• ‘You have to remember this is early days in him coming back’• GB begin revamped tournament against Netherlands
In the many years that Leon Smith has brought the disparate bits and pieces of
British tennis together in a Davis Cup team capable of great things, Andy Murray has been the unchallenged centrepiece of the captain’s strategy. That might not be the case here this week.
Smith said on Monday as he prepared for the first match in the revamped 18-team “World Cup Of Tennis” – on Wednesday against the Netherlands, on the smaller Court 3, curiously – the three-slam champion will be in the selection mix alongside Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans.