.

:19:52. > :19:55.The way he closed out the match, forgotten what happened the day

:19:56. > :20:02.before. The end of the match was important. He was very clear, high

:20:03. > :20:07.fives to my brother, he played well the whole way through. He struggled

:20:08. > :20:12.through the first half-hour, but something. He knows this is his last

:20:13. > :20:17.big physical tests for quite a while. He knows he can lead

:20:18. > :20:21.everything here today. Let people carry him off the court if they have

:20:22. > :20:26.too. There is the Stirling University barmy Army. Jamie, you

:20:27. > :20:32.will be courtside with them. They have been loud in your ear. A few

:20:33. > :20:37.people have said to me, I don't know how you sit there and do it so

:20:38. > :20:42.often. I know other people say, I need to go, I am out of here. They

:20:43. > :20:47.are quiet, but they have one song after another. They will try to lift

:20:48. > :20:56.their man, Andy Murray. He has done it so often in the Davis Cup, also a

:20:57. > :21:02.vector Beasant last 12 months. -- a magnificent last 12 months. Great

:21:03. > :21:09.Britain have done it in the most spectacular style. The Sports

:21:10. > :21:14.Personality of the Year for 2015 is the Incan parable Andy Murray. To my

:21:15. > :21:29.wife, Kim, I'm on the next flight home. He is there, Wimbledon

:21:30. > :21:36.champion again. Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold medallist.

:21:37. > :21:45.Where do you start? He has become a dad, carrying the flag at the

:21:46. > :21:49.opening ceremony, winning the Davis Cup, two grand slam titles, amazing.

:21:50. > :21:54.You'd think what else can he do? Absolutely spectacular. How much

:21:55. > :21:59.emotion, how much does he have left in the tank? All these physical

:22:00. > :22:04.highs and lows, tremendous year. One he will remember forever. If he can

:22:05. > :22:11.sneak this one, Great Britain win this tie is somehow who knows where

:22:12. > :22:16.it will go? It will keep on going. We noticed against Del Potro, Leon

:22:17. > :22:21.Smith was trying to get him to come forward, attacking the Del Potro

:22:22. > :22:26.backhand. Not his natural game, did not feel comfortable, he will be

:22:27. > :22:32.happier today. The reason with Del Potro, he was getting hurt in the

:22:33. > :22:38.big rallies. To date, not a big threat from the grand strokes are

:22:39. > :22:41.Pella. It is more Andy Murray being patient, taking the right shots,

:22:42. > :22:50.playing his normal game, he will be OK. You can hear the cheering

:22:51. > :22:55.behind. He has changed British tennis completely? Here's a one in a

:22:56. > :22:59.lifetime. Lucky to have him. Every match he plays is special. This

:23:00. > :23:04.crowd knows it. How long he will be around? Hopefully many years. What

:23:05. > :23:10.he is than the British tennis, staggering. The legacy of the whole

:23:11. > :23:16.Murray family, building. Let's not forget Jamie, all he has achieved?

:23:17. > :23:21.Number one in the world, Andy has not achieved that. The only thing he

:23:22. > :23:26.has not. I'm sure he will. Tremendous family. Scottish tennis,

:23:27. > :23:30.British tennis, if we do not take advantage of these two brothers now,

:23:31. > :23:37.we will never take advantage of anything. The good news for all of

:23:38. > :23:41.us, and he said he wants to carry on playing for at least another four

:23:42. > :23:46.years. We have this to look forward to. Say special, everyone singing. A

:23:47. > :23:50.big celebration of tennis in this country. You don't get anything like

:23:51. > :23:57.this on the tour. Grand Slams, great. Davis Cup, home tie, no

:23:58. > :24:02.feeling like it. The players know that. When they step out on court,

:24:03. > :24:10.they don't get this the rest of the year. Something special, magical.

:24:11. > :24:13.You don't get this anywhere else. The LTA choosing these wonderful

:24:14. > :24:20.Scottish records, performance, getting the crowd up. Wonderful for

:24:21. > :24:26.everyone, inspiring the next generation. You talk about the

:24:27. > :24:32.crowd, I look back to the old days, he would always think about going

:24:33. > :24:38.away to Argentina, Spain, how ferocious the crowd was. We did not

:24:39. > :24:41.talk about British crowds that way. Believe me, other teams when they

:24:42. > :24:46.come here they know they have this to compete with. Like having a fifth

:24:47. > :24:51.player in your team. The British team taking it to another level with

:24:52. > :24:57.their support. Such a knowledgeable crowd. They know that Andy is so

:24:58. > :25:02.tired, busy season. They will try to lift the first set, get on top of

:25:03. > :25:07.Pella very quickly. We talk about Howedes or is that the players are,

:25:08. > :25:12.of course they are. The crowd do not stop from the beginning, sometimes

:25:13. > :25:26.nine hours. Not one Lal. At every single point. -- quiet moment. Thank

:25:27. > :25:33.you so much. We will sit back, not forward to this entertaining

:25:34. > :25:40.afternoon of tennis. If you want to get in touch, you can get involved.

:25:41. > :25:46.Our website, or via our Facebook page. What do you think of Andy

:25:47. > :25:50.Murray, the Murray brothers, the atmosphere, the Davis Cup? Any

:25:51. > :25:55.supporters from Argentina, we want to hear your comments. Jamie Baker

:25:56. > :26:06.has made his way to the commentary box to during John Inverdale. -- to

:26:07. > :26:10.join. COMMENTATOR: You could say before

:26:11. > :26:18.any sporting event, before a ball has been kicked, we could be in for

:26:19. > :26:23.one evening. As is so often, in the course of the past decade, this man

:26:24. > :26:27.is centre stage. Winning Sports Personality of the Year last year,

:26:28. > :26:35.without equal in the context of British sport. When you look at this

:26:36. > :26:39.match, it is going to be over to Kyle Edmund, or Dan Evans, if he

:26:40. > :26:42.wins this one. To try and accomplish one of the great escape acts in

:26:43. > :27:49.British sport. Here we go. Hello, Jamie. On the Richter scale,

:27:50. > :27:53.the geographical thing. On the Murray scale, where do you put that?

:27:54. > :28:47.That was up there, 15 minutes of continuous euphoria.

:28:48. > :28:52.Everybody in the Emirates Arena thought that was long. Andy Murray

:28:53. > :28:59.thought it was long. Kept playing, the rally kept going. Couple of long

:29:00. > :29:06.exchanges already in this game. The start of this match could be

:29:07. > :29:12.interesting. Attempting to blow Pella off the court. He has the

:29:13. > :29:58.physical ability to grind pretty much anyone down.

:29:59. > :30:11.He served 35 aces against Del Potro. But it wasn't enough to win.

:30:12. > :30:15.Hopefully he won't need quite that many today. Let's talk about his

:30:16. > :30:21.opponent. There's almost nothing new to be said about Andy. You watch

:30:22. > :30:25.Pella on Friday against Kyle Edmund. He was obviously nervous at the

:30:26. > :30:30.start. The longer it went on, the more assured, the more composed, the

:30:31. > :30:35.more difficult the opponent he clearly was. That was the impressive

:30:36. > :30:39.thing. He looked like he had a big match temperament. You can talk

:30:40. > :30:46.about the forehand and backhand and the serve until you go blue in the

:30:47. > :31:29.face, but in this situation that's the most important thing to look at.

:31:30. > :31:38.We spoke on Friday about Andy coming into the net, and you spoke about it

:31:39. > :31:44.before the match today. This was the perfect tactic, getting the ball

:31:45. > :31:48.behind Pella. He's got such a good understanding of when to hit a hard

:31:49. > :32:02.volley and when to take the pace off, like that.

:32:03. > :32:19.He's not here just to make up the numbers and to get us to 2-2 and a

:32:20. > :33:33.decider. How does the Del Potro, will he

:33:34. > :33:38.won't he play in the final match, which we are speculating about

:33:39. > :33:43.because we don't know, affect Pella in this match? If he knew Del Potro

:33:44. > :33:48.was definitely playing afterwards, could he be more gung ho in this

:33:49. > :33:54.game? He may well know who Argentina are putting in the final match. How

:33:55. > :33:58.does that impact on how he might approach this game? Your final point

:33:59. > :34:03.is key. He will know who's playing the final match.

:34:04. > :34:19.But I also think just because the gap between the two players, he's

:34:20. > :34:23.got to play the best match of his life regardless of what's happening.

:34:24. > :34:25.That mindset might differ if it was somebody more evenly matched in

:34:26. > :35:53.terms of ranking. On the basis of the first eight

:35:54. > :35:58.minutes, the fact league that was very obvious in the first set from

:35:59. > :36:03.Andy's point of view seems to have evaporated. I think we'll see a very

:36:04. > :36:10.professional performance from Andy Murray today. What do we read into

:36:11. > :36:23.that? That is interesting. That was Dan Evans leaving Vierinha. -- the

:36:24. > :36:31.arena. And... So is Leonardo Meyer. Yes! I'm looking to see if Delport

:36:32. > :36:40.row is still down at courtside. -- Delport Road. I can't see. The

:36:41. > :36:45.inference, or maybe it's a red herring, who knows. Anyway, how

:36:46. > :36:55.interesting could this tide be if it ended up being Mayer against Evans.

:36:56. > :37:01.When the great British surge in the Davis Cup happened against Russia,

:37:02. > :37:03.coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2, who won the fifth and final match? Dan

:37:04. > :38:10.Evans. He ended up losing that point, Andy

:38:11. > :38:14.Murray, but the Pella serve was one area Kyle Edmund had a massive issue

:38:15. > :38:19.reading on Friday. Couldn't tell when he was going to go wide or down

:38:20. > :38:20.the middle. We can see straightaway Andy Murray is getting into every

:38:21. > :38:50.single point. I suppose the difference is, when he

:38:51. > :38:54.plays a deep ball like that, unlike when he was playing Del Potro, he

:38:55. > :38:56.knows there won't be a blistering shot down the line coming back at

:38:57. > :40:12.him. Correct. That was a clay-court rally. Pella

:40:13. > :40:17.was brought up on the clay courts of Argentina. You can see Andy Murray

:40:18. > :40:23.has started this match perhaps as we would have expected, where he's

:40:24. > :40:51.just... He grimaces there, some soreness from the Del Potro match.

:40:52. > :40:58.That is how to convert a break point!

:40:59. > :41:07.First break to Great Britain and Andy Murray. No matter how good a

:41:08. > :41:15.player Pella is, and how high his ranking is, it's unlikely he'll have

:41:16. > :41:55.played in such a furnace, noisy furnace, as this in his life before.

:41:56. > :44:05.Maybe it's getting to him just a bit at the moment.

:44:06. > :44:20.That was nearly a blistering shot from the Argentine. If he left it,

:44:21. > :44:26.that was great judgment by Andy. Certainly was. I just noticed, the

:44:27. > :44:32.last two points, the second service from Andy Murray, 105 mph and 108

:44:33. > :44:44.mph. Very quick from him on second service. And consistently, his first

:44:45. > :44:55.serves at the moment, in or out, are in the 130 bracket.

:44:56. > :45:03.He made that look ridiculously easy, that forehand. 4-1 after less than

:45:04. > :45:19.20 minutes. It's conjecture at the moment, but

:45:20. > :45:24.in the media room, where there is a sizeable contingent of Argentine

:45:25. > :45:30.media journalists, written, press, TV, radio, there was a simmering

:45:31. > :45:35.anger about the possibility of Del Potro not playing and the error in

:45:36. > :45:39.judgment made by either him or the team captain yesterday in playing

:45:40. > :45:44.him in a doubles match that ostensibly they probably weren't

:45:45. > :45:49.going to win anyway. It will be interesting to see how that

:45:50. > :45:53.manifests himself -- itself in the afternoon if Del Potro isn't playing

:45:54. > :45:58.in the final match. Daniel Orsanic, the captain, there's a quote of him

:45:59. > :46:03.saying Del Potro was in the doubles because they were trying to kill the

:46:04. > :46:09.tie and win the match. I'm not quite sure whether that's the whole truth.

:46:10. > :46:13.He surely must know with the Murray brothers, no matter who he put on

:46:14. > :46:18.the court, they were certainly strong second favourites to win that

:46:19. > :46:23.match. I think John Lloyd made the point at the start, I wonder whether

:46:24. > :46:29.the team and Del Potro had a discussion on Friday night saying,

:46:30. > :46:34.the chances of me being able to play another five set singles are

:46:35. > :46:39.virtually zero, why don't I play the doubles and give it a shot? However,

:46:40. > :46:43.if that wasn't the case, it is utterly bizarre for him to play the

:46:44. > :47:12.doubles. Obviously for that final match to

:47:13. > :47:13.matter, to take place, even, map -- Murray has to win this game first of

:47:14. > :47:52.all. He's not the biggest, not the

:47:53. > :47:59.tallest. He's not the strongest. But he's a real athlete. He moves well,

:48:00. > :49:02.very compact, good game. One break of serve is all it is at the moment.

:49:03. > :49:10.What a great point that was from Pella. Don't forget, on Friday, he

:49:11. > :49:18.made a fairly slow start, perhaps the same here. You would think these

:49:19. > :49:25.types of rallies probably today given how Murrayism feeling might

:49:26. > :49:32.suit the Argentinian bit better. -- how Murray is feeling. Water liked

:49:33. > :49:36.it. There's a guy on Argentina's bench who looks like Jose Mourinho's

:49:37. > :49:39.brother! Have a look next time. I should say that Pella is a Man

:49:40. > :50:50.United fan. UMPIRE: Great Britain are

:50:51. > :50:56.challenging the call. The ball was called out. As challenges go, I

:50:57. > :51:31.think you'd say this at best is optimistic.

:51:32. > :51:40.That's a great shot! He liked it, too.

:51:41. > :51:51.That was the first cry of emotion so far in the match. This was the shot

:51:52. > :51:57.that won the point, the crosscourt backhand. Andy Murray is using the

:51:58. > :51:58.slice early in the points to try to give himself the opportunity of a

:51:59. > :52:34.higher ball to hit shots like that. Emphatic stuff from the world number

:52:35. > :52:46.two. That's a good 25 minutes work with

:52:47. > :52:51.the first set of balls from Andy Murray. Every player has their own

:52:52. > :52:57.idiosyncrasies their own superstitions you've known and the

:52:58. > :53:03.long time. Has he always wanted the same ball for the next point having

:53:04. > :53:09.won the previous point? Yes, from a very, very young age I can remember

:53:10. > :53:13.playing in junior tournaments, under 12, and there were no ball boys at

:53:14. > :53:17.that time, and how annoyed he might be with three balls in his hand and

:53:18. > :53:25.I've got one and he wants it. Did you say you can't have it. I'd say

:53:26. > :53:34.no! Come down my end and get it. When he was 12, did you know he was

:53:35. > :53:39.special at that stage? Personally I wouldn't have. It was interesting

:53:40. > :53:45.from his development. As a kid, he was always doing something

:53:46. > :53:50.different. We would call him a hacker. Playing rubles all the time.

:53:51. > :53:57.People would say he will get nowhere doing this. -- Moon balls. And he

:53:58. > :54:03.would say look at the scoreboard. He won a lot. If somebody says you

:54:04. > :54:10.can't do something, he's not one for saying OK, I won't do it. He finds a

:54:11. > :54:18.way. Serving to stay in this first set.

