On the 6th of April the GB Davis cup team will take on Belgium in Glasgow for the chance to go through to the September play-offs for the World Group. As you may remember Andy Murray did not play in the last Davis Cup tie and it seems he has still not decided if he will play this time.
He said - “It depends on how Miami goes. It’s a bit like Indian
Wells – I wasn’t planning on having that sort of week. You always plan
for the best-case scenario and that’s finishing on Sunday evening with a
win and then you go from there. I’ll have a chat with Leon next week –
he’s coming over to Miami – about [the] Davis Cup and I’ll speak to the
guys next week about it because obviously the Indian Wells week changes
things a little bit because I didn’t play as many matches as I would
have hoped. So, I’ll see how Miami goes.”
GB captain, Leon Smith has to name his team a week tomorrow and if Murray was to play there would be another issue - who would be GB's doubles team? It would be a lovely predicament to have for once, to many players! As if Andy wants to play with brother Jamie the were would that leave Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins, Britains latest go-to team?
Fleming and Hutchins are ranked 8th in the race to London but it was the Murray brothers who recently beat them at Indian Wells and Jamie has been successful as a doubles player for a long time now, Hutchins explained how he felt about the issue; “We’ve been quite successful since we’ve started together,” Hutchins
said, “but Andy can light up a court like probably only three other
players in the world and Jamie’s been top 50 for the last
I-don’t-know-how-many years. If Andy plays Davis Cup and wants to play
with Jamie, I think it would be wrong to be, like, ‘no; these guys are
our team’. It’s a discussion that should happen amongst the captain and
the coaches and Andy and do what is best for the team.”
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Andy Murray will also be supporting Malaria No More in their latest campaign, he will be giving away a signed tennis racket, t-shirt and tickets to watch him play this summer to whoever brings in the most sponsorship money taking part in the charity's Live
Below the Line! campaign where you get by on £1 a day for food and drink
between 7-11 May.
He said "It asks people across the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia to live
on £1 a day for all food and drink for five days in May. Why? You might well
ask. "Well, it's to raise awareness about 1.4 billion people who live on this
budget everyday, for everything, so food, drink, education, transport,
healthcare, the lot. Surviving on that budget is pretty incomprehensible for
most of us which is why this is such a powerful campaign".
If you want to get involved sign up here: www.livebelowtheline.com/uk-mnmuk
And to read all of Andy's blog on the subject check here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/andy-murray/could-you-live-on-5-for-five-days
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| David Beckham has teamed up with Murray to support the use of Malaria nets. |
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