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Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. We come to you from inside the Emirates Arena in Glasgow where Great Britain has just reached the

Davis Cup world group quarterfinals for the second year in a row with victory once again over the United States.

I'm David Lorde joined by Simon Briggs of the Daily Tanagraph in Mars, MacLaggan, a former British Davis Cup player in coach of Andy Murray and that was some victory for Great Britain, not only the fact that they won, but more actually Simon in terms of the way they've done it.

Yeah, they didn't need the final rubber and the performance was even better than the one we saw in San Diego. Yes, they had the advantage being at home this time, but each part of the team actually stepped up again.

James beat an even better player and he was almost no perfect dropped his serve once, I think in the match and the doubles team played a lot better than they did in San Diego.

So the team's actually going from strength to strength right now. Certainly is it puts Britain into a quarter final miles against France in July.

And this is this is really something that James Ward has overturned to set still of deficit against a man with a serve like that.

Well, it was absolutely incredible match, especially when you know John is and looked to be playing very sonnally, but James Ward is improving on the tour and week and week out.

He's been in amongst these guys more and more often and was very, very impressed at the level he was able to maintain throughout that match.

And once again, it came down to the fourth rubber, Andy Murray looked pretty tense out there, didn't he?

He was getting pretty antsy in that third set as well. He was getting upset about not having any challenges remaining, but you know he got over the finish line actually in straight sets in the end.

It was tense out there and he's shown how much this the Davis Cup and winning here this weekend means to him. It was a tight match. It was a different isna that we saw on Friday, it was an isna that really threw everything around Andy.

He was up to it and we've seen him play under huge pressure many, many times and once again he came up trumps.

I want to talk about captains gentlemen because Leon Smith, frankly, I think before he got this job, he was known as somebody who'd worked with Andy Murray when Murray was at a young age, but it's not like he's played the game to any great level, but he has become one of the best captains we've seen certainly in Britain.

What were we facing potential relegation into group two when he started?

Into group three. We're in Euro African zone two, we're great Britain and played a relegation playoff against Turkey in Eastbourne in 2010.

I was there for five live and here we are again in five years later in Glasgow into a second successive World Group quarter final and that was the first tie that Leon Smith was in charge of.

He had a team of Jamie Baker, James Ward and Ken Skupski and Colin Fleming in the doubles. Andy Murray was taking time out, basically allowing time for the British team to get back into a position where he felt it was sensible for him to rejoin.

So that's how far they've come.

I think if you go back, that announcement of Leon as the new captain was not met with an awful lot of enthusiasm or optimism and he's proved everyone wrong, basically.

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