:54:19. > :54:30.He also started with a two handed forehand, which is also very

:54:31. > :55:11.interesting. Until what age? Until about 11. Two hands on both sides.

:55:12. > :56:11.You can be the best return art of serve in the world, but that was

:56:12. > :56:14.beautifully placed by Pella. The onus on Andy Murray to see things

:56:15. > :56:19.out after almost half an hour in the first set. The decibels level just

:56:20. > :56:42.ramps up ever so slightly. UMPIRE: Argentina challenging the

:56:43. > :56:50.call on the right-hand line. Ball was called in.

:56:51. > :57:19.A lot of court for Pella to put the ball into. A slightly miss the

:57:20. > :57:21.return giving him an extra angle and Pella will be annoyed with himself.

:57:22. > :58:47.-- mis-hit. Andy said, let's go. How many times

:58:48. > :58:50.in the Del Potro match did his serve come to the rescue? More of the same

:58:51. > :59:07.there. And again the serve did the job.

:59:08. > :59:51.After just over half an hour... If you're going to save a set point,

:59:52. > :59:57.do it in style, and Pella did that. This is the danger with Pella. That

:59:58. > :00:00.forehand, every now and again he unleashes a forehand or backhand

:00:01. > :00:05.that is so much harder than his average rally ball. It's very hard

:00:06. > :00:19.as an opponent to defend against that.

:00:20. > :00:25.Talking about Pella occasionally throwing these crashing bores, can

:00:26. > :00:58.you see it coming? That last one, no. -- crashing balls.

:00:59. > :01:04.There is a rhythm and routine to this. The sound of the ball on the

:01:05. > :01:11.racket strings, the ball into the net. The Murray shout of let's go,

:01:12. > :01:17.that is acute for an eruption of noise in the Emirates Arena, as Andy

:01:18. > :01:27.Murray and Great Britain have a second set point in this opening

:01:28. > :01:32.set. Ace number three. Andy Murray is one third of the way towards

:01:33. > :01:38.setting up an epic decider in this Davis Cup semifinal.

:01:39. > :01:44.STUDIO: Andy Murray showing so much heart, pushing himself through this

:01:45. > :01:47.match, pushing himself through that five match against Juan Martin Del

:01:48. > :01:55.Potro. Looking to level the tie against Argentina. Let's update you

:01:56. > :01:59.in what is happening in the other semifinal. Marin Cilic against

:02:00. > :02:11.Richard Gasquet. Croatia leaving France 2-1. Marin Cilic currently

:02:12. > :02:12.5-1 up against Richard Gasquet. There are many world lay-offs taking

:02:13. > :02:36.place. -- world group play-offs. 2-1 in sets to Switzerland there.

:02:37. > :02:48.Russia winning the doubles match to lead 2-1. Still a long way to go

:02:49. > :03:01.because of the bad weather in Moscow. Germany against Poland. Also

:03:02. > :03:10.in the fifth match. Back we go to the Emirates Arena, once again.

:03:11. > :03:16.COMMENTATOR: We could have played this one outdoors, the weather has

:03:17. > :03:20.been so good in the last few days. No encouragement to people in the

:03:21. > :03:22.south who have had floods. We are indoors, the noise is remarkable.

:03:23. > :04:52.Suddenly it goes quiet. That is masterful course management

:04:53. > :05:00.from Andy Murray. -- court. I might just mention, to put those chickens

:05:01. > :05:07.away. If Great Britain were to win, and Croatian were to win. The Davis

:05:08. > :05:12.Cup final would be in this country. Put that in, in pencil. Certainly an

:05:13. > :06:25.exciting thought. The anticipation, as soon as the

:06:26. > :06:30.hits the previous shot, he is out of shot. Almost taking half a step

:06:31. > :06:38.towards the next ball before it has been hit. Early break point in the

:06:39. > :07:11.second set. We saw a close-up of Kyle Edmund,

:07:12. > :07:16.the fact is standing courtside, with his hands on his hips, can we safely

:07:17. > :07:22.say Dan Evans has been nominated for the final match? That is a definite.

:07:23. > :07:27.Sitting there after the first set, never sitting out, when you think

:07:28. > :07:31.you are going to play. Definitely decision made. Dan Evans will play

:07:32. > :07:48.the final match. Juan Martin Del Potro not only

:07:49. > :08:54.Argentinian bench, we suspect he will not be playing. -- not on.

:08:55. > :10:57.Great serve, not just the pace, moving away the whole time.

:10:58. > :11:05.Andy Murray putting his foot on the accelerator. One set and one break

:11:06. > :11:12.after 45 minutes. If Pella is not careful, could run away with it.

:11:13. > :11:18.Another issue second serve, 110 mph. I wonder whether that is tactical

:11:19. > :11:23.because of Pella's return. All Andy Murray says he wants some short of

:11:24. > :11:45.points. Never seen him hit second serves so great.

:11:46. > :12:06.Fainted to go down the line, then of the last name. -- he feinted to go

:12:07. > :12:10.Dandelion, then at the last moment. Might have just drifted wide. For

:12:11. > :12:18.all the exhortation is from Stirling University. People power. Willing it

:12:19. > :12:24.in in the last moment. Judy Murray taking up a different

:12:25. > :13:48.position on today. Not the cleanest of strikes. Leaving

:13:49. > :13:55.Pella in an almighty mess of the net. Such a clever shot, someone who

:13:56. > :14:01.can hit such a flat backhand. Dipping it to the feet. Never going

:14:02. > :14:23.to be a winner. But what are you going to do with it?

:14:24. > :14:34.Leading directly to the double fault. Another great opportunity for

:14:35. > :14:42.Andy Murray. The crowd exhorting him to keep going at this pace. Keep the

:14:43. > :15:53.momentum going. Keep the tie edging towards 2-2.

:15:54. > :16:42.Second opportunity for the break, and a 3-0 lead.

:16:43. > :16:50.A couple of unusual misses on Last two break points. Backhand and

:16:51. > :16:55.forehand. On Friday, much more animated reaction. Very careful to

:16:56. > :17:32.date with his energy consumption. Great tennis from both players. As

:17:33. > :17:37.the rally reached its conclusion, Murray moved one way. Final shot of

:17:38. > :17:42.the point was tremendous. Getting his outside leg, such strength, to

:17:43. > :18:17.deflect about. -- deflected that. Three opportunities to break. Errors

:18:18. > :18:21.on all three points. Was that a forced error, or unforced error?

:18:22. > :18:23.Probably forced, a first serve. Murray will be thinking he should

:18:24. > :18:58.have made that. Pella showing guts, he's still in

:18:59. > :19:46.there. A fit of anger in that one. Should

:19:47. > :19:51.have won that game five minutes ago. Forehand providing the winner. The

:19:52. > :20:00.backhand, the last five minutes or so doing a lot of damage.

:20:01. > :20:20.Save five break points in this game. At 3-0 down, two breaks of serve,

:20:21. > :21:42.that is two sets down. Nobody knows that, more than he does.

:21:43. > :21:50.You would have put your house on him winning that one. So far out of

:21:51. > :22:21.court, getting back into position, then another forehand error.

:22:22. > :22:31.Pella thinking, am I still serving? He hears, chance to win this game.

:22:32. > :23:03.-- here he is. Well played, well fought. Hanging

:23:04. > :23:12.in, by Guido Pella, there. Staring at 2-0 sets down. Still in it. Andy

:23:13. > :23:19.will not be happy about that. How hard you have to work to hold your

:23:20. > :23:27.serve. Seriously tough game, well done Guido Pella. In the context of

:23:28. > :23:33.the match, you are thinking how much is that taken out of him. I wonder

:23:34. > :23:39.what he's saying to his captain, in terms of what he has to do going

:23:40. > :23:43.forward. As good a player as he is. Murray has a bit too much game.

:23:44. > :23:51.Another gear, looks comfortable in the points. Picking his moments when

:23:52. > :23:58.to be aggressive. Is there an element of Andy, hurry, slowly.

:23:59. > :24:02.Don't try to rush from the get the game out of the way, it will pan out

:24:03. > :24:11.in a natural way, with the likely scenario he will win it. Don't try

:24:12. > :24:14.to four scenarios. That is a good description of what he is doing. In

:24:15. > :24:24.terms of managing in between the points. Weigh less animated than

:24:25. > :24:30.Friday. Focusing his intensity, having won the first set, if he can

:24:31. > :24:38.squeeze the opponent in the next 15-20 minutes, that will break the

:24:39. > :24:46.back of the match. Pella wriggling out of that squeeze, just. He will

:24:47. > :27:39.want to win this service came pretty emphatically.

:27:40. > :27:46.You cannot fault him for effort. Good shot from Pella, tempting

:27:47. > :27:52.Murrayfield. Using every ounce of his athleticism. Hardly surprising,

:27:53. > :28:02.not hard to cheer for somebody trying this much.

:28:03. > :28:15.Case number five from Andy Murray. Squandered a few chances in the last

:28:16. > :28:20.game, not going to do it there. -- ace. Another factor why Andy Murray,

:28:21. > :28:27.especially in Scotland, the UK, the world, is revered the way he is. Not

:28:28. > :28:31.just his brilliance, tennis genius, his commitment and enthusiasm for

:28:32. > :28:36.playing the game is extraordinary. If you have not seen the penultimate

:28:37. > :28:39.point of his match against Del Potro on Friday, it is amazing. Really is.

:28:40. > :28:52.Look at it on the Internet. After five hours, six minutes,

:28:53. > :28:59.running around on Friday like it was the second point of the match. You

:29:00. > :29:21.could hear his shoes screeching like car tyres.

:29:22. > :29:25.Argentina challenges the call on the left baseline. The ball was called

:29:26. > :29:32.in. The ball was out. And quite away,

:29:33. > :30:37.two. That is three or four times Pella

:30:38. > :30:44.has come in the Andy Murray, just not enough on that. He hasn't had

:30:45. > :30:45.much success. Murray of course, some of the best passing shots in the

:30:46. > :31:04.game. Neil Smith -- Leon Smith asks, how

:31:05. > :31:10.was it possible for someone to hit the ball like that? The timing and

:31:11. > :31:11.the angle, look at the look of Pella, he is astounded that is even

:31:12. > :31:59.possible. His counterpunch is the absolute

:32:00. > :32:04.best. Gets behind the ball, look how quickly he gets to that forehand, it

:32:05. > :32:23.is almost unplayable. Well, it is unplayable.

:32:24. > :32:30.He may have squandered six break opportunities in the last Pella

:32:31. > :32:37.service game but one was enough here. Murray in complete control. A

:32:38. > :32:42.set and two breaks now. Ever anxious to provide a public service on the

:32:43. > :32:46.BBC, you don't need to look on you cheap or anything else because we

:32:47. > :32:51.have dug out the penultimate match on Friday against Del Potro, to set

:32:52. > :32:56.the scene. Five hours on court already. This is two points from the

:32:57. > :32:58.end of the match and look at this in terms of commitment and energy and

:32:59. > :33:14.never say die attitude. In the end, it was all too much.

:33:15. > :33:19.Look at the reaction from the crowd. A standing ovation for Andy Murray

:33:20. > :33:24.because they could see the effort he was putting in, even though at that

:33:25. > :33:29.point, it was match point. Fantastic. Amazing and you were

:33:30. > :33:33.saying, that is why even if people have their favourite players and

:33:34. > :33:37.favourite styles that they prefer to watch, even if he is not your

:33:38. > :33:43.favourite style, you can respect and appreciate. Everyone can, with that

:33:44. > :33:49.type of effort. That was into the six hour of the match, to find that

:33:50. > :33:52.type of energy. Energy in your legs to do that, incredible. And energy

:33:53. > :33:59.in your mind. The first scent of the ice bar is in

:34:00. > :35:22.Murray's nostrils. Pella is taking a lot of blows to

:35:23. > :35:29.the solar plexus at the moment and he is kind of on the ropes. Thinking

:35:30. > :35:35.slightly ahead, it'll be interesting to see how quickly Murray appears on

:35:36. > :35:39.the GB bench for the deciding round, if it gets there. I have a feeling

:35:40. > :35:40.he will be there almost from the start and right up behind Leon

:35:41. > :36:56.Smith. You made the point about how much

:36:57. > :37:02.that holding that serve would take out of Pella and it seems to have

:37:03. > :37:06.taken quite a bit. It looks like his resistance is fading but I think it

:37:07. > :38:10.is more as well mentally, he has run out of options a bit.

:38:11. > :38:18.Even Andy Murray at full tilt couldn't get to that one, a very

:38:19. > :38:22.clean strike. Pella has got himself back to level pegging in this game

:38:23. > :38:53.and Andy Murray still is two points away from the two sets lead.

:38:54. > :39:00.Talking to Leon Smith before this time began, he was saying he is a

:39:01. > :39:04.huge admirer of Pella because of his work ethic and commitment and he

:39:05. > :39:08.never throw the towel in and he is certainly not doing that here, even

:39:09. > :39:19.if he is running out of options as Jamie said.

:39:20. > :39:32.UMPIRE: Balls change, please. Pella is still in the second set, albeit

:39:33. > :39:37.hanging on by his fingernails. You are the Argentine Davis Cup captain

:39:38. > :39:43.what are you saying to him now? That is a really tough question. Sitting

:39:44. > :39:47.there and admiring the tennis Andy Murray is playing. Judging by how

:39:48. > :39:53.much Pella is talking, I think what the captain has said, what do you

:39:54. > :39:59.think? What can you do to change anything? I think he is struggling.

:40:00. > :40:08.I think all he can do, looking at the type of player Pella is, he goes

:40:09. > :40:12.back to his strengths which literally is fighting for every

:40:13. > :40:20.ball, not making any errors, being absolutely watertight and seeing if

:40:21. > :40:25.you can somehow stay level on the score board and maybe everybody can

:40:26. > :40:29.see, even now, how well Andy Murray is playing. I don't think I have

:40:30. > :40:39.ever seen him look this tired, it is obvious he is putting his all into

:40:40. > :40:43.the points. Interesting, in terms of where Andy Murray is placing his

:40:44. > :40:52.serves. Two thirds and more going down the middle.

:40:53. > :41:00.In this instance, going to the Pella forehand, like that. He is going to

:41:01. > :41:11.the Pella forehand and to the backhand on the ad court.

:41:12. > :42:45.Just now and again, he does that. Seven aces from Andy Murray today.

:42:46. > :42:55.Here we go, first chance for Andy Murray to take the two set lead.

:42:56. > :44:33.And put us within touching distance of a Davis Cup decider in Glasgow.

:44:34. > :44:47.The job is almost done. Andy Murray two sets to the good. SUE BARKER:

:44:48. > :44:52.Andy at his magnificent best, two sets up now. Let's show you what is

:44:53. > :44:59.happening in Croatia. I'm sure they are equally noisy scenes there.

:45:00. > :45:15.Marin Cilic just now on set away from sealing a place in the final.

:45:16. > :45:22.Switzerland have won their match against Uzbekistan.

:45:23. > :45:29.That's what has been happening elsewhere but here now, Andy Murray

:45:30. > :45:33.just one set away from victory to level the tie against Argentina.

