Looking ahead to the crucial doubles rubber, Jeremy Bates said:
"At 1-1 the tie is all to play for and the doubles becomes crucial.
"Andy has shown no ill-effects from practising yesterday and it's just a question of trying to sharpen him up.
"It's one thing hitting balls but quite another thing competing and playing points. But it's good he is going to be coming in and playing with Greg, who is confident and used to the court."
And Bates admitted he had hoped for more from the Glasgow crowd on Friday despite Murray's absence.
"I was a little bit disappointed with the crowd, if you want my honest opinion,"
"There were quite a lot of empty seats and I thought it was a bit too docile. Hopefully it will be better with Andy playing."
I fancy the home boys for this one. Rusedski is an underrated doubles player and will be interesting to see (or hear in my case) how he gels with murray. GB in four.
4-1 to S&M the brits missed 5break points on that game. Basically Murray is really rusty, making ues everywhere and he had a love break.
On the up side, we just won a love hold when Greg served.
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40-0 to S&M, they're not a bad team and are working well together. Murray hits a lovely backhand volley winner in response though...and then can't get his racket on another serve.
(commentators are telling everyone as we didn't know that the doubles match is important)
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Apparently, Murray started to find his form and GB had 0-40 with 3 break back points as Muzza hit a forehand winner. Unfortunately, Zimo came up with big serves to take it to deuce. GB had a 4th bp but they wasted that by staying too far behind the baseline. Bozo produced some quality volleying to take the game