Davis Cup - Greg Rusedski Backs Britain To Reach Final; Both Semifinals Level Overnight

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Former British Davis Cup player Greg Rusedski has backed Britain to go on from their 1-1 overnight scoreline to reach the final of the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas for the first time in 37 years. In a guest appearance on Tennis Podcast, Rusedski told presenters David Law and Catherine Whitaker that Andy Murray is looking better than ever, and believes he will play in Saturday’s doubles and carry Britain to victory on Sunday, Captains Leon Smith and Wally Masur give their verdicts on day one, with Masur confirming the identity of his doubles pairing. The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with The Telegraph and supported by BNP Paribas, the bank for a changing world. Greg Rusedski is a pundit for British Eurosport.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Layton Huett and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:12.6	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on the opening day of the Davis Cup by BNP Parbar.
0:18.4	My name is David Lawre. I'm joined today by Catherine Whittaker as normal. But guess who I've
0:23.0	got as a special guest? It's only Greg Rzecki. Greg, how you doing? That was a pretty exciting first
0:28.4	day of action between Great Britain and Australia here, one all overnight. But it hasn't exactly
0:34.0	gone I think as we expected to do. Well I think the first match went as expected. I'm in
0:38.3	Murray with sensation. I thought that's the best tennis I've seen in play in a long time.
0:41.9	77% second serve points. One that's an area we talk about Murray a lot about and also playing
0:46.7	aggressive tennis really just dominant performance. The second match was interesting because Tomic got
0:51.6	off to a great start. You know look very comfortable setting a break and then Dan Evans comes back,
0:55.7	loses a tie breaker. Tomic served for the match. It's broken, loses the tie breaker. We went into
1:00.3	the fourth set right there and they were thinking okay could this possibly be another heroic effort
1:05.4	from Dan Evans. But Tomic got the job done looking like he was cramping tired but probably the
1:10.5	score everybody thought won a piece at the end of the day. Yeah it's pretty much how it
1:13.8	talisman what I was watching on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra in the commentary booth there. You
1:18.0	were watching for British Euro sport who are obviously covering the tie as well. Catherine you were
1:23.0	in the stands watching some of that. What was the atmosphere like being out there court side?
1:27.6	Rowdy and Rowdy here is the day went on not just because there was alcohol being consumed I think
1:33.4	because they were being given plenty to feed on. It was extraordinary. I was actually in a
1:39.6	largely corporate stand. It was still pretty Rowdy. I mean as I tweeted earlier the chat behind me
1:46.3	as the players were walking on court and the Bonnie Banks of Locke Lomond started playing the
1:51.0	chat behind me turned to whoever he was with I couldn't see and he went this isn't like Wimbledon is it?
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