:45:34. > :45:38.COMMENTATOR: Both players have left the arena. We keep saying Andy

:45:39. > :45:45.Murray will be taking a breather after this but he has a big charity

:45:46. > :45:52.night at a hotel in Glasgow. I think Gael Monfils is here playing

:45:53. > :45:57.exhibition matches, Tim Henman and various other luminaries, it raises

:45:58. > :46:01.a lot of money for the charities. It will be interesting to see, we are

:46:02. > :46:06.getting ahead of ourselves but we have a couple of moments to have a

:46:07. > :46:10.chat with Jamie. If Great Britain were to extricate themselves from

:46:11. > :46:13.this two love deficit and win this tie, and it looks like Croatia will

:46:14. > :46:17.make it through, it will be interesting to see what the options

:46:18. > :46:22.are for a venue for the final. The nature of the Davis Cup, one of its

:46:23. > :46:29.flaws in many ways, you know when the weekends but you don't know who

:46:30. > :46:34.you will play or if it will home or away. Most venues of a certain size

:46:35. > :46:40.are already booked, especially getting towards Christmas. Christmas

:46:41. > :46:45.productions, rock concerts, whatever. It is conceivable they

:46:46. > :46:48.might be coming back here. That is the key point because the Davis Cup

:46:49. > :46:52.final is a massive event. You are looking at some of the biggest

:46:53. > :46:57.arenas around the UK. Somewhere like the O2, the World Tour Finals the

:46:58. > :47:01.weekend before, that would be amazing to keep it there but the O2

:47:02. > :47:08.is booked I don't know how many months in advance. Everybody always

:47:09. > :47:12.talks about quite rightly, these types of occasions, they are so

:47:13. > :47:17.amazing and you want to spread it about the country, around the UK if

:47:18. > :47:20.you can. In terms of an actual atmosphere for a Davis Cup final,

:47:21. > :47:26.this place is as good as it gets. You can't argue that. All sorts of

:47:27. > :47:30.regulations about what size the stadium has to be and how many seats

:47:31. > :47:34.there has to be. Are you going to wear one of those jackets at your

:47:35. > :47:44.wedding next week? I think I will stick to the more traditional kilt!

:47:45. > :47:50.Looking forward to it? Very excited. All sorted? My better half has been

:47:51. > :47:55.taking care of it all. Lucky she has allowed me to come here, this is the

:47:56. > :48:02.weekend before! This is your stag weekend! LAUGHTER

:48:03. > :48:05.I suppose all you can say is, keep going, keep fighting, you never

:48:06. > :48:14.know, a window of opportunity might arise. It is worth repeating at

:48:15. > :48:19.2:30pm on a Sunday afternoon, maybe you have just gone out for lunch,

:48:20. > :48:24.and are sitting down in front of the telly to watch the tennis, it does

:48:25. > :48:29.look and they have got up until an hour before the match begins, that

:48:30. > :48:35.might be kind of now, they might have had to declare pretty soon do

:48:36. > :48:39.the protagonists are going to be. There is a ten minute warning, I

:48:40. > :48:47.gather so both captains have ten minutes to announce.

:48:48. > :49:00.That is well played by Pella at the start of this third set. Final

:49:01. > :49:04.match, only have two name the players ten minutes before they walk

:49:05. > :49:09.on court says still ample time to decide whether Juan Martin Del Potro

:49:10. > :49:16.will give it a go in the deciding singles.

:49:17. > :49:20.That certainly makes it all very exciting. The whole point is you

:49:21. > :49:47.wait to see the outcome. Andy Murray plays long from all over

:49:48. > :49:55.the place and his touch is staggering. One of the best lobster

:49:56. > :50:00.I think you have ever seen in tennis. He hit one on Friday, set

:50:01. > :50:05.point down in the third set against Del Potro which was unbelievable.

:50:06. > :50:43.And of course the lob to win the Davis Cup.

:50:44. > :50:53.You asked me a few games ago whether you were able to read when the big

:50:54. > :50:57.shot was coming. Well, Pella is not even in the short, he had absolutely

:50:58. > :51:29.no idea that Murray was going to hit that backhand down the line.

:51:30. > :52:46.Not sure Murray saw that one coming. Big hit from the Argentine.

:52:47. > :53:14.First break opportunity for Andy Murray in this third set.

:53:15. > :53:25.UMPIRE: Mr Murray is challenging the call made on the left-hand side. The

:53:26. > :53:34.ball is called out. Andy Murray thinks that was out.

:53:35. > :53:42.That must be policed in of all tennis balls in the history of the

:53:43. > :53:54.game. Pella lives to fight another day in this opening game.

:53:55. > :54:06.It is hard to imagine tennis nowadays without Hawk-Eye. It has

:54:07. > :54:10.been an a fantastic invention. Provided the players haven't run out

:54:11. > :54:31.of challenges, you can get the big call on the big points.

:54:32. > :54:39.You would have put some money on that... I think he was just berating

:54:40. > :54:50.himself as well, it was perfectly set up for the lob. Gutsy. Well done

:54:51. > :54:55.Pella for holding on. You never know in this set, we were saying what can

:54:56. > :55:01.he do, can he stay ahead? Can he stay with Murray for 15-20 minutes?

:55:02. > :55:10.He has given himself a chance. That might effectively be much point.

:55:11. > :55:15.Correct. As it is, as those fanatical... And they have been

:55:16. > :55:20.great sports, Argentine fans, as they know, one slack game of Andy

:55:21. > :55:23.Murray, one drop of a serve and then suddenly, this on for another hour

:55:24. > :55:34.and a half rather than 20 minutes so.

:55:35. > :55:41.I wonder if many of those hands have travelled far. Have you been to

:55:42. > :56:05.Buenos Aires? Great place. The only time I have been, I didn't

:56:06. > :56:12.see much of it, it was the last time we played Argentina 2008. It was

:56:13. > :56:23.held in Buenos Aires. I saw a lot of the hotel and the tennis court!

:56:24. > :56:32.You played the singles? Correct. Jamie Murray was there with his

:56:33. > :56:33.rather long and curly hairstyle, there are some great pictures of

:56:34. > :57:15.that. That was probably going in but it

:57:16. > :57:23.hit one of the stanchions in the roof.

:57:24. > :57:37.That is something, as we said, one moment like that, one momentary drop

:57:38. > :57:40.in concentration, Pella has a sniff of possibly breaking Andy Murray's

:57:41. > :58:28.serve for the first time in this match.

:58:29. > :58:53.That Smith has now receded into the distance. -- that sniff.

:58:54. > :00:07.Andy Murray down on his haunches. Favouring his right Sy, I think you

:00:08. > :00:10.might have pulled something? He must be sore and stiff. From all the

:00:11. > :00:29.exertions. It was almost like, please get me

:00:30. > :00:37.out of here, I've got to get off this court and win this match. I've

:00:38. > :01:02.been going nonstop since Italy. Five months ago.

:01:03. > :01:12.This is did not move for that one told. Don't want to be alarmist, but

:01:13. > :01:34.one or two raised eyebrows. Definitely see the train coming on

:01:35. > :01:44.here. -- trainer. Towards the end of the second set, the Argentine

:01:45. > :01:50.captain was on there, as long as you are on the court, anything can

:01:51. > :01:55.happen. You never know, when your body is stiff and tired, you are

:01:56. > :02:08.susceptible to pulling muscles. I think I heard Andy mouthing it

:02:09. > :02:12.thinks he pulled a muscle. This is a twist in the tail, we were not

:02:13. > :02:18.anticipating. In cruise control for much of the match. Not a question of

:02:19. > :02:22.if he was going to win, but when he was going to bring. All the

:02:23. > :02:31.speculation, we can say Daniel Evans will definitively play the fifth

:02:32. > :02:39.match. Kyle Edmund still courtside. Discussing which of the Argentine 's

:02:40. > :02:43.Dan Evans will be playing. Still a match to be won before that game

:02:44. > :02:51.counts. Andy Murray has to get through this somehow. He will go off

:02:52. > :02:58.the court for some treatment. He gets how long? Three minute

:02:59. > :03:10.treatment period. From the time he goes off, the stopwatch will start.

:03:11. > :03:13.You mentioned, you don't think you have ever seen him so tired on a

:03:14. > :03:22.tennis court. Everything else that has gone on with their success on

:03:23. > :03:29.the court? Looking back to when he won the Davis Cup last year, even

:03:30. > :03:35.before that, there were some epic Davis Cup ties last year. Right

:03:36. > :03:46.after Wimbledon, a big ask. Right into this year, he has made grand

:03:47. > :03:52.finals. Finals in Paris. Since Paris, he won in Rome. Roland

:03:53. > :03:58.Garros, then Queen's. Wimbledon. Winning the Olympics. Cincinnati,

:03:59. > :04:03.the final. US Open. Towards the end of the US Open, you could tell. Not

:04:04. > :04:08.just physical, it is the mental side, getting to the latter stages

:04:09. > :04:13.of every single tournament. All the travel on top of that. All those

:04:14. > :04:19.events in the summer months. Wherever the tournament is.

:04:20. > :04:28.It is a combination of a lot of things. And of course becoming a

:04:29. > :04:37.dad. That does change things. In terms of your lifestyle at home, the

:04:38. > :04:43.amount of sleep you get. Some statistics, Murray can of where he

:04:44. > :04:47.is hitting his returns. One of the things about the Murray return, on

:04:48. > :04:53.first serves, starting quite behind the baseline, taking a big lunging.

:04:54. > :05:01.Second service, well inside the baseline. Look at the difference.

:05:02. > :05:07.One metre inside the baseline. Pella way behind, a couple of metres

:05:08. > :05:13.behind, as an opponent, what that must feel like. Pella must feel like

:05:14. > :05:19.Murray is coming on to him the whole time. Andy Murray must think, OK I

:05:20. > :05:28.have time to build myself into the point. Contrast in styles. The

:05:29. > :05:32.conversation they are having, a lot different to the one they were

:05:33. > :05:40.having 15 minutes or so ago. If you are playing against somebody, who

:05:41. > :05:50.potentially has a strain on the top of their thigh, it is the thing to

:05:51. > :05:55.do, drop shots, moving around the court. Potentially one of the

:05:56. > :06:00.greatest of all time you are playing. Not someone at a club

:06:01. > :06:02.match. If your opponent is impaired, you can manoeuvre the game to impact

:06:03. > :06:16.on that. Is he not late with that

:06:17. > :06:26.announcement? I don't think he has gone to Waitrose. How do you in that

:06:27. > :06:33.to your advantage? The first thing, you get an inkling, a change in

:06:34. > :06:35.somebody? Behaviour. It is a good point, you have to consider the

:06:36. > :06:42.level of tennis these guys are playing. You get a feel, you

:06:43. > :06:49.probably would change your game, initially, particularly, in terms of

:06:50. > :06:55.obvious stuff. Like the drop shots. Which would be a drastic change in

:06:56. > :07:00.tactics, from what he's doing. That would come in if there was a

:07:01. > :07:08.genuinely bad injury. Something causing someone a bit of a problem,

:07:09. > :07:13.five, 10% down. Pella, his demeanour, game style on the court,

:07:14. > :07:20.perfect to deal with that. Somebody he will keep the pressure on, not

:07:21. > :07:24.make any mistakes. He will be alert enough, Izzy favouring beforehand,

:07:25. > :07:29.the backhand? He will keep his cool, quite well. We have seen some

:07:30. > :07:34.dramatic matches in the past, somebody struggling, and in person

:07:35. > :07:40.at the other end cannot hit the ball into the court. Famous match Andy

:07:41. > :07:47.Murray was involved in, three, four years ago. Extraordinary, the injury

:07:48. > :07:56.Murray had seemed to paralyse his opponent. The US Open semifinal,

:07:57. > :08:00.Gael Monfils and Djokovic. No injury, he realised that the start,

:08:01. > :08:03.I am not going to play normally against this guy, getting killed.

:08:04. > :08:09.Literally looked like was not trying. He was completely saying,

:08:10. > :08:15.here you go, have something completely different. It was a mini

:08:16. > :08:21.meltdown from Djokovic. Riveting stuff. Great tournament this year.

:08:22. > :08:26.The US Open. If you are a fan of Argentina, some of the best strips

:08:27. > :08:31.in the world. The football, the rugby. The combination of those

:08:32. > :08:46.colours. One of the great anthems. Argentina playing

:08:47. > :08:59.Australia in De Rugby Championship, at Twickenham. Had a chat with one

:09:00. > :09:08.of the most stage people in the game, looking forward to that one.

:09:09. > :09:14.Leon Smith calm, but I suspect inside, a little bit concerned at

:09:15. > :09:18.the moment. They will be thinking, if he has a pulled muscle, something

:09:19. > :09:25.that will hamper him, they will be the ones thinking tactically. What

:09:26. > :09:37.should we be advising him to be doing, something dramatic? Shorten

:09:38. > :09:43.the points. Not his natural style. Not going to play in 18 - 25 shot

:09:44. > :09:49.rally from the baseline with a serious strain? Is this court

:09:50. > :09:55.suitable for serve and volley? Not as quick as everybody thought before

:09:56. > :10:00.the match started. You don't have five-hour matches on a fast court.

:10:01. > :10:03.Andy Murray making a point, jogging back. I am all right, don't worry

:10:04. > :11:36.about me. Interesting to see. You could see Pella thinking, I have

:11:37. > :11:45.two making clay. Have to get the ball on the court.

:11:46. > :12:25.He is walking pretty stiffly between the points. Once the ball is in

:12:26. > :13:05.play, OK for the moment. A couple of times in this game, one

:13:06. > :13:08.to the forehand, one to the backhand, Pella managing tough

:13:09. > :13:26.angle. Murray looking slightly hesitant.

:13:27. > :13:41.What a backhand from Andy Murray, that was. All about willpower, now.

:13:42. > :13:46.You are right, what a shot. Every point he has won, in this game, you

:13:47. > :13:56.have heard a big shout, come on. Willpower.

:13:57. > :15:31.Again Digi backhand, crosscourt. Putting Pella and do all sorts of

:15:32. > :16:11.pressure. -- again Digi backhand. What he is asking, a lady with a

:16:12. > :16:47.Scotland flag not directly into Andy Murray's sight.

:16:48. > :17:00.Great shot. Terrifc rally. Pella is in this. Two break points, for

:17:01. > :17:12.Argentina. Getting carried away, sorry. He is

:17:13. > :17:53.serving. It is so tense. This does have a different feel from

:17:54. > :17:59.15 minutes ago, the end of the second set. Marie going off the

:18:00. > :18:04.court, Pella looks like he does have belief, at least to get a set on the

:18:05. > :18:47.board. Definite anxieties on the face of the British bench.

:18:48. > :18:56.Two loose shots in a row. Just at the time when he does not need it,

:18:57. > :19:42.as well. Argentina challenging the call, on

:19:43. > :19:51.the right far sideline. Ball was called out. This is very, very

:19:52. > :20:04.close. What would he not give for this to be out. It was a break of

:20:05. > :20:14.serve in the end. Pella will be absolutely furious, thinking here we

:20:15. > :20:21.go, I have a shot. Really four errors in a row. Including the last

:20:22. > :20:27.one. That has opened the door for Andy Murray. He will not be thinking

:20:28. > :20:33.of holding serve three times. That is all he has to do.

:20:34. > :20:45.He knew that was out. He had a good old look. Come on.

:20:46. > :20:57.Not much the Argentinian captain can say. You could see, the force he was

:20:58. > :21:02.hitting his hand on the racket. All he had to do was keep the ball in

:21:03. > :21:03.play as long as humanly possible. He gave that came to Andy Murray on a

:21:04. > :21:54.plate. -- game. Moving OK? Obviously there is a bit

:21:55. > :21:59.of soreness, something. Looks like it has focus the mind back onto the

:22:00. > :23:12.court. Hardly missing a ball since he came back on court.

