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COMMENTATOR: Great Britain have done it in the most suspect secular | :00:11. | :01:02. | |
style! -- spectacular. It was one of the most glorious days in British | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
sporting history, winning the Davis Cup for the first time in many many | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
years. They were semifinalist last year and today they start their | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
campaign in Ottowa, against Canada. Before we look ahead of that tie, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
let's see the draw... No Roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka | :01:26. | :01:50. | |
for Switzerland. Front look as though they could go forward and | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
meet the winner of Canada versus Great Britain. Though the Djokovic | :01:56. | :02:09. | |
the only player in the Davis Cup from the top ten. Leading the team | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
from great writ is Dan Evans and Kyle Edmund, who has been growing | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
with confidence and experience over the past three years. Plenty of | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
experience in the doubles on both sides of the net. Let's see what the | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
captain, Leon Smith, feels about the tie ahead. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
In the singles front, it looks like we are favourite in the Davis Cup | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
rankings do not mean an awful lot with the crowd and the courts. They | :02:55. | :03:06. | |
have played well at the slams over five steps and they now have Davis | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Cup experience. He sounds very positive. John, you know what it is | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
like in the captain 's jet but now suddenly, Leon Smith has a couple of | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
world-class players without Andy Murray. Who thought that would have | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
happened. It is good because sometimes Andy cannot play and it is | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
good to have backup. We could conceivably keep winning with Davis | :03:40. | :03:51. | |
Cup. For the doubles, Jamie Murray and Dominic Inglot very good. Andy | :03:52. | :04:04. | |
is aiming to win everything he can in the game. Jamie has been very | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
consistent in the big doubles matches but they have lifted the | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
bar. Fantastic to have two players in the top 50. They have a lot of | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
tennis ahead of them. They could be challenging for many years to come. | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
Up against a 17 or old, familiar face from Wimbledon who won the | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
junior at Wimbledon. A name we are going to look forward to for years | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
to come. Denis Shapovalov. When he learns to harness those weapons, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
which he should, he will be a big talent. He is fearless. He will | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
learn to temper it it a little bit but he is exciting and a great Balde | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
striker and he will be very good. We expected to bring you the first time | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
but in fact it has been completed and Dan Evans won it in straight | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
sets. Shapovalov showed some potential | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
with the serving and big hitting but Dan Evans was unstoppable. The | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
consistency and experience. Breakpoint, Shapovalov, really doing | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the right thing but Evans showing the right thing. After he got a | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
head, when he got the break, he never looked back. It was a very | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
controlled performance. Well done to Dan Evans because of the pressure | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
was on. It was a must win match and we have all been in that situation | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
and no how much pressure that is. I thought he played superbly well, he | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
went up against an unknown, yes, he has played against them in a match | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
challenge last year but he is number one in the country in terms of this | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Davis Cup and I thought he was very professional. He never let his | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
opponent get into the match. He looked like a controlled player stop | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
a player who knows his strengths, knows that to play the game and very | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
strong. You would think it was a home tie. | :06:37. | :06:48. | |
Only a few hundred there but they are making their presence felt. A | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
difficult and strong player as well the opponent for Kyle Edmund? Vasek | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
Pospisil will present a lot of problems. He likes a fast court and | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
he will come forward. He has had success in the doubles court winning | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Wimbledon a couple of years ago. If he was to pick his favourite | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
surface, Kyle Edmund, he would not this one. He is more of a favourite | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
now because in the first set, Vasek Pospisil held his serve and | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
immediately called the trainer. This is really worrying for the Canadian | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
