Jan wrote:

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does anyone know if there will be a stream to watch this?

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It is being shown on Eurosport so there will definitely be streams available.

Team in good spirits

Conversation during practice as Evo aims a playful swipe at the Murray kneecap with the frame of his racket.

Evo - "What would you do if I crashed this into your kneecap?"

Muzza - "I would fall down ...... pause ...... but when I got up, I would find you!!"

On a more serious note, when anyone asks Andy about other players, almost everyone stops to listen to the answer.  Andy simply "holds court" with the whole squad who just love to hear him talk. They are all benefitting from his experience and it is great to see.

Thank you, well worth it!

I added the #CROvGB hashtag to try to get it a wider audience, but Evo RTing your original turned out to be far more effective

Personally, I think they look a posh undertaker's convention (or stand-ins for the hotel staff), but as long as they 'bury' the Croats this weekend, it's fine by me

The Davis Cup site appears to be claiming to have live coverage of Andy in Croatia - http://www.daviscup.tv/

Yes - £6.95 for the 3 days. I think I'll see what the free livestreams are like first. . . I would probably have paid if it were not for the fact that our daughter is coming up to do the Great North Run, and when she is not actually out running she commandeers my computer!

Yes it did, that is worrying.

On a different (DC-related) subject, Muzz is reported as saying today that he doesn't know why they don't make Davis Cup mandatory. He might well have hit the nail on the head - the top players might want to play DC, but they often seem to fear that if they do, they are giving an advantage to their rivals who miss it out.

The current method of trying to tempt players to take part, i.e. awarding ATP ranking points for World Group live rubber wins, is both unfair and largely ineffective (because for a top player, winning an ATP 500 event takes much less effort than winning lots of DC rubbers over 3 or 4 separate weeks, and if you aren't even in the World Group, it's no incentive at all) but if they did away with that and instead said that players had to make themselves available for each DC tie (or maybe at least 2 per year) and otherwise had to take zero-pointers (in the same way as they can count less optionals if they fail to play four 500-series events), that might go a long way towards solving the problem.

Obviously there could be collusion with captains over this (e.g. "I'm making myself available (whisper) as long as you don't pick me") but it would be more effective at removing the perceived advantage of skipping DC than any other method I can think of.