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The papers all agree, therefore it must be so: British tennis has just suffered its most humiliating day as the Davis Cup team was beaten by a group of Lithuanian teenagers.

JOHN LLOYD’S days as Great Britain’s Davis Cup captain may be numbered after last weekend’s humiliating 3-2 defeat in Lithuania.

DAVIS up captain John Lloyd’s job is on the line after Great Britain were humiliated by Lithuania in their Davis Cup tie in Vilnius yesterday.

After Sunday’s Davis Cup loss to Lithuania, John Lloyd’s side are at a new low. Paul Newman asks how it came to this GETTY Britain’s Davis Cup captain, John Lloyd, may be in the firing line despite being a popular figure enlarge The Lawn Tennis Association has an annual budget of 59.7m compared with the […]

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It may have taken a trip behind the old Iron Curtain, and a match against a teenage Lithuanian ranked 521 in the world, for it to happen, but today, for the first time in 13 years, a British player other than Andy Murray, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski won a live Davis Cup singles rubber, […]

As Tim Henman fought to prevent a two-day British wipe-out at the US Open here yesterday, Greg Rusedski and Alex Bogdanovic were already thinking ahead.

Roger Federer has won the Australian Open after a superb 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 victory over Andy Murray in Melbourne.

Andrew Murray and David Sherwood, who had not exchanged more than a brief hello until they arrived here last week, were bonded in the annals of British Davis Cup history last night after a heroic winning debut against Israel.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN Venue: Melbourne Park Date: 18-31 January Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button and Radio 5 Live sports extra daily from 0830 GMT, text commentary daily from 0000 GMT on BBC Sport website Britons Alex Bogdanovic, James Ward and and Dan Evans reached the second round of Australian Open qualifying with straight-sets victories on […]

WHATEVER happens on the courts of Melbourne Park in the next couple of weeks, Andy Murray has won one major battle this year - he has convinced the people of Australia that he is, as they say in these parts, a ripping good bloke.

Britain’s Alex Bogdanovic and James Ward both claimed straight-sets wins on Wednesday in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open.

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Andy Murray has said his absence from the Davis Cup tie in Lithuania will allow the younger members of the team to come through.

It was a dead rubber but, as a jubilant Alex Bogdanovic pointed out, a win is a win, and his defeat of Australia’s legendary Todd Woodbridge in the first-round world group Davis Cup tie provided a small crumb of comfort for the depleted British team.

Imagine Roger Federer winning the Australian, French and Wimbledon titles and then suddenly announcing he wasn’t going to play at the US Open because he simply could not be bothered.

Bolton Arena, in common with Telford Racquets Centre, the previous home of the National Championships, has a walkway above the courts.

Alex Bogdanovic, the 17-year-old revelation of the National Championships, is due to play Arvind Parmar, six years his senior, in the men’s singles semi-finals today.

No sooner had Jeremy Bates broken Pat Cash in the opening set en route to his first ever win against the former Wimbledon champion, 6-3, 6-2, than three spectators at the Honda Challenge raised their voices.

Alex Bogdanovic, the 18-year-old national champion, who was given his Davis Cup debut in Australia in February in the absence of both Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski, has been warned that he will have to take part in a play-off in order to get a wild card for Wimbledon.

Britain’s Alex Bogdanovic is not among the 43 players who will receive the highest level of support from the Lawn Tennis Association over the next year.

The Lawn Tennis Association have named the 43 players who will receive the governing body’s highest level of support for the next 12 months.

The cliche about letting the racket do the talking rang true on the Centre Court and in the interview room yesterday after one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Championships.

Some said this was the worst Wimbledon ever. Do you agree? I only started coming regularly five years ago, but it was easily the worst I’ve experienced.

You can say what you like about Nikolay Davydenko, but the way he withstood the flak and innuendo that surrounded him after the betting controversy has been amazing.

The Great Britain captain John Lloyd tries to lift Dan Evans during his straight-sets defeat yesterday enlarge As John Lloyd, the Great Britain captain, considers life next year among the minnows of Lithuania, Slovenia and Estonia, he might like to look back on the last time a team from these shores suffered relegation to Europe […]

British number one Andy Murray is open to persuasion over his Davis Cup future but has suggested others might replace him in Europe/Africa Zone Group II.

David Felgate knows better than most what it takes for an Englishman to have an impact at Wimbledon.

Canadian Stephanie Dubois advanced to the women’s final of the US$175,000 Odlum Brown VanOpen tennis tournament Saturday, outlasting American Mashona Washington 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. The Laval, Que., native will meet top-seeded Sania Mirza of India who beat Toronto’s Sharon Fichman 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal.

North Vancouver’s Philip Bester, the former French Open junior singles finalist, proved his worth at the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open tennis tournament.