team because of this is their must win match. Absolutely, they need to | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
win this match and the doubles. He has had the trainer on twice | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
already, not a good sign and you do not like to see this. Surprising in | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
the way it happened. This is not a good situation. That was the | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
situation just a few games ago. We are heading towards the end of | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
there have been a few breakpoint. John and Jamie thank you very much. | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
John is on the way to the commentary box. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
And even sided fan. He is aware of the leg, not sure it is much more | :08:23. | :09:06. | |
than an eagle. -- niggle. First set pretty big, you would imagine for | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
this man. Playing at home. Great Britain one rather to love. -- | :09:12. | :09:25. | |
rubber. Kyle Edmund has a bit of freedom knowing that Great Britain | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
are one up. Lots of chatter, quite a contrast. UMPIRE: Time.. Scoreboard | :09:36. | :09:53. | |
pressure for Kyle Edmund to deal with here. Serving to stay in this | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
opening set. He moved so well for a man at six | :09:59. | :10:13. | |
foot four. Very awkward for Edmund. Good defence. Pospisil has stolen | :10:14. | :13:06. | |
the opening set, 6-4. 43 minutes. How quickly things can turn around. | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
He looked so solid on serve, Kyle Edmund. It looked like classic | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
scoreboard pressure. A few points were Kyle Edmund made errors early | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
in the point where as if it was on a slightly more medium pace the court | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
he would not have made that mistake. Every ball you are expected to do | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
something here just in case your opponent does. Jamie, when the | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
surface is so different. Melbourne was so quick, quicker than it has | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
been for years. This is another to step faster. It is freezing outside, | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
hot inside this arena, but totally different environment. Don't forget, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
they would have been there at least a week so they have had some time to | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
get used to it full and British weather is not exactly amazing so we | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
are also used to playing indoors as well so I guess that is our natural | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
game has developed indoors. What is happening here is quite simply Kyle | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
Edmund's game, the way he plays, it is quite difficult for him to be as | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
effective on this court. Whereas Pospisil, he knows that the court is | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
utilising his strengths. Just the four winners. Even though he has had | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
the medical timeout and further rubdown on the knee, he looks to be | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
moving fine. He is going to be a hand will on this surface. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Especially now that he's one set up. Kyle doesn't look like he has broken | :15:01. | :16:07. | |
sweat yet. He is definitely not pushing off | :16:08. | :17:30. | |
freely on his left leg, off the serve.. | :17:31. | :17:51. | |
There is a lot of tennis to be played in this match. Let alone the | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
rest of the weekend. Gave him half a chance and Edmund | :18:00. | :18:13. | |
took it with both hands. What a pass that was. This could well be the | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
moment that just sparks a little bit of extra energy into Kyle Edmund. | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
Certainly the pressure has come on. 40- zero to deuce. | :18:34. | :18:47. | |
And important hold and he keeps momentum. A tough game. | :18:48. | :20:35. | |
Just looks concerned, in the conversation, there. I guess about | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
the leg. I definitely think something has happened. He is not | :20:47. | :21:14. | |
100%. Hands on hips. Boy, it is day one and he has to win three rubbers | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
this weekend. He is literally tip toeing around | :21:20. | :21:32. | |
the court. Never easy when you know something | :21:33. | :22:15. | |
is going on down at the other end but not sure what. | :22:16. | :22:46. | |
He has backed off on the returns and now he is backing off on the server. | :22:47. | :22:58. | |
That is a way of finding some rhythm and build confidence. He really | :22:59. | :23:18. | |
needs to hold here with his opponent ailing. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
He cannot push off, he cannot run. Kyle Edmund obviously aware of that | :23:25. | :23:40. | |
stop rubbing his hands together. That is probably the best second | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
serve he has hit. Jumped out of court. | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
He would have challenged the call came late. Second double fault of | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
the game. Breakpoint. A great response from Edmund. He | :24:07. | :24:33. | |
needs to get fired up. APPLAUSE. | :24:34. | :25:13. | |
He can't believe it. He just can't believe it. UMPIRE: Please do not | :25:14. | :25:26. | |
make any comments between the first and second set. Thank you. | :25:27. | :25:44. | |
Such a big game. It is a big serve, on a big point. This is where the | :25:45. | :26:50. | |
bench and the captain is important. He looks like he is definitely | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
