Andy Murray Fit For Davis Cup

2 months ago 16th Sep 11:52

Andy Murray has declared himself fit for Great Britain's Davis Cup clash with Poland this weekend, despite some concern over a wrist injury.

Illness saw Britain's number one sidelined from the Davis Cup team earlier in the year which led to a defeat by Ukraine.

It's a crucial weekend for team GB as the match up is a relegation play off to remain in Group 1 of the Europe-Africa Zone. But the team do have home advantage on their side as the tie will be played in Liverpool.

Speaking to the BBC Murray said: "I practised yesterday for the first time since the US Open so I should be OK."

"It's a massive match because we have to try to move up through the groups."

"In singles we should be the favourites but they have got a very good doubles team [Poland's Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg are ranked in the world's top 10] and we will have to play well in the doubles.

"We also have to get the crowd into it as much as possible."

Team coach John Lloyd has already picked his six man squad and James Ward, Josh Goodall, Dan Evans, Ross Hutchins and Ken Skupski will all line up alongside Andy Murray.

It's been a disappointing couple of weeks for Andy Murray as he crashed out of the U.S Open in the fourth round to Marin Cilic.

While Murray, who has been overtaken by Rafael Nadal in the rankings, never blamed the wrist injury to his poor performance against the Croatian it has been a problem for the Scot.

In other Davis Cup news this weekend also sees the World Group semi-finals take place as Israel travel to Murcia to take on defending champions Spain.

Despite the absence of Rafael Nadal, due to the abdominal injury that hampered his U.S. Open, Spain start as strong favourites to reach their second consecutive final.

Tommy Robredo, David Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez are on the team sheet while Juan Carlos Ferrero comes in for the injured Nadal.