Andy Murray WILL play Davis Cup match in Glasgow today

Kyle Edmund looks likely to face Del Potro in the decisive rubber as Great Britain attempt to defend the competition they won in Ghent past year, with Andy Murray favourite to defeat Guido Pella in the first reverse singles on Sunday.

However, after his five-hour and seven-minute epic win against Murray on Friday, the expectation was that Del Potro, still working his way back into the game following wrist surgery, would take the day off ahead of Sunday s reverse singles. Jamie was the one who was the driving force on the court, as Andy looked spent after his 5 hours marathon against del Potro yesterday, but in the last stage of the match, he helped his brother by winning some very important points, leaving del Potro and Mayer without an answer.

Britain, who are bidding to defend the title that they won in Belgium a year ago, were the favourites ahead of this weekend’s tie in Glasgow but now need to win all three remaining matches to reach the final following Kyle Edmund’s defeat to Guido Pella in the second singles match.

Del Potro has accomplished much during his comeback year, but establishing absolute primacy in the city of Murray’s birth was beyond him.

The victor here meets the victor of the tie being played in Croatia, where the home team took a 2-1 lead over France on Saturday.

He continued, “Against Andy you never know when the match will finish”. “It is exciting to play against the best players in the world and it was a battle”.

Once again, the Mayer service game collapsed when it mattered and there was nearly something predatory about Andy Murray as he approached the net on the first of three break points to make sure Britain needed only one. “This kind of moment was what I was missing when I was at home”.

World number ones Great Britain haven’t defeated Argentina since 1928 and their hopes of ending that run took a blow before Edmund took to the court following Del Potro’s defeat of home crowd favourite Murray.

Brits raised their level in the 3rd set, creating 2 break points in both 2nd and 4th games, but the result stayed locked-up at 3-3.

It was also his second successive defeat from two sets to one up, a position from which he has been nigh on invincible in recent years, after last week’s US Open exit to Kei Nishikori.

The Scots blew away Argentine duo Juan Martin del Potro and Leo Mayer 6-1 3-6 6-4 6-4 at the Emirates in Glasgow yesterday having been 2-0 down to Argentina after Friday’s singles.

The match pitted the pure power of del Potro and Mayer from the baseline against the Murray brothers fast reflexes and sharp angles at net. He looked nearly out on his feet at times in an energy-sapping final set, and couldn’t handle the barrage of forehand shots by the rejuvenated Del Potro. “I think for the team it was the best option to play the doubles”, said del Potro. “It’s been a long day, both guys have fought as hard as they can, given their best and that’s all we ask before they go out”. That’s all you can do.

“It was very fine margins”. If something happened to me in this situation, I would be really, really sad because I fought a lot to come back to tennis. “It could have gone either way”. “We’re very proud as a team of what we’ve achieved so far. I’ve played matches close to that length but none after an extremely long stretch of playing, so I don’t know how I’ll feel in the morning”. I was fighting every point, no matter what.