disrupted by what's going on. Similar to what happened to Federer | :26:53. | :27:11. | |
in the semi-final against Wawrinka. Wawrinka left the court with a knee | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
injury and he came back with it taped and Federer couldn't deal with | :27:19. | :27:19. | |
it for two sets. Well, two minutes Sharp now in | :27:20. | :27:37. | |
levels and that was pretty big because a breakdown, with a man | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
effectively on one leg, it makes the journey that much longer already. | :27:45. | :28:37. | |
You've got one of those at home. Not of myself. | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
First love service game. All eyes on this man. Six feet four, 193 | :28:45. | :29:31. | |
centimetres. We were talking about how the players these days seem to | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
be getting slimmer and slimmer. He is still strong and thickset. He is | :29:35. | :29:45. | |
a strong guy. He has the old serve volley build. Even if he was 100% of | :29:46. | :29:55. | |
wood expect him to come forward. I would be amazed if we didn't see two | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
or three points where he served the volley. You can see in the last game | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
he is very natural and he knows when to put face on and face. A lot of | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
doubles that really helps with that. Kyle Edmund will feel uncomfortable | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
with that. Certainly on his backhand side. How tough is it to play | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
against someone you know is carrying an injury. It is the focus side. | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
Really difficult. In this situation it's a massive match, a World Group, | :30:27. | :30:33. | |
and it is on a court surface where if it is just a bit of a twig or | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
annoyance actually the court surface allows you to get away with it. If | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
this was on a slow outdoor hardcourt, where it is 35 degrees | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
and 30 stroke rallies every time you can't get away with it. But here, | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
Kyle Edmund will still have to find a way to alt play his opponent on | :30:54. | :31:05. | |
this court. That's a good start. It plays on your mind even more. A test | :31:06. | :31:12. | |
of character for Edmund. Even when he has time on the | :31:13. | :31:42. | |
forehand he doesn't look as settled as you would normally see. | :31:43. | :32:20. | |
APPLAUSE. That's the difficulty here. Vasek Pospisil just uses the | :32:21. | :33:23. | |
pace and serve and gets really deep in return. It doesn't matter what's | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
going on the other end, it is cut shot on this court to do anything | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
with. -- tough shot. Sets up another break point. | :33:35. | :34:03. | |
He is clearly targeting the big weapon of Edmund to good effect. A | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
set, 3-1. 20 minutes ago I was saying goes | :34:09. | :34:18. | |
longer exchanges, Edmund was winning. Well, that's the best one | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
Pospisil has played so far and what a big point that was. | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
Adrenaline is a good thing too. He has got plenty of that today. | :34:34. | :35:10. | |
Edmund must be hoping he plays the backhand more. How often has Edmund | :35:11. | :35:32. | |
thought that, if he is? He is quick, isn't he? His two best | :35:33. | :36:52. | |
moment so far have been two forehand passing shots. The speed in his arm | :36:53. | :37:03. | |
is just a flick of the rest -- wrist. | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
APPLAUSE. 26 out of the last seven games. Since the medical timeout. | :37:11. | :38:12. | |
It is amazing what the Davis Cup can do for you. | :38:13. | :38:24. | |
No real surprises. Second serves mainly going into the Edmund | :38:25. | :38:40. | |
backhand. Sometimes it takes just one win to turn your fortunes | :38:41. | :38:47. | |
around. We talked about his year last year, a poor start to this | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
year. Hardly winning a match, losing the first round of a challenge | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
coming in here. I think mentally for him absolutely that would be huge. I | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
think there's a lot of tennis even still in this match to be played and | :39:02. | :39:08. | |
Edmund will be trying to find a solution. I think if there's one | :39:09. | :39:17. | |
perhaps question mark around his game, it would be the times I've | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
seen him when a match has gone in a particular direction, a pattern, | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
Kyle Edmund has struggled to do much to turn it around. I think this is a | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
massive challenge for him right here. He's got the ability to do it, | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
I just wonder... It's a question of unlocking something in his mind. | :39:37. | :40:47. | |
He hardly moved in that point. Dominated the centre of the court. | :40:48. | :40:59. | |
Reminds me of Andre Agassi towards the end of his playing days. Justice | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
dams and moves you around, almost like a squash player. | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
Still struggling with that puzzle we talked about, Edmund. | :41:13. | :41:43. | |
APPLAUSE. He is confused. Enough to break | :41:44. | :41:51. | |
point -- not enough. That's amazing, what we're seeing | :41:52. | :42:09. | |
here. It really is. 5-1. Kyle Edmund has taken on games | :42:10. | :42:29. | |
in the medical timeout. The very next one! After that break. | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
So much of this game is in the mind. Especially when you get to the | :42:41. | :42:48. | |
higher level, like these guys are out. Similar abilities. OK, | :42:49. | :42:58. | |