:23:13. > :23:21.We might show you that later. What caused the amusement in the crown.

:23:22. > :23:44.-- crowd. Just what he wanted. Such a good

:23:45. > :23:49.service came from Andy Murray. These top players, once they get a lead,

:23:50. > :23:55.so good at turning the screw. You saw Pella and his reaction of the

:23:56. > :25:17.change of ends. He knew. Great Britain challenging the call

:25:18. > :25:37.on the right baseline. Ball was called out.

:25:38. > :26:06.Great Britain have two challenges remaining.

:26:07. > :27:05.Andy Murray pulled up again here. On one leg, hitting a shot like that.

:27:06. > :27:11.In his mind, he must be thinking, just another five minutes, that is

:27:12. > :27:21.all I have to play, then I have a few weeks break.

:27:22. > :28:11.Pella wants to keep him out the as long as is humanly possible.

:28:12. > :28:21.The wave their ball just clicked away. You heard Jamie gasping at the

:28:22. > :28:29.backhand. It was brilliant. Variety of shots. The variety of pace and

:28:30. > :28:39.angle. The backhand was huge. Listen to the crowd.

:28:40. > :28:49.How much top-spin was there on that final ball?

:28:50. > :29:20.Another big serve down the middle, from the Argentinian.

:29:21. > :29:49.That is the first one of those he has missed for a while.

:29:50. > :30:01.That is a great shot. From a huge return by Andy Murray.

:30:02. > :30:11.That was like a batsmen-macro hitting a ball bold-macro at 90 mph,

:30:12. > :30:18.putting his bat in the way, shooting towards the boundary. Andy still 4-3

:30:19. > :30:25.to the good. Further concerns about his thigh. Explaining the rules

:30:26. > :30:32.about any further medical attention he can get. He can get two further

:30:33. > :30:39.treatments at the change of ends, but in the allocated time, one and a

:30:40. > :30:47.half minutes. Looking at the angle Pella got, you can see Murray, in

:30:48. > :30:53.those last two games, it will help him, being more aggressive. He knows

:30:54. > :30:59.he does not want to be defending, as he usually would be able to do. He

:31:00. > :31:04.wants to be on the front foot. That will help in his service games. As

:31:05. > :31:07.you were mentioning earlier, five more minutes. Get over the line. The

:31:08. > :31:19.crowd will help him. Five more minutes, maybe ten, eight

:31:20. > :31:21.more points. But you have to play each point on its merits, one point

:31:22. > :31:53.at a time. I think this passing shot from Pella

:31:54. > :32:00.might have been going long but fantastic touch from Murray. The

:32:01. > :32:11.kind of folly his brother was playing yesterday. -- volley. Big

:32:12. > :32:51.serve, big pull away. Ticking things off one by one.

:32:52. > :32:59.I saw one of those T-shirts today, one of those keep calm T-shirts. It

:33:00. > :33:01.just said, keep calm and marvel at Murray. Sometimes, that is all you

:33:02. > :33:38.can do. The finishing line is insight. And

:33:39. > :33:48.somewhere, in the corridors of this Emirates Arena, Dan Evans and we

:33:49. > :33:51.assume, Leonardo Mayer, are warming up for what will decide this

:33:52. > :34:30.extraordinary Davis Cup semifinal. When you have a bad leg, you will

:34:31. > :34:38.take those all day. Look how far inside the baseline. Instead thigh

:34:39. > :35:34.strain, I think he is now even a further metre inside.

:35:35. > :36:18.CHUCKLES Almost but not quite.

:36:19. > :36:30.Guido Pella must feel there are 8008 500 -- 8500 people at the other end

:36:31. > :36:32.of the court. And just over two hours, Andy Murray stands on the

:36:33. > :36:41.point of victory. Darn it. Andy Murray finds strength.

:36:42. > :37:20.-- he has done it. British hero, Scottish hero, just a

:37:21. > :37:33.hero. No matter what the circumstances.

:37:34. > :37:41.A big round of applause for Guido Pella. I'm sure we will hear from

:37:42. > :37:47.Andy in a moment. The way the dynamic of this tie has shifted,

:37:48. > :37:57.assuming as we are, that Leonardo Mayer is going to play Dan Evans in

:37:58. > :38:06.the fifth, from 2-0 down the other night. Despair shrouded the Great

:38:07. > :38:10.Britain team. If you are the defending champions, you want to

:38:11. > :38:13.hold onto your trophy. Things went very much against Great Britain but

:38:14. > :38:15.thanks largely to the effort of this man, the most of comebacks is on

:38:16. > :38:30.course. Well played, Andy, nothing short of

:38:31. > :38:32.an heroic performance. How does it feel to have levelled the tie for

:38:33. > :38:47.GB? It is obviously great. CHEERING We were in a lot of trouble a few

:38:48. > :38:50.days ago but this is the best we could have hoped for, obviously

:38:51. > :38:55.after Friday and Aadan has a chance to go out there and tried to go and

:38:56. > :39:03.get the job done. Tell us what is the injury? How is the leg? I don't

:39:04. > :39:08.know exactly, I have a lot of sharp pains in my right quad so I will

:39:09. > :39:14.have to see what is up. I will get some treatment with the physio. I

:39:15. > :39:19.will see what it is. I need a break, I've played so much tennis and my

:39:20. > :39:24.body needs to rest. I needed now. You have had such a busy summer,

:39:25. > :39:29.very successful, incredibly physical here, how much were you able to feed

:39:30. > :39:36.off the energy of the home crowd? CHEERING

:39:37. > :39:45.it makes a huge difference all of us. We have had some great moments

:39:46. > :39:50.here in Glasgow, all the players have played really good tennis. We

:39:51. > :39:57.need all your support for the next one and try to go for it. Finally,

:39:58. > :40:01.there has been a lot of secrecy over the players for the last match. You

:40:02. > :40:10.mention Dan Evans, what are your thoughts going into the deciding on?

:40:11. > :40:13.Del Potro is a great player. Dan is difficult to play against, he has

:40:14. > :40:17.proven that over the last few months. He almost beat Stan Wawrinka

:40:18. > :40:22.and if he plays at that level, he has got a chance. It will be a good

:40:23. > :40:30.one, go and get some treatment. Well done, Andy Murray. SUE BARKER: Andy

:40:31. > :40:34.Murray is such a warrior, he was limping towards the end but still

:40:35. > :40:38.managed to lift his game and the spirits of the crowds and they give

:40:39. > :40:43.him a standing ovation. That was so well-deserved. He gives everything

:40:44. > :40:48.on the court and a well-deserved rest awaits for Andy Murray. I'm

:40:49. > :40:52.sure he will be courtside very soon and as he mentioned, it will be Dan

:40:53. > :40:56.Evans taking the fifth and final match for Great Britain. He seems to

:40:57. > :41:00.think it will be Juan Martin Del Potro but as we have been talking

:41:01. > :41:04.throughout the afternoon, there is still some doubt over that, whether

:41:05. > :41:06.it may be Leonardo Mayer because he left the bench early on. We will

:41:07. > :41:33.know in about ten minutes. Marin Cilic has just served out

:41:34. > :41:36.against Richard Gasquet. Croatia through to the final. If Great

:41:37. > :41:44.Britain do win, it will be a home tie for them. Croatia defeating

:41:45. > :41:48.France. All the talk is about this one. We want to talk about who will

:41:49. > :41:52.play the next match but first, let's pay tribute to Andy Murray. I'm not

:41:53. > :41:59.sure he could have lasted much longer. He had to win quickly today.

:42:00. > :42:03.You could see that. The quad strain got worse as the match went on and

:42:04. > :42:06.if it had gone on for another hour, who knows what would have happened

:42:07. > :42:13.so he did very well to get it over with quickly. That injury was a real

:42:14. > :42:17.scare. Everything was going very smoothly and suddenly, in the first

:42:18. > :42:21.set, it was just a bit more than soreness. I don't know if it was a

:42:22. > :42:27.bit of... It seems like you might have pulled a muscle. After he got

:42:28. > :42:32.the treatment, on his service games, he was playing more aggressively and

:42:33. > :42:39.I think it helped him. He did have the changes tactics. He went all the

:42:40. > :42:43.big shots and they came off. Guido Pella had his chances in the four

:42:44. > :42:48.errors, three of them unforced errors and he was serving very well.

:42:49. > :42:53.It was the first answered the ball was played that he thought maybe I

:42:54. > :42:58.can this match. He saw his opponent was injured and thought, I don't

:42:59. > :43:04.want to miss this and any sort of got to a conservative -- he's got

:43:05. > :43:12.too conservative. Murray was exceptional.

:43:13. > :43:19.This was a long rally where Pella could not hurt him. That was the

:43:20. > :43:26.problem for him. You could see early on that he was trying everything,

:43:27. > :43:31.Pella. He would sometimes be aggressive and accelerate but how do

:43:32. > :43:38.you find your way through? Unless you have a big shot like Del Potro,

:43:39. > :43:43.and a big serve, how do you break through those defences? Andy Murray

:43:44. > :43:46.was magnificent today. You felt like this one was when when he was

:43:47. > :43:51.setting up break point and such strength from Andy Murray. Such a

:43:52. > :43:55.physical player on court. I was interested to see how he would start

:43:56. > :43:59.the match, whether he would come out aggressively or do what he normally

:44:00. > :44:05.does and play people... He plays himself into the match and he

:44:06. > :44:11.patiently picks his time. Today, there was a mix. That shot, how he

:44:12. > :44:16.gets behind the ball, it is one of the main reasons he is good against

:44:17. > :44:21.left-handers. We talked about his speed around the court and physical

:44:22. > :44:26.strength which has improved so much over the last five years. He is

:44:27. > :44:31.lightning. You can never put the ball away against him. This is a

:44:32. > :44:36.great point. Then he comes in and does that. It is such a hard shot. A

:44:37. > :44:43.very hard shot and Pella tried everything. Pella is thinking, I've

:44:44. > :44:46.got to work harder but then he comes back at you and comes in, what can

:44:47. > :44:56.you do against that? We talked about the summer and how

:44:57. > :45:01.exhausted Murray is but he can still find that extra gear. You can tell

:45:02. > :45:06.but he knew this was his last big effort. I could see he was spending

:45:07. > :45:11.weigh less energy and between the points in that match. He knew he

:45:12. > :45:16.wasn't up against Del Potro, one of the big guys but all his focus was

:45:17. > :45:20.directed, he wasn't wasting energy. In a funny sort of way, hopefully

:45:21. > :45:24.the injury isn't too bad and doesn't stop him doing what he needs to do

:45:25. > :45:31.but I thought it focused his mind and help to finish the match off

:45:32. > :45:35.more quick than it would have done. He was right in Pella's face towards

:45:36. > :45:41.the end when he had that injury, he imposed himself on the match even

:45:42. > :45:44.more after the injury. The great players have this presence on court

:45:45. > :45:51.and Pella was thinking, what do I do? He saw Murray looking at him,

:45:52. > :45:53.you have to hit way too many balls to beat me, it isn't going to

:45:54. > :46:03.happen. Pella tried everything, you have to

:46:04. > :46:07.give him credit but this type of tennis is relentless. Murray taking

:46:08. > :46:11.charge of these rallies and Pella is doing all the running. Pella

:46:12. > :46:17.couldn't get into the rally to start moving Murray around. Murray was

:46:18. > :46:19.serving his second serve and his returns were big. He didn't let

:46:20. > :46:30.Pella into the round. I've never seen him serve that

:46:31. > :46:39.quickly in second serves. Consistently over 100 mph. Whether

:46:40. > :46:45.it was a deliberate ploy, knowing how he was physically feeling, I

:46:46. > :46:50.don't know. If he is able to do that and serve that quickly on second

:46:51. > :46:53.serves, the question is, will he bring that into his game in other

:46:54. > :47:00.tournaments? I think eerily served on double fault. We salute Andy

:47:01. > :47:05.Murray once again. Let's continue the debate about who might play

:47:06. > :47:09.because having seen Andy Murray out her struggling, it shows how much

:47:10. > :47:15.the five hour match took out of him. It puts some doubt over the

:47:16. > :47:21.likelihood of Del Potro playing? Big doubt. Rumours abound that it will

:47:22. > :47:25.be Mayer. Del Potro didn't watch any games out there so if he is not

:47:26. > :47:32.playing, it is the biggest bluff of all time. They'll think it is

:47:33. > :47:36.coming. If Leonardo Mayer turns up, Dan Evans may pass out before he

:47:37. > :47:41.realises who was opponent is. When Del Potro came at the practice, he

:47:42. > :47:45.was only out there for about ten minutes. This was about as hard as

:47:46. > :47:49.he served in that Walmart. He didn't look very interested. This is not

:47:50. > :47:58.the warm up we would expect for someone coming out playing a fifth

:47:59. > :48:03.and deciding rubber. You are now thinking Del Potro is playing. Andy

:48:04. > :48:08.thought that. You just don't know. He might be saying to his captain,

:48:09. > :48:17.I've played so much tennis, I don't need the warm up. I still feel it

:48:18. > :48:23.will be Mayer but it is a bit of a bluff game. I think Del Potro will

:48:24. > :48:28.somehow show up. I think he has probably had a little nap and had

:48:29. > :48:32.the physio, I can't believe you were blameless. This is a chance for

:48:33. > :48:36.Argentina get to the final of the Davis Cup. Alessi has pulled a

:48:37. > :48:46.muscle, he will find a way to get out there. I might be wrong. It is a

:48:47. > :48:51.proud Davis Cup nation. They have been desperate to win it. He is the

:48:52. > :48:55.talisman, the one they look up to. In the press conference, this was

:48:56. > :49:03.not a statement any Argentinian fans would like to see because he says,:

:49:04. > :49:13.that suggests he is done. It does, I don't know. From the Argentinian

:49:14. > :49:15.team point of view, I hope they know who will play and they are not just

:49:16. > :49:19.finding out in the next five minutes. I assume they had a plan

:49:20. > :49:29.this morning and they knew who would lay. I am hearing it has now been

:49:30. > :49:32.confirmed, Leonardo Mayer. It is a whole different game now and a whole

:49:33. > :49:39.different match for Britain and Dan Evans. All of a sudden, Dan Evans

:49:40. > :49:45.goes from being certainly a lowdown... 30-70 chance to win, now

:49:46. > :49:49.it is back to 50-50. I don't know how that will affect his mindset

:49:50. > :49:55.because I'm sure Dan Evans thought he was playing Del Potro right until

:49:56. > :50:00.now. It will be interesting. Leonardo Mayer has a tremendous

:50:01. > :50:04.Davis Cup record and he has looked impressive. He warmed up today, a

:50:05. > :50:12.full 45 minute warm up unlike Del Potro. His ranking may be 140 right

:50:13. > :50:18.now but he was ranked as high as 21 in June last year. He is a top

:50:19. > :50:21.player and a big hitter. We saw some glimpses in the doubles and you can

:50:22. > :50:27.get into the top 30 in singles without having something about your

:50:28. > :50:33.game. -- you can't get into the top 30 in singles without having

:50:34. > :50:40.something about your game. Big returns when he was really letting

:50:41. > :50:44.fly on a few ground strokes. Dan Evans, it is a totally different

:50:45. > :50:46.match tactically because Del Potro, the way he was playing, it was very

:50:47. > :51:02.clear how he was going to play. Now he is the favourite, Dan Evans.

