Hi, I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast episode 36 and I don't know about you,

Catherine Whitaker, but I am buzzing as a British person who has just seen great Britain come back

from two love down in the Davis Cup for the first time in 83 years to win a tie. How cool is that?

Yes, it's pretty cool, isn't it? Pretty all the more cool for being so very unexpected, I would say.

I think if you said you were after being two love down, you thought we had a strong chance of

coming back, I think you'd be lying. I know. I mean, to be quite honest with you, I watched a lot of it

on the LTA website because they had a live stream on there and I was sort of, I'd only been back

from Miami for a couple of days, so I didn't actually go to the tie, but I was doing all my

sort of household chores and watching this match sort of evolve. I think what really struck me

is how well they played on the Friday, both Dan Evans and James Ward and came out with nothing.

And I think that at that point, it just felt like another glorious defeat, really, of the type

that Britain, generally, not even just recently, but generally has been known for, didn't it? I mean,

if you think of all the years, when Britain, we're in the world group with Greg Resetsky and Tim

Hemman and now that classic against the United States and five setters against Jim Courier and

all that kind of thing and ended up losing and it just felt like it was going to be another one of those.

And you can almost feel the burden of that history on the young guys who, you know, you can't blame

them for feeling the pressure, you know, five all in the fifth set or whatever and you can almost

feel that the burden of those gutsy losses, you know, on these young players who haven't got

a proven track record and you almost think it's going to be easier for them to come out and blast

these guys away in three sets rather than getting into a gritty position where they're potentially

going to have to hold their nerve to some extreme extent. But, you know,

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