different styles, but the margins... If you go inside the headspace of | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
Pospisil and Edmund you would see some very different things at the | :43:03. | :43:04. | |
moment. The credit Pospisil is doing here, | :43:05. | :43:20. | |
he is doing it so well. As John Lloyd said earlier, when you | :43:21. | :43:40. | |
have home advantage you dock of the court to your best possible | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
advantage. -- doctor the court. That's what they are showing in this | :43:46. | :43:47. | |
matchup. Eight out of the last nine games. He | :43:48. | :44:28. | |
is on the verge of that with three set points. Two sets to love lead. | :44:29. | :44:55. | |
Holds to love. Canada. Two set up. It just got a whole lot harder for | :44:56. | :45:16. | |
Kyle Edmund. What does Leon Smith say right now do you think west for | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
me there's one simple instant tactical shift that you can make | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
straightaway. Kyle Edmund with his forehand loves, when he is in his | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
own forehand corner, he loves to pull the ball across court into the | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
opponent's forehand. And then he also loves to go inside in with the | :45:40. | :45:45. | |
forehand. Well, Pospisil's best shot is his forehand. He needs to start | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
getting onto the Foran. Whether that means unique to get into the net, I | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
don't know. But he needs to get into the opponent's weakness. Kyle Edmund | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
needs to win from two sets behind. I'm watching in the studio. John, | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
Lee Yon is trying to get through, trying to turn this match around. | :46:04. | :46:12. | |
But he is making all sorts of areas and miss hitting shots. Yes, he is | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
playing an awful match at the moment, Kyle Edmund. What's | :46:20. | :46:22. | |
surprising is he has come such a long way. Just look at, 45, he has | :46:23. | :46:31. | |
to get that up. And one unforced error to 11. That's where he is | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
losing. And also four winners. Kyle Edmund usually hits four winners of | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
his forehand aunties and finding it on this course. He hasn't adjusted | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
to the speed of the court at all. For me there's no presence with Kyle | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
Edmund. He looks like he has gone into this shell and for this | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
experienced player, he has played a lot of matches and is ranked in the | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
top if we, there should be more than AMP -- more of an imposing look | :47:00. | :47:06. | |
about him. Smith has said a lot of stuff. He has got to get together | :47:07. | :47:08. | |
quickly. Yes, time is running out. So important for Kyle Edmund to keep | :47:09. | :47:21. | |
holding his own serve and start pushing the scoreboard, finding a | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
way back into this match. You saw him jog, Pospisil. He has | :47:25. | :48:51. | |
been taking some sort of anti-inflammatory or some sort of | :48:52. | :48:56. | |
medication, is it easing the pain? To set up certainly will. -- two | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
sets. He has still only lost two points | :49:03. | :49:40. | |
behind his second serve. Dan Evans on his way back courtside. It did | :49:41. | :49:47. | |
look long. You can imagine Andy Murray on a | :49:48. | :51:16. | |
quick court like this may be reverting to block returned just to | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
get a lot of balls back. You rarely see that type of flexibility from | :51:21. | :51:38. | |
Edmund. It is a fair point. Just get into the point somehow. The point | :51:39. | :51:46. | |
about using his forehand and getting into Pospisil's back, for me that's | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
quite a basic thing he needs to do and I take the point that you want | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
to play to your strengths, but if your strengths aren't working a | :51:57. | :51:58. | |
massive part of this game is actually turning that on its head | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
and starting to think, OK, I know what I do well, what does he not | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
want me to do? Have to think of it like that and I don't think much of | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
going on right now. If he is going to get higher up that | :52:12. | :52:39. | |
ranking ladder, he is 47 now, that's a must do. For me that's the next | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
step for him. I think that would take a different level again. | :52:46. | :52:57. | |
He is moving freely now, Pospisil. This match is slipping away very | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
quickly from Great Britain. No wonder his cheeks are read! -- | :53:04. | :53:14. | |
red! What a fascinating point that was. | :53:15. | :53:45. | |
Pospisil could not have set that up any better. Just a lack of a split | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
stick at the wrong time. Fair play for Edmund for sticking in. | :53:53. | :54:04. | |
He was putting all of that weight on the right leg. The left leg is the | :54:05. | :54:15. | |
trouble leg. Protecting it as best he can | :54:16. | :54:50. | |
The defensive shot he hit back, that is what you are looking at on the | :54:51. | :55:03. | |
return. Below the height of the net, that is the shot you want to hit. | :55:04. | :55:19. | |
Four points in a row, how timely is that? Just keeps a bit of a Davon on | :55:20. | :55:28. | |
the crowd. Fighting to survive, here, Edmund. Interesting point to | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
make, when things are going against it technically, he does not seem to | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
be able to switch things up. How is the going to be able to develop | :55:40. | :55:46. | |
