Davis Cup Saturday - ‘One of the most memorable days in British tennis history’ - Annabel Croft

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

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🗓️ 19 September 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Murray brothers’ five-set win over Sam Groth and Lleyton Hewitt was ‘one of the most memorable days in British tennis history’, according to British Eurosport pundit Annabel Croft. With Great Britain standing one Andy Murray match win away from a Davis Cup by BNP Paribas final for the first time since 1978, Croft joined David Law (BBC 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker on the Tennis Podcast to talk about an epic doubles encounter. "I've never experienced an atmosphere in my life like the one in this arena today,” said Croft. “It’s one of the most memorable days in British tennis history and Judy Murray said to me in New York that winning the Davis Cup is one of Andy’s major ambitions." Sitting courtside in Glasgow as Bernard Tomic was put through his paces on Saturday evening, the Tennis Podcast team speculated about whether any changes to the team are likely. ‘‘It is just such a conundrum for the Aussies over who to pick,” said Croft. "From what I’m seeing I think it might well be...

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Layton Huett and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:12.6	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the Telegraph.
0:16.8	We are supported by BNP Parbar, the bank for a changing world and we are in Glasgow,
0:22.9	site of the Davis Cup by BNP Parbar semi-finals between Great Britain and Australia and what a
0:29.7	thrilling day we've had on Saturday a five-set classic between the Murray Brothers and the
0:35.6	and Jamie against the old warrior Layton Huett and the biggest server in tennis in Sam Groff,
0:41.2	it went all the way and eventually it was won by Great Britain and it takes Britain now into a two
0:48.7	one lead overnight as we go into the Sunday's reverse singles. My name is David Law, I was
0:55.4	commentating on those matches for BBC Radio 5 live. I'm joined today by our regular Catherine
1:02.6	Whittaker and has a very special guest here on the tennis podcast. Hot-footing it from British
1:09.2	Euro Sport is Annabelle Croft, Annabelle, how you doing? We're sitting here at the moment and
1:13.5	we're keeping our voices down because we're caught side looking around the corner at the Australian
1:19.2	teams. It's only an hour ago that this place was utter bedlam, 8,000 voices and people shouting
1:26.4	as loudly as they could. Now it is very quiet because the Australian team are going through their
1:31.7	faces ahead of tomorrow's reverse singles and frankly I still don't know who's going to play and I'm
1:37.3	spying on them. Well I'm spying too, I'm trying to work out who they might put in to go up against
1:42.6	Murray to where in that first crucial singles match and from what I'm seeing it might well be
1:47.9	Tomic who of course is down to play but after his first singles match we all thought well maybe
1:52.0	they won't play it but after what's just happened with Murray what an extraordinary contest that was
1:57.7	but I mean he is very physically and emotionally drained as he said in the press conference
2:02.6	so they need somebody the Aussies do that's going to have a bit more energy and actually
2:06.8	Groth and Huitt are both as exhausted probably as Murray so I think it probably will be Tomic but
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