:51:03. > :51:06.As far as rankings go and his recent form, the US Open, he got through

:51:07. > :51:11.and had match point against Wawrinka. You would have to think

:51:12. > :51:15.this man, Dan, is the favourite to win this match and the tide.

:51:16. > :51:23.Absolutely, he is the form player. A good Davis Cup record. Recently, he

:51:24. > :51:27.has won a fifth rubber before. He is ranked high. With a home crowd, you

:51:28. > :51:32.would have the Zeidan is the favourite to win this match. And he

:51:33. > :51:38.has done it before. Been in this situation and done it before. He

:51:39. > :51:42.likes the big occasion. That is massive and I think Andy and Leon

:51:43. > :51:47.and the rest of the team, they always knew it would probably be Dan

:51:48. > :51:52.Evans playing the fifth match. The other thing that is difficult, his

:51:53. > :51:58.last match was at the US Open against Wawrinka. Quite a long time.

:51:59. > :52:01.He has had some rest, not easy to be around this weekend with how much

:52:02. > :52:05.tennis he has watched Friday and Saturday. He will have to come out

:52:06. > :52:10.and be right on it straightaway. We will take a breather because in the

:52:11. > :52:14.moment, Dan Evans takes on Leonardo Mayer to decide the tie. Andy Murray

:52:15. > :52:16.has levelled it today but let's tell you the story of the first two days

:52:17. > :52:20.in Glasgow. ANNOUNCER: Please welcome, Andy

:52:21. > :52:37.Murray. A welcome for Andy Murray. Here we are after nearly an hour,

:52:38. > :52:45.three set points. The ball went wide. He is livid. It

:52:46. > :53:16.is 1-1. 2-1, Murray, three and a half hours

:53:17. > :53:33.of the most enthralling tennis. That's brilliant from Del Potro.

:53:34. > :53:34.Four sets, four hours, two apiece, everything you would want from a

:53:35. > :53:48.Davis Cup tie and more. Made it! Magnificent from Del Potro.

:53:49. > :53:58.One of the great Davis Cup matches of all time. Extraordinary. Revenge

:53:59. > :54:06.for Rio, misery for Murray. The delightful Del Potro.

:54:07. > :54:14.We needed that very much. I won but I still remember the Olympic final.

:54:15. > :54:18.But I think this is very important for me, my team and we're looking

:54:19. > :54:30.forward to reach another final of the Davis Cup.

:54:31. > :54:35.My goodness, the defending champions needed a pick me up and Kyle Edmund

:54:36. > :54:41.has just given it to them. Argentina move ahead. Couple-mac-

:54:42. > :55:16.one. -- 2-1. The defending champions... A flimsy

:55:17. > :55:18.one after the opening day of the semifinal. It is Great Britain 0-

:55:19. > :55:29.two Argentina. A tough day when you are down, this

:55:30. > :55:38.is one of the rougher ones but we have to keep fighting.

:55:39. > :56:23.Britain's Davis Cup dream is still alive.

:56:24. > :56:28.SUE BARKER: The fightback started with the Murray brothers yesterday

:56:29. > :56:34.and then the younger brother and the continued, winning in straight sets

:56:35. > :56:38.against Guido Pella. He had an injury, was limping in the last few

:56:39. > :56:41.games but he gave it all, as he has done so often for his country, to

:56:42. > :56:47.come through and level the tie with Argentina. It is 2-2 and all down to

:56:48. > :56:54.the fifth and final match of the tie.

:56:55. > :57:02.There is no Del Potro, Leonardo Mayer will be playing Dan Evans.

:57:03. > :57:07.Andy Murray lost on the opening day to Del Potro. They came back hard in

:57:08. > :57:12.the doubles and he wins this match today. He heads off for a very

:57:13. > :57:18.well-deserved rest. The crowd are in full voice.

:57:19. > :57:25.It was a huge cheer for Dan Evans as he was announced because everyone

:57:26. > :57:30.knows this is such a chance. So difficult to come from two matches

:57:31. > :57:33.down in a Davis Cup. This certainly is a chance and Andy Murray will

:57:34. > :57:38.take a break from tennis but he will be the loudest person out there

:57:39. > :57:42.supporting Dan. He will be banging his hand on the board to get down

:57:43. > :57:47.going. This whole much has taken a completely different angle. I have

:57:48. > :57:50.no idea where it will go. I think Dan is the favourite but the whole

:57:51. > :57:55.mix has been thrown into complete disarray because he wasn't expecting

:57:56. > :57:59.to play his opponent. He has had to adjust very quickly and I think it

:58:00. > :58:06.will be interesting, Andy Murray will be in the locker room with Leon

:58:07. > :58:10.Smith, giving Dan tips and getting him excited but not too excited,

:58:11. > :58:15.getting him ready for probably the biggest match of his career. It is

:58:16. > :58:21.huge, to try to come out here and win a semifinal in the Davis Cup. We

:58:22. > :58:23.talk about the US Open and the Grand Slams but Davis Cup, playing for

:58:24. > :58:30.your country is a different level again. It is massive and he has

:58:31. > :58:33.everyone here cheering him on. You have to throw the rankings out of

:58:34. > :58:41.the window, you don't even think of them. Mayer is 115 or whatever and

:58:42. > :58:46.Dan Evans approaching top 50 but Mayer has some great tennis in him.

:58:47. > :58:50.We have seen in the past, he has a good Davis Cup record but we have

:58:51. > :58:54.seen in the past Dan can do it in a fifth and deciding rubber so I'm

:58:55. > :59:00.excited. I don't want to have to predict it so don't ask me who will

:59:01. > :59:03.win! I'm excited to be here but I would rather be in the press room

:59:04. > :59:06.now because I want to know what the Argentinian press corps are thinking

:59:07. > :59:11.about the fact Del Potro isn't playing. It is a staggering

:59:12. > :59:17.decision. I can't still understand why he played in the doubles. We

:59:18. > :59:19.have discussed and maybe he told the captain he only had one match left

:59:20. > :59:24.in him and that was probably the doubles. Why would you give yourself

:59:25. > :59:29.24 hours more just to see if there was a chance to play one of his

:59:30. > :59:33.biggest matches, Del Potro, because the Argentinians have never won the

:59:34. > :59:39.Davis Cup. He would be the favourite over Dan Evans but now, it is a

:59:40. > :59:46.50-50 match. They are just about to introduce the lines people and ball

:59:47. > :59:52.kids so we will be moving from BBC to BBC Two at 4:30pm. Plenty of

:59:53. > :59:57.sport on the BBC coming up to look forward to. Match of the day will

:59:58. > :00:16.include Watford against Manchester United.

:00:17. > :00:25.We will be seeing Andy Murray there as well. The ATP Tour finals. You

:00:26. > :00:31.know that Dan will thrive in this sort of occasion?

:00:32. > :00:39.He loves this, coming into play big Davis Cup matches before. This time

:00:40. > :00:49.last year he came in, Leon brought him in. He can play at this level.

:00:50. > :00:56.It really works in his favour, pressure situations. He will ask

:00:57. > :01:00.Mayer to do things, passing shots, coming up with winners, difficult to

:01:01. > :01:07.do under pressure. Looking at the world rankings, Davis Cup very

:01:08. > :01:11.difficult. He was 21 in the world in June last year, Leonardo Mayer. He

:01:12. > :01:21.has done well in Davis Cup. He has,

:01:22. > :01:26.picking up what Jamie Stead about Dan Evans. He is like an

:01:27. > :01:41.old-fashioned player, chips and charges.

:01:42. > :01:47.He has played in big matches this year, Dan Evans, played the

:01:48. > :01:54.challengers, to get the ranking up. He has shown he is a top 50 player.

:01:55. > :02:01.Always been that way in his game. Mentally about 400, going up and

:02:02. > :02:06.down with his dedication. Now seems to be working hard, no reason he

:02:07. > :02:12.cannot get into the top 20. He did show, with his run at the US Open,

:02:13. > :02:24.we did think... But he went off the boil. He has done a great job, with

:02:25. > :02:29.his coach. Looking to improve everyday. Going into the gym,

:02:30. > :02:33.looking a lot better. I watched him a lot at Wimbledon. He dismantled

:02:34. > :02:51.Alexander dog Alexandr Dolgopolov. Coming into

:02:52. > :03:01.this match, he has had six months top-level tennis. We expect him to

:03:02. > :03:05.deliver. Mark Hylton, coaching Dan, Kyle coached by Ryan Jones. Good

:03:06. > :03:09.British coaches, good for the game. The players are in the tunnel. Here

:03:10. > :04:14.comes Leonardo Mayer. What a different approach from both

:04:15. > :04:19.players. Dan strolling onto the court, Mayer coming on like

:04:20. > :04:22.prizefighter, ready for a bout. Interesting to see how he starts

:04:23. > :04:29.off, in the doubles yesterday, very edgy. A lot of easy volleys, over

:04:30. > :04:36.hitting it. Once he got into it, play very well. Does not want to

:04:37. > :04:40.give Dan Evans an early break. Not an easy player to play against, he

:04:41. > :04:44.messes you about. What you are saying about a slow start, that is

:04:45. > :04:52.why he is a good option for a match like this. He won't give Mayer the

:04:53. > :04:57.time to feel his way into the match. The modern player gets to hits a lot

:04:58. > :05:01.of balls early in the match. If he senses that Mayer is nervous, he

:05:02. > :05:06.will come in more, making sure he sees less of the ball. I'm sure Dan

:05:07. > :05:12.is nervous, but you never feel that in any match. He has a pretty good

:05:13. > :05:21.presence, does not show his hand, winning or losing. Pretty stable.

:05:22. > :05:25.When you have Leon on court. If he does have any lapses, having a coach

:05:26. > :05:29.with the captain, can really help. So he does not dip. He loves this

:05:30. > :05:38.atmosphere, I think he will play well. Mayer played in the doubles

:05:39. > :05:44.yesterday, for Dan, not playing the first singles, is that a

:05:45. > :05:54.disadvantage. He is fresh, that is why I made the point. Having not

:05:55. > :05:57.played, it is tough. The preparation until Thursday, it would have been

:05:58. > :06:07.fine. Played a lot of tennis. Sitting around. Not that easy. About

:06:08. > :06:14.11 o'clock on Friday, they probably knew he would play on Sunday. Not

:06:15. > :06:17.your normal routine, difficult. Questions asked about Leon, not

:06:18. > :06:23.playing him in the first one. Always knew he would play in the fifth one

:06:24. > :06:29.if needed. Perhaps conjured not be too critical of his choice. Fair

:06:30. > :06:34.enough. Played extremely well, Kyle Edmund. Deserves his chance against

:06:35. > :06:41.Pella. Did not play as well as we would hope. I think it will be fine.

:06:42. > :06:46.Kyle owning his place, what he did in Serbia. Two matches like that,

:06:47. > :06:52.almost in his hands, he came through big-time. The selection was

:06:53. > :07:00.absolutely fair. As far as Dan is concerned. Not the usual one you see

:07:01. > :07:06.on the tour. A lot of variety. Improving a lot, in the last 12

:07:07. > :07:17.months. He can do a bit of everything. He has a good first and

:07:18. > :07:33.second serve. He now uses his forehand as much as he can. They

:07:34. > :07:37.wanted this one to be needy fast. Is that a disadvantage, to Dan? It

:07:38. > :07:48.would have been nice to be a bit quicker. People talk about his

:07:49. > :07:53.variation, I like the way he will hit an innocent looking slice,

:07:54. > :07:58.coming behind it quickly. One of the best and volleying on the tour.

:07:59. > :08:04.There is the man we thought would be out there. Juan Martin Del Potro.

:08:05. > :08:09.True to his word. Did not want to put one match ahead of his career.

:08:10. > :08:16.In some ways, you have to understand that. Out of the game for 2.5 years.

:08:17. > :08:22.He has made his way back, beaten Andy Murray, he feels he is right

:08:23. > :08:27.back on the top of his game, could be facing surgery. Someone on

:08:28. > :08:32.medical advice, totally changing the way he plays. Single-handed

:08:33. > :08:39.backhand. We know he can hit two handed backhand. Hardly hitting one

:08:40. > :08:43.slice yesterday. Just not so hard. Taking that advice very seriously.

:08:44. > :08:48.Does not want to be in a position where he cannot play any tennis. The

:08:49. > :08:52.question I am asking, if he was not playing, why was he not sitting out

:08:53. > :08:58.here for the first match. I'm sure it was to make Dan think about

:08:59. > :09:03.Hughie was playing. So he could prepare for both players. All part

:09:04. > :09:11.of it. What I cannot understand with Del Potro, as Jamie Stead, he had to

:09:12. > :09:15.hit the two handed backhand in the doubles. A lot more than against

:09:16. > :09:20.Andy Murray in the singles. Putting more pressure on his wrist. If he

:09:21. > :09:26.only had one match, why not keep it to the singles? A big cheer for Dan

:09:27. > :09:32.Evans. That is the response from the crowd. Jamie you will be amongst

:09:33. > :09:36.them all. They will play their part. They are going to try to disrupt

:09:37. > :09:41.Leonardo Mayer, as much as they can. All part of it. That is why you have

:09:42. > :09:47.the advantage of a home match. I would expect to see the whole GB

:09:48. > :09:53.bench, led by Matt Little, to start orchestrating the crowd to get them

:09:54. > :10:00.going. They are in full voice, they know how important this is. There is

:10:01. > :10:06.Matt Little. Andy Murray's trainer. Tortuous fitness regimes. He is a

:10:07. > :10:14.torture trainer. Going to train with them. He will put this crowd through

:10:15. > :10:20.a torture chamber. If they get quiet, he will be up on his seat. We

:10:21. > :10:24.talk about how the crowd plays such an effect. Why the British team are

:10:25. > :10:29.out there, cheering along with the barmy Army. Trying to get them to

:10:30. > :10:38.worry the Argentinian team. To really support Dan Evans. He will

:10:39. > :10:45.love the noise. This is where Leon, and John, they can play a part.

:10:46. > :10:49.Best-of-5 sets, a long match. They will have ups and downs, if he does

:10:50. > :10:54.not make a good start, feeling like a heavy point. They have a thousand

:10:55. > :11:00.people behind them. Every single step. What an asset. I would rather

:11:01. > :11:07.be the home player than the away one. How do you think Dan will

:11:08. > :11:12.approach this? I was expecting to be very aggressive, mix up of first

:11:13. > :11:17.serve, volleying, slice. His forehand has become much bigger in

:11:18. > :11:21.the last 6-12 months. He will look to use that as much as possible. All

:11:22. > :11:28.about taking the time away from Mayer. Not giving him time to do

:11:29. > :11:33.what he wants. Making him feel, listen, I am Dan Evans, this is my

:11:34. > :11:39.court. Thank you, Jamie. Only ten times since the world group was

:11:40. > :11:45.devised, no country has come back from 2-0 to win a time. This is what

:11:46. > :11:50.the British team once Dan Evans to do. Here we are, 2-2. This match

:11:51. > :11:54.will decide who goes through to the Davis Cup final. Sit back and enjoy

:11:55. > :12:00.it with John Lloyd and John Inverdale.

:12:01. > :12:03.COMMENTATOR: Funny, the way the world turns. Ranked way down a 700,

:12:04. > :12:17.regarded as the on-farm -- enfant terrible British tennis,

:12:18. > :13:17.now with a chance to go down in British tennis history.