that? It seems it is my way or the highway. It is subtle. You make a | :55:47. | :55:53. | |
good point. In this situation, something not working, he will not | :55:54. | :56:01. | |
start serve and bowling or chip charging, it is not something as | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
extreme as that. It is a subtle shift in mind. You need to do | :56:07. | :56:15. | |
something. It is not a question of me continuing down the path and | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
doing it better and thinking it will be OK. This is not quite working, | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
why don't I try blocking a few returns. This time I'm going to | :56:28. | :56:33. | |
choose a different ball flight. It is subtle things like that which | :56:34. | :56:41. | |
Andy Murray is the world 's best at that, perhaps ever. He was not in | :56:42. | :56:52. | |
Australia against there of but it is a rarity. -- Kverev. | :56:53. | :57:16. | |
It speed off the line. On this court, it does not need much | :57:17. | :57:23. | |
encouragement. It has been phenomenal, the pace of | :57:24. | :58:32. | |
the matches. Obviously, that court is quick no one is hanging around. | :58:33. | :58:41. | |
It is great to see. You need to keep warm. LAUGHTER. It is minus 14. They | :58:42. | :58:51. | |
skate to work on the can now which is completely frozen over! -- Canal. | :58:52. | :59:02. | |
You need to worry about where you park your car. | :59:03. | :00:06. | |
He has really struggled with that quick one. Pushed for time. Pospisil | :00:07. | :00:18. | |
has had a lot of success with that shot. | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
He has no support from any other players for the final of the Davis | :00:31. | :00:43. | |
Cup was put it on neutral ground. No atmosphere, potentially and then who | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
doctors the court? All the things that need to be really discussed, | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
that is not one of them. Agreed. Ouch. 163 kilometres per hour and | :00:52. | :02:14. | |
the return missed by quite a way. You do not have much time to get out | :02:15. | :02:29. | |
of the way, do you? It makes you seat, if Raonic was here, you'd have | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
to be wearing Armagh. That would be the ultimate message, it is hard to | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
make a cannot see any obvious plan to get back into this match but I | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
think the main thing is you have the opportunity. You can keep your nose | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
in front. Your number one job is to keep in that position as long as you | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
can and you can turn to the best of five sets around, one step and then | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
the next step. Leon Smith has been his captain for his career on the | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
Davis Cup. He is getting to know Kyle Edmund. Obviously, heavily | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
involved in British tennis. Leon Smith, knowing your player, knowing | :03:27. | :03:39. | |
when to speak, what they can take in. He is becoming a great captain. | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
Pospisil, to set up, 2-3 down in the third. | :03:51. | :04:18. | |
This is just the third time he has had the head start on a macro to -- | :04:19. | :04:31. | |
Pospisil service game. Over 30 unforced errors from Edmund, | :04:32. | :05:39. | |
now. He has only lost eight points on | :05:40. | :06:28. | |
serve. He has been a really relax, really smooth. It has felt like he | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
is continually putting the pressure back on Edmund. See what you can do, | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
can you hold? He has been buying time for a while, Edmund, but there | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
is not a lot left. For me, I do not understand that | :06:50. | :07:07. | |
shot. It is going back to the strength of the opponent and he has | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
missed by ten feet. He has been doing that full past 1.5 hours, | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
change it. They can be stubborn some of these players. Especially when | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
you are good and they are very good players. | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
Everytime he plays the way you suggest, he gets results. Is this | :07:40. | :07:56. | |
another .1 or how he wondered, how will he see it? | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
Can you imagine how many matches that woman has watched? ! | :08:06. | :08:57. | |
Look at the trouble he has had controlling that serve on the | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
backhand side. Makes an awful lot of sense from | :09:02. | :09:19. | |
here. He is taking care of his serve, pushing that scoreboard. It | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
does not take much to turn a match around, especially a five set match. | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
Momentum is important. Edmund is doing a great job in this set of | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
keeping the lead on the scoreboard, holding his serve. I think, | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
certainly since the first half-hour, if Pospisil was to lose these serve, | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
that would be a great momentum change. This is his chance to win | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
the match. He has been on top for a long period of time. Communication | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
from the captain this time not there. Just giving him some space. | :10:13. | :10:33. | |
7000 seats, the first time tennis has been held in this arena. | :10:34. | :11:11. | |
Not getting much of a look in, Kyle Edmund. Zero from three in the | :11:12. | :11:48. | |
breakpoints. A new set of balls. He needs to get | :11:49. | :12:03. | |
that first Serbian. -- serve in. His confidence has grown in this | :12:04. | :14:11. | |
match. That was almost exactly the same as the first point on this | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
