• much Britain’s No1 wins 6-3,6-2, 7-5 in second singles of tie in Belgium
• Andy and Jamie Murray play Kimmer Coppejans and Steve Darcis in doublesWhen the 2015 Davis Cup final began in this perversely atmospheric warehouse on Friday, and anxiety penetrated beyond the usual frayed nerve endings of the participants – but background fears of terrorism quickly gave way to some enthralling tennis that saw eventual parity between much Britain and Belgium.
Day one ended as we thought it might do: one rubber apiece – but Kyle Edmund came tantalisingly close to making history as the first final debutant in the 115-year history of the competition to win a live rubber,before suffering at the crafty hands of David Goffin in five sets which one would hardly imagine belonged in the same match.
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Source: theguardian.com