:13:18. > :13:59.John Lloyd, you are a bookmaker. What odds are you offering in this

:14:00. > :14:14.game? I would say, we are slight favourites, 55-45. 55-45. Isn't that

:14:15. > :14:36.what I said? In favour of Dan, by the way.

:14:37. > :14:57.I'll tell you one thing, this does not have the feel of what you expect

:14:58. > :15:01.in a Davis Cup deciding match. Both players would be edgy, they are both

:15:02. > :15:09.coming out in striking the ball straightaway.

:15:10. > :15:22.A huge opportunity for Dan Evans. Also a huge opportunity for that

:15:23. > :15:45.man, too. Rich Davis Cup is. -- history. Never winning it.

:15:46. > :15:51.I actually went to the press room between the matches, talking to a

:15:52. > :15:55.couple of the Argentine journalists stop talking about the whole Del

:15:56. > :16:01.Potro scenario, why he was not playing. The general consensus was

:16:02. > :16:11.the Argentine captain did not want to play him, and Del Potro insisted.

:16:12. > :16:15.I believe we can win it today. If that is the case, interesting

:16:16. > :16:23.scenario. Interesting back story, to what may unfold over the next 2-3

:16:24. > :16:29.hours. I have no doubts the decision came from Del Potro. If that is the

:16:30. > :16:44.case, well... It does pose an interesting question

:16:45. > :16:50.about the role of the captain when you have a big superstar in your

:16:51. > :17:03.ranks. I can tell you about that, if you want.

:17:04. > :18:09.That is out of the Andy Murray playbook. We will see more than

:18:10. > :18:15.that, Dan Evans did not get enough on the volley. Still, tremendous

:18:16. > :18:30.top-spin lob. That will not stop Dan from doing that again.

:18:31. > :19:35.That is what you call a trifle ambitious. Like one of yours.

:19:36. > :19:47.Always good to get a score on the board.

:19:48. > :19:56.Not going to miss Dan Evans at night, in those shoes. During the

:19:57. > :20:00.course of however long this takes, we can talk about Daniel Evans a

:20:01. > :20:07.lot. You have known him for many years. How world would he have been

:20:08. > :20:11.when you first met him? Good question. I picked him in his first

:20:12. > :20:14.Davis Cup match. Could not have been much more than 18, 19. Against

:20:15. > :20:23.Poland? Yes. He's hit some big shots in the

:20:24. > :22:45.doubles, but also missed a view. A bit like Andy Murray, defending

:22:46. > :22:51.really well. In travel a few times. Got himself back into the rally.

:22:52. > :23:20.Excellent point. Early days, here we are, two break points.

:23:21. > :23:38.He is getting his racket on a lot of the Serbs. He seems to be reading

:23:39. > :23:43.the serve pretty well. He knows he's into the Argentine's serve. Whatever

:23:44. > :23:50.the outcome. We'll give him a lot of confidence.

:23:51. > :25:13.Mayer to get the first mini hold of the match.

:25:14. > :25:16.Only in Davis Cup is it permissible to applaud an opponent's double

:25:17. > :25:58.fault. I was going to say that. Del Potro has been more vocal in

:25:59. > :26:03.this match, than the whole time. He knows how important this is. He

:26:04. > :26:08.knows this is a 50-50 game. Can have a big part to play in this match.

:26:09. > :26:15.Interesting to see how much he does at the changeover. With Del Potro,

:26:16. > :26:32.he almost didn't say anything. Like a statue.

:26:33. > :26:39.One of those games, that if you can hold, you are believed. From Dan

:26:40. > :27:13.Evans' point of view, he's eyeing this. The chance, early on.

:27:14. > :27:18.Not playing percentage tennis, Mayer. Big opportunity for Dan

:27:19. > :28:03.Evans. Dan Evans lands the first blow. A

:28:04. > :28:06.lot more punches to be thrown, before Great Britain make it through

:28:07. > :28:14.to a second consecutive Davis Cup final. Just had a message from six

:28:15. > :28:19.exile British tennis fans, in a bar in Sydney, Australia. Three o'clock

:28:20. > :28:28.in the morning, at work in four hours' time. Going through the

:28:29. > :28:35.night. Could be a long one. Not an hour where you think Xavi go to bed?

:28:36. > :28:42.Both going for it. Surprised how aggressive Mayer has been. Any

:28:43. > :28:51.chance to attack, he going for it. Made Day few unforced errors. Does

:28:52. > :28:56.not want down to dictate, with the variety he has in his game. Every

:28:57. > :29:08.time he gets a chance, going for a big shock.

:29:09. > :29:20.-- shot. We saw that in the men's doubles, did not have a good start,

:29:21. > :29:28.then caught fire. We have said not many come from 2-0 down. The last

:29:29. > :29:29.time Britain did that was against Russia, in 2013. Daniel Evans

:29:30. > :29:50.winning the fifth match. The last time Britain had done that

:29:51. > :31:07.before that was 1930, against Germany. It is that rare.

:31:08. > :31:18.When Mayer gaze Bay, he goes big. Right in the middle of the service

:31:19. > :31:46.box. It said hit me. Don't think that will happen too many times.

:31:47. > :31:52.He will relishing the bear pit Dan Evans. He is that sort of character.

:31:53. > :31:57.He started off so well. Mayer has had a look at his captain there. He

:31:58. > :31:58.hasn't got the balance yet. There is a line, being aggressive and being

:31:59. > :32:01.hasn't got the balance yet. There is a line, being aggressive and being

:32:02. > :32:05.reckless. At the moment he is not settling

:32:06. > :32:47.before he is going for the big shot. At times there, his balance was off.

:32:48. > :32:54.Mayer took just a bit off those shots there. Exactly right. He

:32:55. > :32:57.wasn't going for the lines there. His margin was a little bit safe

:32:58. > :32:59.Coppinger. That may have been what his captain said to me Probably,

:33:00. > :33:45.yes. When he comes in on that sliced

:33:46. > :33:52.backhand, there is a lot of byte on him. A lot of backhand slices in the

:33:53. > :33:57.modern game. Players play with two hands which Dan doesn't have. The

:33:58. > :33:59.backhand slice seems to float but that went on the court and stayed

:34:00. > :34:38.low. Tough to pass on that shot. Good court coverage by Essex but

:34:39. > :34:44.Mayer was in control of that. -- by Evans.

:34:45. > :34:52.If Leon Smith was watching on that one, he would have been saying -

:34:53. > :34:54.it's OK, if you can hit shots like that every point, good luck trying

:34:55. > :36:19.to hit those. It was a good rally. He is an imposing figure, Mayer,

:36:20. > :36:23.though, isn't he? He can be. He has a lot of power. I think at the

:36:24. > :36:28.changeover his captain will be telling him he has to get his

:36:29. > :36:34.balance a little bit right. It was almost over-hyped. He has made ten

:36:35. > :36:37.unforced errors, compared with Dan Evan's two at the moment. That has

:36:38. > :36:39.been the story. He has to calm down a little bit.

:36:40. > :36:49.OUT. It is worth saying that Mayer was

:36:50. > :36:54.once ranked in the top 30. Got as high as 21, I think. You don't get

:36:55. > :36:56.to that point unless you are a class player. He has dropped recently but

:36:57. > :37:37.it is there in his game. That was an emphatic shot to finish

:37:38. > :37:43.that off. Great Britain, in the shape of Dan Evans still have a

:37:44. > :37:48.break in this opening set. Before we talk about Dan, let's see what the

:37:49. > :37:54.captain is saying to his charge. Not a lot at the moment.

:37:55. > :38:09.Well, he is going to say something. There we go. There we go, "How is

:38:10. > :38:13.the racket?" Here we go. Let's talk about Dan Evans. There is Dan and

:38:14. > :38:18.Leon Smith. He has had bad publicity over the years, Dan. Some of it of

:38:19. > :38:22.his own making. He has been the architect of a lot of it. But, has

:38:23. > :38:27.he had sometimes unfair treatment, do you think at the hands of the

:38:28. > :38:32.media? Well, I think, when you look at someone like Dan, one of the

:38:33. > :38:38.great things that an outsider doesn't like to see is someone who

:38:39. > :38:43.wastes talent who. Doesn't fulfil their 100% potential and Dan has, at

:38:44. > :38:47.times, as he is right now - but there has been many other times

:38:48. > :38:53.where he has dipped almost off the planet, where he hasn't trained and

:38:54. > :38:56.his motivation has gone. I think that's where it gets crucial.

:38:57. > :39:01.Everybody, sometimes other than himself, can see how good he could

:39:02. > :39:07.become. In this day and age it is a business. If your levels drop with

:39:08. > :39:11.your work rate and work ethics, your ranking will drop. And that's what

:39:12. > :39:15.everybody wants him to do. To keep the kind of level we have seen

:39:16. > :39:20.recently. If he can sustain this, he could be top 20. But if he drops, he

:39:21. > :39:47.will be out of that top 100 very quickly.

:39:48. > :39:55.Mayer doesn't want to go back to playing challenger tournaments in

:39:56. > :40:01.Uzbekistan and things like that. That's where the hard work comes in.

:40:02. > :40:05.- maybe he doesn't want to go back to playing challenger tournaments.

:40:06. > :40:32.But this is a huge opportunity on a grand stage.

:40:33. > :40:38.You are absolutely right, John, in the context this match could

:40:39. > :40:45.literally win us the Davis Cup. OK, there is a little team in front

:40:46. > :40:52.called Croatia but it would put us in an amazing position. It could,

:40:53. > :40:55.almost it comes down to this match. He has an opportunity here for his

:40:56. > :40:57.career. Imagine what this could do for him, if he does it the right

:40:58. > :41:10.way? Well the net is on Dan Evans' side

:41:11. > :41:24.at the moment. The whole point is that it is 4.30pm

:41:25. > :41:28.on a Sunday afternoon. Millions watching in this country but this

:41:29. > :41:34.game is being watched all over the world, in bars in Sydney. This is a

:41:35. > :41:37.wide, wide constituency who are seeing Dan Evans. Andy Murray is

:41:38. > :42:05.back. If you are a spectator and watching

:42:06. > :42:08.this and thinking of Dan Evans across the net there, this is the

:42:09. > :42:14.biggest match of his career, without question. Andy is back. Now, do you

:42:15. > :42:26.shrink or flourish? Do you embrace the moment?

:42:27. > :42:36.In a second we'll start seeing Andy beating the boards there, with his

:42:37. > :42:48.support. Hopefully he has enough strength in

:42:49. > :43:58.his legs to stand up and do that. UMPIRE: New balls, please.

:43:59. > :44:01.So, Evans with his nose still in front.

:44:02. > :44:06.The first set in every match is important. Sometimes with a capital

:44:07. > :44:11.I. In the context of this match and everything else, all the hull la

:44:12. > :44:14.balance lieu that is going with it. How significant do you think, if

:44:15. > :44:18.Evans was to win this first set, that might be? Obviously it is a

:44:19. > :44:23.great help. I don't think you would say - OK, now, he is a definite

:44:24. > :44:28.winner. This is five sets. The best of three is a different ball game.

:44:29. > :44:33.The best of five sets is a marathon. Mayer is going to get better. You

:44:34. > :44:37.have seen glimpses of him. At the moment, he still hasn't quite got it

:44:38. > :44:43.right with his tactics. Impressively to me, it is the way Dan has come

:44:44. > :44:49.out and played superbly. He has been the patient one. Aggressive where

:44:50. > :44:53.necessary. He has made almost no unforced errors. He is on top of his

:44:54. > :44:59.game and in control. His opponent at the moment is a little too fired up

:45:00. > :45:02.and he has to pull back a bit. It is an interesting first set but I don't

:45:03. > :45:04.think it'll necessarily make a difference between the winner and

:45:05. > :45:09.loser. I see just a long match coming here. I can't see any other

:45:10. > :45:15.way it is not going to be. It just has that feel. But maybe not.

:45:16. > :45:28.I thought Del Potro would be playing, so what do I know? !

:45:29. > :45:43.I think it is fair to say, if Del Potro isn't playing, it will

:45:44. > :46:06.definitely be Delbonis who plays. I should just say as Dan Evans takes

:46:07. > :46:13.the first two points, if you have just tuned in to watch Escape To The

:46:14. > :46:15.Country, we are staying to watch this final rubber in the Davis Cup

:46:16. > :46:31.between Great Britain and Argentina. So you can escape to Glasgow until

:46:32. > :47:08.5:30pm at least. Andy watches on pensively. All energy spent.

:47:09. > :48:09.So impressive so far from Dan Evans, he is just looking so solid out

:48:10. > :48:27.here. Almost no unforced error is. And completely at home.

:48:28. > :48:35.That is the worst shot he has played the whole day. Some people do crave

:48:36. > :48:42.the big stage, don't though? And sometimes playing second tier

:48:43. > :48:44.tournaments in front of half a man, getting the motivation going even

:48:45. > :48:52.with the knowledge this is the carrot is hard to do.

:48:53. > :48:59.You are right, and you always hope is a Davis Cup captain that you have

:49:00. > :49:03.players that play above their ranking when they come out here, and

:49:04. > :49:07.we have had that example in the last few years with James Ward, who so

:49:08. > :49:11.helped us win the Davis Cup when he beat John Isner against the USA,

:49:12. > :49:12.that tends to get forgotten because of all the stuff that Andy Murray

:49:13. > :49:22.did. You want players like that that can

:49:23. > :50:31.peak when they play for their country.

:50:32. > :50:41.Mayer hangs in there, it is up to Evans now to finish it off. This is

:50:42. > :50:45.the big game now. He made a few errors in that game, but he has

:50:46. > :50:49.managed his serve so well, he has looked solid in all departments,

:50:50. > :50:55.only five unforced errors, phenomenal at this level. It is the

:50:56. > :51:00.old cliche, but it is literally one point at a time here, don't look too

:51:01. > :51:09.far ahead. Leon Smith is chatting to him a lot at this changeover. When

:51:10. > :51:13.you were giving chat room in similar circumstances to this, did you feel

:51:14. > :51:16.that it was going in, or is it almost sometimes white noise because

:51:17. > :51:19.the player is in such a zone of their own making that in a sense,

:51:20. > :51:24.what is happening around them, they are not absorbing? Each player is

:51:25. > :51:29.different and has a different personality. Some don't want to

:51:30. > :51:32.talk, others want you to talk and want to talk to you and want

:51:33. > :51:38.feedback. Everybody is different and you have to learn that early on.

:51:39. > :51:44.Huge roar from the crowd for Dan Evans.

:51:45. > :51:51.After 30 odd minutes, his first opportunity to take this opening

:51:52. > :53:02.set, and nudge Great Britain ahead. A bit lucky there, that forehand

:53:03. > :53:09.return was a complete mis-hit, ended up being a very good shot. That

:53:10. > :53:11.return was fortunate, he did well with a hands on that half-volley,

:53:12. > :53:44.but was a tough shot. Smacked the server down, big

:53:45. > :53:54.forehand, big overhead, two points from the set.

:53:55. > :54:05.He actually looks like he's enjoying it, as well.

:54:06. > :54:06.UMPIRE: Let, first service. Not overawed, not intimidated,

:54:07. > :54:47.relishing. CHEERING

:54:48. > :54:53.Listen to that raw! Listen to the crowd!

