Andy Murray criticises LTA over state of British tennis

The nod came as Murray and his Davis Cup team-mates dismissed the idea of a victory parade to mark their historic win in Ghent, Belgium, joking that no-one would turn up to see them.

On the other hand, though, they did have to spend some of the day with Piers Morgan, so it wasn’t all good. But, looking at the state of it more closely, my next thought was I really hope it doesn’t cause an accident and get someone injured.

Newly-crowned champions Britain are on course for a clash with 2010 winners Serbia in next year’s competition, but the chances are that neither Murray nor Djokovic will be involved, as it falls just after Wimbledon and with the Olympics looming. “It’s probably the most emotional I’ve been at the end of a match”, Murray said.

“We need to keep in mind the time of year we have got”.

Great Britain should enjoy their Davis Cup success because it could be a while before such a feat is emulated.

Murray has said he will rejoin the GB team in their title defence, which begins in March against Japan in Birmingham.

With one flawless lob, Andy Murray ended eight decades of Davis Cup frustration for Britain.

There remained plenty of ambiguity in his answer, though, with the 39-year-old saying: “There’s been so much gone into this year but also the years gone by that I’ve not thought anything about it”.

Murray said he had no regrets over having made playing in the Davis Cup very much his priority in the latter half of the season, even though it meant he failed to add to his haul of Grand Slam titles, which remains stuck at two since his 2013 Wimbledon triumph.

‘We value the opinions of all of our players on how we grow the game in Britain and our door is always open to Andy, Dan, Dom, James, Jamie and Kyle to hear their views and work collaboratively with them’.

The world number two believes the International Tennis Federation, which organises the Davis Cup, and the ATP should do more to ensure scheduling problems can be resolved.

One Twitter user joked: “You may wish it was called “David” cup…but I’m afraid it’s Davis for now”. If the top player says he is unhappy, everybody in British tennis is going to listen.