match. Huge power on that forehand. He is so feet. -- fit. He has really | :14:15. | :14:50. | |
had trouble with cramps but he is really looking at how he can prevent | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
that. Leaving no stone unturned, Edmund. | :15:00. | :15:23. | |
Can the scoreboard help Great Britain here? Pospisil will serve to | :15:24. | :15:38. | |
stay in this third set. LAUGHTER. The support Britain have had over | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
the years is phenomenal. What a ride we have had over the last couple of | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
years. I imagine a lot of people will see, with the crowd support, | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
all the great matches they have seen, Great Britain lifting the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
trophy. That weekend was one of the best tennis experiences I have had | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
in my life. That diehard tennis, the atmosphere was incredible. It really | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
was. I did not see much dancing like that. That was a plus. LAUGHTER He | :16:24. | :16:43. | |
has pretty much had this match his own way, Pospisil. | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
Business as usual. He is finding that tea on both the juice and add | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
court. -- deuce. Edmund has not hit a ball yet, in | :17:01. | :17:31. | |
this game. He was either just being stubborn a | :17:32. | :18:17. | |
gang war he is not focusing on the play you have highlighted a while | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
ago. An obvious chance there again, also the top stay in the point. You | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
cannot hurt Kyle Edmund from deep in the backhand corner. It has very | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
quickly flashed like, your chance is gone. -- flashed by. 16th ace. | :18:38. | :18:55. | |
No more challenges for Edmund. If they reach a tie-break, he will | :18:56. | :19:31. | |
receive an extra one. Good to see some animation from | :19:32. | :22:09. | |
Edmund in the last two points. He found a good first serve, a mentally | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
tough point at Love 30. He is fabulous! You can say his leg | :22:13. | :23:19. | |
is better. Definitely one of the best point of the match. Especially | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
from the baseline, Pospisil was so quick to get around to use his | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
forehand and Edmund was in trouble. Deep second serve. Skidded off the | :23:28. | :23:55. | |
line. Oh, my God, that is huge. Huge. | :23:56. | :24:36. | |
Terrific hold from 0- 30. He is hanging in by the capital H. She | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
fended off a lot of energy and heat from Pospisil. That last point... | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
The other thing about going back to the backhand, that was a great shot | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
but he was also just hitting the ball back in the direction that it | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
came. You see how his hitting it straight back, not changing | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
direction. If you change direction it makes the shot doubly difficult | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
and more errors come of it. But he has not made many inroads into the | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
service game. If he gets a second serve, it might be worth coming into | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
the net. Can you imagine the effect it would have on Pospisil? It seems | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
to be a modern day thing. If they are not returning that great, they | :25:41. | :25:52. | |
are loaded to change the position. Pospisil serving to stay in the set | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
once again. There is the block return you called | :25:55. | :26:34. | |
for. The pressure of the scoreboard, it was enough. | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
The mood has suddenly changed in the arena. | :26:45. | :27:26. | |
He has just about hung on to. Oh. That was tricky. It was. Edmund did | :27:27. | :28:05. | |
well to get that serve back. It was a very good serve. Pospisil just | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
held it on his racquet. This is high quality ten ish. Such | :28:10. | :29:33. | |
an important time as well. -- tennis. Pospisil will do nothing | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
more than just holding his position at the net. Very clever. | :29:38. | :29:50. | |
On the two hour mark, ace number 8 comes down. It will be a tighter | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
break to settle this third set. He gets the challenge back. Pospisil | :29:59. | :30:14. | |
has four. He is very close to 90% of his first | :30:15. | :32:17. | |
receives, Pospisil. He is 70% behind in his second. | :32:18. | :32:26. | |
Is that on the line? We'll have a look. | :32:27. | :32:41. | |
He went after him there, Pospisil to give it the effect. When he broke... | :32:42. | :33:24. | |
When you add that intent on that point from Pospisil to punish the | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
end in the second serve. Add that on to a couple of big serves with his | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
record, it will be very difficult for Edmund. The next two points are | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
crucial. We have been hearing that noise from | :33:39. | :33:57. | |
him very early on in the match. The first round in Doha. He won a couple | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
of matches. First round of a challenger coming in to this Davis | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
Cup first round. You would think that last year as well, he lost in | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
the first round of tournaments 14 times. | :34:13. | :34:23. | |
He is very close to getting a win here. | :34:24. | :34:41. | |
Four match points for Vasek Pospisil. | :34:42. | :35:54. | |
The way he has been serving, he has got two points, the tie is level. | :35:55. | :37:03. | |