:54:54. > :55:05.You probably know what the atmosphere is like, but somebody who

:55:06. > :55:11.is right in the middle of it is Jamie Baker, and he is with Jamie

:55:12. > :55:14.Murray. The atmosphere is incredible, the support for Dan

:55:15. > :55:19.Evans after every second point is amazing. A quick word with Jamie.

:55:20. > :55:23.Your thoughts on there being no Del Potro on the court? I guess he

:55:24. > :55:28.obviously either physically didn't feel good or had issues with his

:55:29. > :55:34.wrist. Maybe before the time he said to the captain, I have two matches

:55:35. > :55:38.in May, and that was going to be the singles and Andy in the doubles. I

:55:39. > :55:47.don't know if it is better for Dan or not. He has had a great start,

:55:48. > :55:51.Mayer only came into this tie recently, hasn't had a good year,

:55:52. > :55:54.and Dan has started great, hitting the ball well, on top of the

:55:55. > :56:00.baseline, coming forward when he has the chance. I hope he continues.

:56:01. > :56:05.Going back to Friday, not being 2-0 down often, what did you guys do as

:56:06. > :56:12.a team? We just came out Saturday and won! We said, we have still got

:56:13. > :56:15.a chance. Friday was a tough day, a long day, pretty much got back to

:56:16. > :56:20.the hotel and went to bed, to be honest. And then Saturday is a new

:56:21. > :56:27.day, another chance to get back into the tie, Andy was also, and Dan has

:56:28. > :56:35.a chance to win it for us and try to get to the final. Thank you, Jamie.

:56:36. > :56:52.JOHN INVERDALE: A hastily assembled Dan made out of three bits of a A4

:56:53. > :56:57.there. It was a superb set, he managed it so well, he was so solid,

:56:58. > :57:03.almost no unforced error is, three times as many unforced error is from

:57:04. > :57:07.my. He has to control that, and bring those back, otherwise it will

:57:08. > :57:24.be a short afternoon for him, but an excellent set for Dan Evans.

:57:25. > :57:33.That is a good way to start a new set. He is an experienced pro, he

:57:34. > :57:36.has been around, he has played a lot of Davis Cup matches, one set down,

:57:37. > :57:39.best of five sets, the match has barely started in his eyes. A penny

:57:40. > :57:50.for his thoughts at the moment. When you think they haven't won the

:57:51. > :57:57.Davis Cup when they had him and Nalbandian, and before that they had

:57:58. > :58:08.good players and they have never won it.

:58:09. > :58:15.Again, these Argentine journalist, it is always interesting to talk to

:58:16. > :58:17.the guys from the press who understand foreign countries'

:58:18. > :58:23.sporting culture, talking to them between these matches.

:58:24. > :58:33.They were saying there are warring factions in Argentine tennis between

:58:34. > :58:36.Buenos Aires and the outlying areas which means they have never had a

:58:37. > :58:39.co-ordinated approach to the Davis Cup, and this was the first time

:58:40. > :58:40.they felt they had a really united team, and this was the moment they

:58:41. > :58:58.would seize the opportunity. That is a pretty emphatic first game

:58:59. > :59:02.from Mayer. I think you are right, Del Potro and knob and Ian were not

:59:03. > :59:19.exactly best friends, so I think that was a problem. -- Del Potro and

:59:20. > :59:23.David now banned Nalbandian were not friends. They are doing their best,

:59:24. > :59:28.the Argentinians doing their best to make themselves heard even though

:59:29. > :59:34.they are outnumbered. It is probably 20 to one I would probably say,

:59:35. > :59:42.Great Britain to Argentina in terms of the crowd.

:59:43. > :59:54.Dan Evans will regard them as a key factor as this match goes on.

:59:55. > :59:58.I still haven't seen Andy Murray get up yet, he is normally up every

:59:59. > :00:33.point, I do think he can get up! He has done everything in this

:00:34. > :00:41.point. Inside the service line there. You have to keep your feet

:00:42. > :00:42.moving on the overhead or you get stuck, and that pulls everything

:00:43. > :01:21.down. Undaunted by that very straight

:01:22. > :01:27.holed from Mayer, Evans does the same. There is Andy, on the far side

:01:28. > :01:34.of Liam Broady. It is a full house on the support team bench. Some more

:01:35. > :01:38.animated than others. Look dandy's face, he is normally so animated. I

:01:39. > :01:44.think he only has a limited amount of energy left and he is saving it

:01:45. > :02:07.for crucial times. Normally he is standing up and shouting.

:02:08. > :02:25.very accurate in the serving games from Mayer.

:02:26. > :03:28.He has served five aces to Evans' one.

:03:29. > :03:37.Argentina sneaker head. Dan Evans is not a big guy, and we're getting

:03:38. > :03:44.used to players in all sports, and the big you are, the bigger the

:03:45. > :03:49.weapon you have. Bulk gives you power, so if you are Dan Evans and

:03:50. > :03:52.you are very much medium build, five foot ten, he is slight in the

:03:53. > :03:57.context of the big guys, how does that mean that you have to alter or

:03:58. > :04:03.manoeuvre your game to make sure that you can compete against bigger

:04:04. > :04:11.players? In the modern game you have to have big weapons, a serve and one

:04:12. > :04:16.other. Dan Evans hasn't got a big weapon where you go, his serve is

:04:17. > :04:20.tremendous, his forehand, whatever, but he does everything well. His

:04:21. > :04:24.volley is one of the best in the world, but what he does have is an

:04:25. > :04:30.unusual, unique style, and that is what makes it difficult to play,

:04:31. > :04:34.because the modern player, and I am exaggerating to say they all play

:04:35. > :04:37.the same, they don't, but a large percentage tend to play a pretty

:04:38. > :04:43.sort of up and down game, big serve, big forehand, but Dan Evans does

:04:44. > :04:46.multiple things on the court, and it is difficult to play against someone

:04:47. > :04:51.because you don't see them very often, so he has to keep this

:04:52. > :04:54.rioting and get fitter and stronger, but the big thing here for Dan Evans

:04:55. > :04:56.is the mental side and the physicality and the work ethic that

:04:57. > :05:03.you can never let your guard down. It is a 52- week a year job. As Andy

:05:04. > :05:28.Murray will tell you. Mayer was just asking for a delay in

:05:29. > :05:39.play there. The University band overstayed their

:05:40. > :05:57.welcome at that interlude there. UMPIRE: Great Britain is challenging

:05:58. > :06:05.the call on the left service line. The ball was called out.

:06:06. > :06:40.It is 1000 miles away from here, but the Surbiton Challenger this year

:06:41. > :06:43.before Queen's when Dan Evans had a ferocious altercation with one of

:06:44. > :06:49.the officials there, there is a fire that burns inside him, isn't there?

:06:50. > :08:40.There certainly is. If he can channel at the right way.

:08:41. > :08:53.Bueno is the word, and Leonardo Mayer has a break point on the Dan

:08:54. > :08:54.Evans serve. We haven't seen a serve- volley from

:08:55. > :09:09.Dan Evans yet. He played a great game there,

:09:10. > :09:17.Leonardo Mayer, and that is a break to Argentina. That really was, and

:09:18. > :09:24.that was the waiter shot from Mayer that took over in that game, driving

:09:25. > :09:28.Dan Evans back, and he was ending up six or eight feet by the baseline,

:09:29. > :09:32.always behind in these rallies, and that was an excellent forehand down

:09:33. > :09:38.the line, he hits two of those in this game. That is the best passage

:09:39. > :09:39.of play that Mayer has shown since the game started, and that is a

:09:40. > :10:07.danger signal. The etiquette of this crowd has been

:10:08. > :10:10.impeccable throughout these tumultuous three days of

:10:11. > :10:16.competition, but you suspect as it gets closer to the finish line

:10:17. > :10:18.either way, as it gets more and more raucous, we will have more

:10:19. > :10:39.interventions closer and closer to the play.

:10:40. > :10:50.The first time in a while but we have seen Dan Evans dictating the

:10:51. > :11:12.play. He has got a good rhythm now on this

:11:13. > :11:57.server. And again. They are coming in fast,

:11:58. > :12:02.too. That was 132, but it isn't just the speed. About an inch from the

:12:03. > :12:04.line on both sides, and Dan Evans has been defending well, but there

:12:05. > :12:12.is not much he can do at the moment. He just has to keep working and hope

:12:13. > :12:29.that his rhythm will go a little bit.

:12:30. > :12:43.One hour played, and we are glued to it. Seven aces, Mayer in control in

:12:44. > :12:51.this second set at the moment. It is not really a question of Dan Evans'

:12:52. > :12:57.level drop, Mayer's level has gone up, substantially so. He has cut out

:12:58. > :13:03.a lot of the unforced errors he was making in that first set, and his

:13:04. > :13:09.serve has gone up a level. Now he is looking very confident, but as I

:13:10. > :13:14.said, there is still a lot of tennis left in this match, and there will

:13:15. > :13:18.be a lot of up and down in a five set match, but at the moment, Mayer

:13:19. > :13:26.is the one dominating the play, but Dan Evans' job is to take care of

:13:27. > :13:29.business on his side of the court, and hopefully he will have a chance

:13:30. > :13:37.to break. This is how Mayer played in the doubles yesterday, in the

:13:38. > :13:41.first set he was all over the place, but then he suddenly came into his

:13:42. > :13:44.own in the second. We are seeing glimpses of why he was 20, 21 in the

:13:45. > :15:06.world. That is the first serve- volley, not

:15:07. > :15:12.the cleanest volley, but he got away with it. He does have very nice

:15:13. > :15:15.technique on the volley. That was a good-looking backhand volley with

:15:16. > :15:37.help from the net cord, as well. I was about to say before he did

:15:38. > :15:45.that that that is something he threw in only occasionally. He did two in

:15:46. > :15:47.a row and you asking for trouble. -- that is something you should throw

:15:48. > :16:21.in only occasionally. Dan Evans asked Pascal Maria if it

:16:22. > :16:30.was in. The umpire said he would be guessing if he gave you an answer.

:16:31. > :16:51.It would have been a good guess! I'd put your house on it. 40-30.

:16:52. > :17:10.Well done. Solid hold. New balls, please. Could have done without new

:17:11. > :17:14.balls. But he did exactly what you said he had to do. Concentrate on

:17:15. > :17:23.winning his service games and then you are in with a shot. It may sound

:17:24. > :17:26.an absurd thing to say, but it's extraordinary how sporting events

:17:27. > :17:34.can turn on one moment, no matter how long the matches maybe. Cricket

:17:35. > :17:38.or whatever. Looking at Andy Murray, that one forehand down the line from

:17:39. > :17:44.del Potro. The whole match on that one shot.

:17:45. > :17:50.That was a good get, very good stretch on that backhand. Because

:17:51. > :17:56.that was another good server, right in the corner.

:17:57. > :18:02.Andy stood up there. There he goes! He will be doing that for another

:18:03. > :18:32.half an hour. -- he will not. That is an excellent point. That was

:18:33. > :18:38.it difficult forehand that he hit there. Dan Evans had that backhand

:18:39. > :18:45.low and to go for that angle at 0-15... A bit of slice, he keeps

:18:46. > :18:49.that low. That angle from there, a fantastic shot. A good instinct of

:18:50. > :18:51.coming in and cutting off the ball before it gets too low. Very good

:18:52. > :19:13.point from both players. He still has his eye in at the

:19:14. > :19:17.moment. Welcome back to the Argentinian fan with the Tam

:19:18. > :19:31.O'Shanter. He wasn't there earlier today.

:19:32. > :20:19.Probably a way of encouraging del Potro to play.

:20:20. > :20:29.Game Argentina. Argentina lead 5-2. You sort Dan Evans down below puffy

:20:30. > :20:33.cheeks out. Not much he could do. Exactly. That was not in his hands.

:20:34. > :20:40.He did everything right, but three big serves coming at him. The serve

:20:41. > :20:46.took over. This is such a different set from my. It is controlled

:20:47. > :20:51.aggression. The first set, he was too hyped up. He was going for balls

:20:52. > :20:57.too soon, and the errors kept coming. This set, he has made a few

:20:58. > :21:02.errors, but nowhere near as many. His margins are greater. He is going

:21:03. > :21:08.for big shots, but not going for the lines. His serve is a huge weapon

:21:09. > :21:13.right now. If he can continue with this huge percentage of first serves

:21:14. > :21:18.going in, it will not be easy for Dan Evans. He has really got to

:21:19. > :21:22.focus on holding his serve because if my keep serving like this, there

:21:23. > :21:37.will not be too many breaks coming his way. -- if Mayer. He is up to

:21:38. > :21:43.high -- he is up to a high percentage. All Dan Evans can do is

:21:44. > :21:45.hang in there, hold his serve and then challenge Mayer to serve it

:21:46. > :22:28.out. Just before that point, somebody in

:22:29. > :22:30.the crowd shouted, come on, Daniel. I'm kind of guessing... I don't

:22:31. > :23:08.think his mum calls him that. He is going to have to watch a

:23:09. > :23:13.little bit on the second server. It wasn't that that was a slow second

:23:14. > :23:18.serve, but it was the placement. A little bit too much in the middle of

:23:19. > :23:21.the box, allowing Mayer to take over with that first strike. It has to be

:23:22. > :23:53.a bit more accurate. CHEERING.

:23:54. > :23:57.Tennis obviously cannot always be like this, but wouldn't it be great

:23:58. > :24:23.if sometimes it was a bit more like this? Oh, it's fantastic.

:24:24. > :24:45.CHEERING. Excellent play. Now, the biggest

:24:46. > :24:54.game for Mayer since this match started. Dan Evans nerveless in the

:24:55. > :25:05.first set when he served it out. Let's see what happens with Mayer.

:25:06. > :25:09.The rhythm on this service arm has been fantastic throughout this set.

:25:10. > :25:34.But at moments of stress, that's when it suddenly can twitch a bit.

:25:35. > :25:51.CHEERING. Well, Dan Evans forced Mayer into

:25:52. > :25:53.that. Look how low this approach shot is. The slice go so low you

:25:54. > :26:34.have to hit that by your ankles. He thought about getting out of his

:26:35. > :26:44.chair, and then he thought, I'm asked. Andy Murray now on his feet.

:26:45. > :27:57.Strong in the arm but strong in the head, to, Mayer.

:27:58. > :28:09.Argentina challenging the call. This is very close.

:28:10. > :28:56.First service. Well, that was fortunate. 133 miles an hour.

:28:57. > :29:07.Well, Evans was cross about that. You can see what was in his mind,

:29:08. > :29:20.going down the line and then coming in.

:29:21. > :29:47.So a chance for Argentina to square things up.

:29:48. > :30:03.Game, Argentina. So it's two matches all, one set all. Sunday afternoons

:30:04. > :30:07.were made for drama like this. STUDIO:

:30:08. > :30:12.Tremendous tension and drama in Glasgow. We are going nowhere on BBC

:30:13. > :30:18.One. If you are tuning in expecting to see songs of praise, that will be

:30:19. > :30:22.shown on BBC Two. We are staying with the tennis. Because Great

:30:23. > :30:27.Britain are trying to stage a magnificent comeback. Earlier today,

:30:28. > :30:31.Andy Murray drew the match level with a straight sets defeat of Guido

:30:32. > :30:35.Pella. He was struggling with injury in the third set, he knew you had to

:30:36. > :30:44.close the match out quickly and like the great competitor he is, he did

:30:45. > :30:51.that. He has bigger returns, bigger serves. He was running on empty but

:30:52. > :30:58.managed to complete a magnificent victory. He made the match 2-2

:30:59. > :31:01.against Argentina. A hug from Captain Leon Smith and a very weary

:31:02. > :31:06.Murray makes his way along the Great Britain bench to thank them for

:31:07. > :31:12.their support throughout the match. So it is Andy Murray who once again

:31:13. > :31:17.has pulled off a heroic victory here in Glasgow in front of his adoring

:31:18. > :31:23.fans. That is two matches all. We are now down to this last match, Dan

:31:24. > :31:28.Evans against Leonardo Mayer. This is how it stands at the moment. It

:31:29. > :31:35.is all down to who can win the two sets needed in this final match. To

:31:36. > :31:41.go through against Croatia in the final. We are ready to start again.

