Davies Cup - Britains first win in nearly 80 years today?

I'm not a great lover of tennis but there is kind of like a world cup of tennis and Team GB has reached the final against little Belgium and it kicks off today - well right now actually.

It the best out of five matches spread over three days (I think).

We've not won the thing for about 80 years or so apparently, so lets all get behind the lads and wish them all the very best!

(Latest news - seems we are 3-0 in the first set of the first rubber).

I'm probably alone on this thread but the british kid (making his debut in the final too!) is currently spanking the Belgium favourite in this first rubber and has already won the first set and is 1-4 up in the second.

Fantastic stuff.

Follow it if you can HERE -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live_sports_extra

Now 5-1

Tremendous stuff!

Rubber?

2 set points for a 2-0 lead....

Double fault, 2-0.

Piece of piss.

Bwfc1958 wrote:Rubber?

I think that's what its called in a 'team' tennis match.

Apologies if I've got it wrong.


The British lad as now won the second set.

Great stuff!

Looks like the British lad bottles gone.

Got spanked in the third set and now losing in the fourth.

To be honest, when it was 5-0 in the first and Belgium pulled a game back to make it 5-1 and Jonathon Overend on comms said "Oh, go on then.....we'll give you one game" two things struck me:

1. Bit early for being smug

and

2. It's no wonder everybody hates us with statements like that.

The British lad gut well and truly stuffed in the end but he played wonderfully well for the first two sets.

1-0 down in a best of 5 competition.

Murray up next!

Guess that there is only me interested in this?

The Murray brothers won the singles yesterday to put the match score as 2-1 to us and Murray has just won the first set of todays singles, which if he goes on to win will give us the Davies Cup for the first time in 79 years.

A bit of history in the making I hope.

Live on iplayer here if anyone interested -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/tennis/34402185

I'm glued to it sluffster...Murrays making v hard work of second set. be amazing if it went to the final match and our 108 in the world youngster won it for us?

Sluffy, Manda: How on earth did you manage to tear yourselves away from TV long enough to post on here??!! 
Absolutely awesome to come from the brink of relegation from the world group five years ago to become the world champions now. Skill, stamina, hours and hours of practice and conditioning, mental strength in the face of huge vocal away support, and ability to hold your nerve at key moments.

Well, that sorts out the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for team performance and possibly the individual award too: we should all relish and cherish the fact that  in Andy Murray we have one of our greatest ever sportsmen in our midst right now. Appreciate this win and this player, for we may never see the like again.

It's not like it's a proper sport though, is it?

It's like being Tiddly Winks World Champions or holding the Guinness World Record for sitting in a bath full of beans, isn't it?

A nice title to hold but not really that impressive, is it?

If it was, we'd never have won it in the first place.......

Breadman: Natasha is rubbing off on you.......so to speak.......

I used to dislike Andy Murray. But now I see that he is a rare bread of professional sportsman who is in it to win things, rather than the money.

He put everything into this Davis Cup win, and you could tell by his reaction at the end how much it meant to him.

Top bloke.

Fantastic.

I'm not into tennis but then again I'm not into golf either but The Ryder Cup is for me one of the great sporting events of the last couple of decades.

I'm not sure The Davies Cup matches it but its been really a gripping three days watching how it all panned out with of course the bonus of a historic British win.

An amazing 24 hours of sport with first the win for Fury, then DeGale and now Murray inspired Davies Cup.

Hope it somehow inspires us for Monday nights game!

Now that is an impressive feat.

Bet Andy Murray and his massive head couldn't do that.

Thoroughly enjoyed the tennis this weekend. Never thought we'd win the Davis Cup in my lifetime so I'm well impressed. Sure it was the Murray show, but I thought Edmunds did well in his game before tiring and there is some strength in depth with the likes of Ward who played in earlier rounds.
But it's amazing that we're World Champions ahead of teams like Spain, Serbia and Switzerland (who had both Federer and Stan Wawrinka) - just goes to show the importance of having a good doubles partnership in this format and the Murray brothers can carry that off.