Two hours and 8 minutes of very impressive tennis, especially on the | :37:04. | :37:16. | |
serve for Pospisil. As devastating as Dan Evans was in the first match, | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
it has been reversed. They are 1-1. It wasn't looking good that first | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
half hour. It looked like he may have picked up a bit of an injury. | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
That's a distant memory now. I felt like he had more of a plan on the | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
court. Obviously he executed his game plan very well. The court | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
suited him better but you can't really argue with that result. He | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
played the better tennis and he deserved the win. A quick exit from | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
Edmund. He did try to block that return to get it into the play but | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
he left it a bit late before he was prepared to go outside of his own | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
A-game if you like. It was a learning curve for the youngster. I | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
think you look the way the first set went, it was the middle of the | :38:07. | :38:13. | |
second set that got away far too quickly. That is a very difficult | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
ask against anyone. Hopefully we will hear from | :38:18. | :38:38. | |
Pospisil. He will besite of course that's for sure. He served really | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
well. It was outstanding. 86% for points run behind his first second. | :38:47. | :38:57. | |
70% behind his second. Saved all three break points. It's a | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
tremendous in how Davis Cup can turn your fortunes around. It's one | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
rubber apiece. He certainly certainly turned his form around as | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
well. A very disappointing 2016, then he has come out firing. So | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
solid there, 88% of first serves in. I am not sure we are going to hear | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
this. There we are, so we will have our interview with Vasek, hopefully | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
we will hear from Leon Smith as well. 1-1, at the end of the day, a | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
wonderful performance from Dan Evans who defeated the 17-year-old from | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
Canada, 6 hn 3 -- 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. 1 all, we will be back for the doubles | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
on BBC Two. This is the world group as it stands at the end of the | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
opening day. Still one match to be completed. That's the United States | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
against Switzerland but Italy are two up against Argentina, German and | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
Belgium, Australia is two up. Jack Sock has put the US up but John | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
Isner has dropped the first set. Japan, are trailing 2-0 to France, | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
and Canada and Great Britain one all. Certificate Victoria, with | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
Novak Djokovic, two up against Russia and Croatia, 1-1 against | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
Spain. So, raise /*. John, let's get your thoughts on that match. We were | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
talking about how inconsistent in some ways that Kyle was looked. He | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
looked rushed. He didn't have any time on the ball. It didn'tly didn't | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
suit him. It was that -- it didn't suit him. It was that second set | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
that went away. Just watching the way he played. Somebody of his | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
ability, top 50 player, OK, he hasn't been playing that long on the | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
circuit but he had a enough experience now, that he should have | :41:09. | :41:11. | |
been able to hang in more on his serve. At least manage his serve. He | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
has playing against a player who has no confidence. His record has been | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
dreadful. You kind of sort of gut it out a little bit and show some | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
presence out there for somebody who is ranked as high as he. Is he | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
looked like the player who was bereft of confidence. Pospisil just | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
looked like he won the grand slam at the Australian Open. I thought his | :41:37. | :41:39. | |
attitude was not great today. It's difficult though when it's not your | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
sort of personality to puff your chest out, fist pump and everything | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
but you felt that he needed to do that, Pospisil was getting the crowd | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
behind him and he was jumping up and down and high fiving everybody. You | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
wanted Kyle to give something to his fans and his team-mates. As He is | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
top 50 now, that match really highlighted probably the one thing | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
in his game that I feel he needs to improve to go to the next level. At | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
the moment, there isn't a plan B at all. If the - the few times I have | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
seen him where he has come up against a player where the match-up | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
isn't too good or the court surface doesn't quite suit him. He wasn't -- | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