:31:42. > :31:47.COMMENTATOR: Well, best-of-3, now.

:31:48. > :32:09.Wrong shot to come in on there, I'm afraid. Andy Murray has left the

:32:10. > :32:18.building. I'm sure he will return shortly. If the balance of power at

:32:19. > :32:22.the moment is just with Mayer, having lost that second set, Evans

:32:23. > :32:24.has got to stop this third set well. He has to hold his first service

:32:25. > :32:44.game. CHEERING.

:32:45. > :32:49.Well done. Good feel there from Dan Evans, from that first drop shot.

:32:50. > :32:57.This one here, that was a superb shot. And then anticipated well,

:32:58. > :32:58.there as well. Still had to control that ball over the highest part of

:32:59. > :35:02.the net. Vamos!. That did, too. He made that

:35:03. > :35:06.shot looks very easily. The British team on their feet, exhorting Dan

:35:07. > :35:14.Evans to greater efforts here. Because at deuce in the opening game

:35:15. > :35:19.of the third set, key moment. In the destiny of this match but obviously

:35:20. > :35:29.the tight and Great Britain's hopes of making a second consecutive

:35:30. > :35:34.final. Great Britain challenging the call on the right side. This may

:35:35. > :35:45.have drifted wide. Mayer thinks it is out.

:35:46. > :35:51.Advantage Argentina. Great Britain has two challenges remaining. Break

:35:52. > :36:20.point. That is a huge hit from Mayer and a

:36:21. > :36:26.huge blow to Dan Evans. The boy was there to be hit but -- the ball was

:36:27. > :36:36.there to be hit, and boy did he hit it. Winners came at Dan, it wasn't

:36:37. > :36:40.just like he played conservatively. You have to say, too good. He may

:36:41. > :36:46.not continue like that, but that was an excellent break of serve. The

:36:47. > :36:53.crowd sense it, as well. They are getting behind Dan, here. Fantastic

:36:54. > :37:00.crowd, their instincts are so good. They know exactly the ebb and flow.

:37:01. > :37:22.Very good indeed. It helps so much when you here that.

:37:23. > :37:31.You would think it is not possible for Mayer to keep serving this well

:37:32. > :37:35.for the next hour and a half. You would think. If he does, then his

:37:36. > :37:39.ranking, I don't know what his ranking is doing where it is,

:37:40. > :37:41.because there is no way it should be there if he continues to serve like

:37:42. > :38:07.this. CHEERING.

:38:08. > :38:15.Even without his serve, he is playing way above his ranking. Is it

:38:16. > :38:21.114, his ranking? That is laughable. Would be there for long. Makes you

:38:22. > :38:33.realise how many good tennis players there are in the world. Exactly.

:38:34. > :39:09.Argentina is challenging the call on the right baseline. Some very tight

:39:10. > :39:14.calls in this game. Hawk-Eye confirmed that serve was out that

:39:15. > :39:23.the umpire overruled. And this one...

:39:24. > :39:28.He has been a bit unlucky with those calls. That is the second one that

:39:29. > :39:53.he was in a winning position. Mind you, he is hitting the ball so

:39:54. > :40:02.hard. When you are right on the line, you are not 100% sure whether

:40:03. > :40:07.it has just caught the back edge. Not sure whether Dan Evans broke

:40:08. > :40:09.that frame, when he bounced it. Yes, he did. He will get a warning, I

:40:10. > :40:26.presume. Let's go, GB, let's go! That would

:40:27. > :40:30.have to be a very strong racket to withstand that, and in the end, it

:40:31. > :40:43.gave in. We have seen a lot worse than that over the years.

:40:44. > :41:03.If you are fans of sensational racket smashing I would draw your

:41:04. > :41:11.attention to the Australian Open about five or six year ago. A

:41:12. > :41:20.virtuoso performance by Marcos bad doctors. Dimitrov wasn't too far

:41:21. > :41:26.away this summer. I think he had no brackets left to play with! That is

:41:27. > :41:41.more than solid. And the Argentine fans are being

:41:42. > :42:14.orchestrated by the Argentine team. A big test now for Dan Evans, isn't

:42:15. > :42:43.it? They held their breath for a moment

:42:44. > :42:52.to see what Mayer was going to do there.

:42:53. > :43:25.Well, you said earlier, he has got all the shots. He has.

:43:26. > :44:03.CHEERING. Argentina leads. Emphatic nod from

:44:04. > :44:09.Dan Evans, he is still in this. People talk about it all the time,

:44:10. > :44:14.but the margins in top-level sport are so infinitesimal. A match point

:44:15. > :44:19.against Stan Wawrinka in the US Open, if he had taken that, who

:44:20. > :44:23.knows what has happened -- what would have happened? He might even

:44:24. > :44:28.have played Del Ponte wrote in the semifinal. So when opportunity does

:44:29. > :44:35.not, the great players take those chances. Absolutely. He has had a

:44:36. > :44:42.great year. I'm just wondering here, basically he's getting overpowered

:44:43. > :44:47.and the serve of Mayer has gone into a different level. Also, the ground

:44:48. > :44:51.strokes have got heavier. Mayer has cut down the errors and is forcing

:44:52. > :44:57.Dan Evans. Dan Evans is trying to stay with him and I wonder whether

:44:58. > :45:02.the backhand side, he should try and impairment more slice, try and

:45:03. > :45:06.change the rhythm. When they go toe to toe in the rallies, Mayer is

:45:07. > :45:08.coming out on top most of the time. That does not mean he will continue,

:45:09. > :45:29.but he is looking better most of the time. So maybe some

:45:30. > :45:31.variation needs to come in in the way he is stroking the ball.

:45:32. > :45:33.Particularly on the backhand side, don't go power to power, maybe. I

:45:34. > :45:36.was trying to lip-read what Leon Smith said there. It was done in a

:45:37. > :45:37.very schoolmasterly way. Dan likes to have a plan. Some players don't,

:45:38. > :45:55.but I think he does. Not much doubt about what Mayer's

:45:56. > :46:00.planning is. I think he should just change it up a little, moved to one

:46:01. > :46:17.side or the other, rather than stand in one place.

:46:18. > :47:07.The Argentine is in a very comfortable groove at the moment.

:47:08. > :47:13.Kyle Edmund watches on. He would love to be playing in this deciding

:47:14. > :47:32.tie. The big decision by the captain,

:47:33. > :47:38.Leon Smith, to give Dan Evans the opportunity. When you see these type

:47:39. > :47:44.of service coming now, you want to be compared to Andy Murray, he is

:47:45. > :47:50.the best, but a lot of those returns somehow with Andy Murray find a way

:47:51. > :47:54.to get back, he seems to read them quicker than a normal person. Dani

:47:55. > :48:01.Estrada in, but he isn't making enough. -- Dan is trying. Not many

:48:02. > :48:33.people would, but Andy Murray would. Well played Dan Evans. You almost

:48:34. > :48:39.sounds Mayer's first serve could be the deciding factor in this match.

:48:40. > :48:44.He has been getting 2-3 cheap points every service game. That puts so

:48:45. > :48:46.much pressure on Dan Evans holding his serve when that comes at you

:48:47. > :49:04.every game. 11 aces now, but it is not just the

:49:05. > :49:12.aces. There are a lot of unplayable first serves, too. Acting it up well

:49:13. > :49:16.when he has to, when Dan does get the ball back, his second strike is

:49:17. > :49:18.very good at the moment. He was missing those at the beginning of

:49:19. > :50:00.the set, but not now. He is sweating a bit, Dan, and it is

:50:01. > :50:03.hot in this studio. With 8500 people baying, it is very hot out on court

:50:04. > :50:10.as well. He even found a sweatband that

:50:11. > :50:36.matches the shoes! Impressive. That is the pressure that Mayer has

:50:37. > :50:41.put on him, he thinks he has to get ahead in these rallies, going a lot

:50:42. > :50:52.on that first shot. Being knocked out of his rhythm.

:50:53. > :51:07.So good, well played! Big fist pump, huge cheer. He has to keep this

:51:08. > :51:16.break down to one break, not two. What a point.

:51:17. > :51:23.Flashing yellow wristband, and a yellow ball.

:51:24. > :51:32.That was the first bad volley. He is doing what he should have done. His

:51:33. > :51:36.body was bright online volley, didn't stay low, eyes were not level

:51:37. > :51:50.with the ball. It is all a bit rushed.

:51:51. > :51:52.This is when you have got to embrace the atmosphere, but also stay

:51:53. > :52:06.removed from it. That is just too good, sorry. That

:52:07. > :52:12.was 102 mph serve, decent placement out wide. And he socks a winner like

:52:13. > :52:52.that. That is just too good. Well, Mayer probably feels that he

:52:53. > :52:54.is hitting the ball so well and seeing it so big, he can go for

:52:55. > :53:55.shots like that at the moment. He has to slow down here, Dan Evans,

:53:56. > :53:59.he tends to be very quick between points. He just served a double

:54:00. > :54:03.fault, has to regroup, pick his target, visualise where he is going

:54:04. > :54:07.to hit it. He is rushing on his first serves.

:54:08. > :54:46.Will, the Great Britain support team gets ever more frenzied as the

:54:47. > :54:51.pressure mounts on Dan Evans. Because here is a chance for

:54:52. > :55:11.Argentina to take a real hold on this deciding tie.

:55:12. > :55:18.And they do. And the 400 or so Argentinian fans are the ones making

:55:19. > :55:24.the noise now. This is when Dan Evans needs the other 8500 to come

:55:25. > :55:28.to his aid a bit. He needs Leon Smith more than anybody right now.

:55:29. > :55:33.He needs to be a calming presence here. You can see it a mile off

:55:34. > :55:39.here, he is forcing the issue too much now. There is a slight bit of

:55:40. > :55:42.panic in his game. You can see it on the serve, he is Russian, not

:55:43. > :55:47.getting many Serbs in, he is trying from quick points, because he is

:55:48. > :55:53.being forced back by the quick play of Mayer. But he is feeding into his

:55:54. > :55:57.rhythm, and he has to somehow try to get this down a bit, get back to

:55:58. > :56:04.what makes Dan Evans the player he is, the variety. At the moment, it

:56:05. > :56:06.is one place, and he is going up against someone who is hitting

:56:07. > :56:11.harder than he is serving better than he is, and he has to get him

:56:12. > :56:16.out of that rhythm somehow. At the moment, there is panic in his game

:56:17. > :56:22.and he has to stop this right now. It may be too late in this set. So,

:56:23. > :56:28.for Leon Smith, that was a very important changeover right there.

:56:29. > :56:33.He can't bank on Mayer's level dropping. I'm not saying he should

:56:34. > :56:36.go out and pushed the ball, but there are constructive ways of

:56:37. > :56:40.variety instead of trying to muscle his way back, and that is what it

:56:41. > :56:45.looks to me like he's trying to do at the moment, particularly the

:56:46. > :56:57.serve. Easy from up here, obviously, not on the court.

:56:58. > :57:03.But that is a bit what we were saying earlier on about Dan Evans'

:57:04. > :57:08.physique, this is a welterweight against a cruiserweight, and if you

:57:09. > :57:13.are in that position, you can't trade blow for blow, you have to

:57:14. > :57:21.find other ways. As Dan Evans did against Wawrinka, he did other

:57:22. > :57:30.things. And his opponent is not Wawrinka. He is good, but he's not

:57:31. > :57:37.that good. He needs to find other ways to win this match.

:57:38. > :57:39.Trying too hard. It is all forced, how am I going to win this point

:57:40. > :58:06.quickly? Andy Murray has returned. He needs

:58:07. > :58:10.to somehow by thought transference send some wise words to Dan Evans at

:58:11. > :58:14.the moment. He will do when he comes down the side of the court, I'm sure

:58:15. > :58:23.Andy will be shouting at him, and Dan will listen.

:58:24. > :58:28.That game came and went in the blink of an eye. It is going far too

:58:29. > :58:41.quickly now. And the optimism of that first set,

:58:42. > :58:44.when Dan Evans played it so well, it is only an hour ago, but it feels

:58:45. > :00:03.like an eternity at the moment. That serve was only 109, but he got

:00:04. > :00:24.his serving. Slightly manic, desperate cheer from

:00:25. > :00:30.the crowd there to get Dan Evans back into this.

:00:31. > :00:38.But that was a better game in the round. He served better, got some

:00:39. > :00:40.first serves in, didn't have to do that much because his opponent

:00:41. > :00:46.finally missed a couple of shots with a two - break lead. There

:00:47. > :00:59.wasn't that much thought pattern going into Mayer's game, but he, you

:01:00. > :01:04.can see here obviously this is where Leon just has to calm him down, he

:01:05. > :01:08.is flustered, he is panicking. It is easy to do when you are getting

:01:09. > :01:11.hammered by your opponent who is suddenly playing out of his mind,

:01:12. > :01:15.and you don't know how to stem the tide, and it is easy for us to say

:01:16. > :01:22.that, but he has to go back to basics for awhile. More balls back,

:01:23. > :01:26.calm it down a bit, use his variety. Bring him into the net, hit some

:01:27. > :01:30.short balls, hit that heavy slice, maybe slow the first serve down a

:01:31. > :01:37.few times to make sure you get it in. I'm sure if you have invested 14

:01:38. > :01:40.or 15 hours of your time into this Davis Cup semifinal, and it has been

:01:41. > :01:44.engrossing from the first ball at one o'clock on Friday, you won't

:01:45. > :01:48.want to miss the end, so we are heading to BBC Two in a couple of

:01:49. > :02:01.moments, so you will need to hit your remote.

:02:02. > :02:17.UMPIRE: Great Britain are challenging the call on the left

:02:18. > :02:22.sideline. I think Dan Evans looked Andy Murray to see if he should

:02:23. > :02:29.appeal, and he got the nod. Let's see if it was correct.

:02:30. > :02:31.Hawk-Eye is exhausted, too. You decide! Do it on a phone vote. He

:02:32. > :02:38.got it. UMPIRE: Great Britain has one

:02:39. > :03:11.challenge remaining. That is a magnificent second serve,

:03:12. > :03:15.that is all you can say about that. You could see Dan Evans moving up on

:03:16. > :03:24.that serve to try to do something on it, and that came in at a ferocious

:03:25. > :03:25.pace. The timing mechanism didn't work, but that was a huge second

:03:26. > :03:35.serve. And that is what Andy was doing in

:03:36. > :03:39.the match earlier today, big second serves. What a rhythm he has got on

:03:40. > :04:38.his serve. SUE BARKER: At this point we welcome

:04:39. > :04:44.viewers on BBC Two. Dan Evans is playing Leonardo Mayer, and the

:04:45. > :04:45.winner of this match will go through to the final of the Davis Cup.