he hasn't found a way where he can take a step back and he needs to do | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
something else. You can change that by getting yourself into the match. | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
Just one or two points can turn it around by getting involved a little | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
bit more. You are right. Pospisil, you could tell from the first or | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
second game. He was struggling to hold serve. I was almost thinking, | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
are you burning too much energiserly on. Kyle Edmund didn't say a thing | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
the whole time almost. I think it's tactics, his tactics were wrong as | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
well. I know he favours going inside in and pulling a forehand across | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
court. But Pospisil is so one sided, his forehand is so much better than | :43:07. | :43:16. | |
his backhand, every time Kyle went into Pospisil's forehand. He was | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
missing. Kyle fans look away now because here are a couple of | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
illustrations of just how poor Edmund was today. Thses are not just | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
-- these are not just forced errors, I haven't seen Kyle make errors like | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
this for a long time. His forehand is known as a big weapon, world | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
class but today, his forehand was not. Pospisil has a good forehand. I | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
thought the match-up with favour Kyle, the speed of the court, maybe | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
not but it was one sided. Kyle's forehand today, that's his go shot, | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
there were so many errors coming from places. He was rushed a bit | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
here and there. There were basic errors coming in. He looked somebody | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
who didn't have any wins under his belt. He had no confidence out | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
there. When we were looking at the trainer on set, this is looking good | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
for Kyle. What about the doubles if they haven't got Pospisil in the | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
doubles. He just - a second set he got better, the third set he gotten | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
better, the way he was jumping at the end of the match, he will be | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
back for the doubles. I thought there was a time that he may have to | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
push out. He wasn't pushing off his left leg. Like you say, there is no | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
better cure for an injury than a performance like that, an energy | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
like that. He will have a bit of time recover. He will definitely be | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
on the court tomorrow. Great for Pospisil today. But, Dan Evans, | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
earlier today, he put Great Britain up in his match against the | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
17-year-old Wimbledon junior champion, Denis Lovett-Murray. This | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
is how he finished it off -- - Denis Shapovlov. Wonderful scenes out | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
there against a player I am sure we will hear more about. Dan Evans | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
carrying on from the Australian Open. Let's hear what he had to say | :45:14. | :45:21. | |
to Michael Beattie after the match. You are on top of this match. What | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
was the difference? I tried to get on top early. That was my plan, to | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
silence him a bit and not give him much confidence on the court, to - | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
an then, I did that very well and got - I sort of rolled him from then | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
on. And then - I am happy with how I played. We can hear behind us, the | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
support is pretty strong. Considering how many Canadians are | :45:49. | :45:51. | |
here. They are making a lot of noise. I? I am so happy for them. | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
Hopefully we can have something to sing about on Sunday. Is there | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
something in 2017 that has clicked for you or has this been a | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
combination of a long time's work. It has been a cumulative. I have | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
been working hard for the last few years. I am starting to show a bit | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
of form. Great performance today. Thank you, cheers. He is in | :46:15. | :46:22. | |
tremendous form. 1-1, Nestor and Pospisil up against Jamie and | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
Dominic. I think this is the best match of the on paper. Daniel Nestor | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
is so experience, he is an Everreadiy battery - he keeps on | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
going. Pospisil, the way he served and the speed of this court. They | :46:40. | :46:48. | |
are not going to be easy to break. Inglot, he was number five. This | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
match won't be on as easy as it looks on paper. I think this could | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
be a close one. Looking forward to. That is tomorrow, you will be able | :46:57. | :47:04. | |
to see it on BBC Two. I hope you enjoyed it from all of us here. Bye | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
bye. | :47:08. | :47:12. |