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Leonardo Mayer and Carlos Berlocq gave Argentina a 2-1 lead over Belgium in Saturday’s semifinal, beating Steve Darcis and Ruben Bemelmans in a four-hour match.

Great Britain captain Leon Smith hailed the commitment of Andy Murray as his top player considers missing the Barclays ATP Tour finals to help prepare for the Davis Cup final. The 28-year-old duly delivered his third point of the match, beating Tomic 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 in Glasgow.

Despite struggling with a back injury and coming off a five-set doubles match on Saturday, Murray managed to find another peak performance to beat Tomic 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.

As stadium sound systems rarely use turntables these days, we can assume that the DJ at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena had his mouse icon hovering over the Proclaimers’ iconic 500 Miles at around 4.15pm yesterday.

Brother Jamie is one of the form doubles players in the world, having got to the final at Wimbledon and, just a week ago, the US Open. It has been giving me a lot of trouble this week. “My results speak for themselves”.

Lleyton Hewitt has backed dropped tennis player Nick Kyrgios, saying he is “one of the massive shining lights” for Australia despite his absence from this weekend’s Davis Cup showdown with Great Britain.

“I’ve always loved playing the Hopman Cup. I’ve got a lot of great memories”.

Great Britain and Australia are tied after day one of their Davis Cup semi-final in Glasgow on Friday.

Birmingham-born Evans, who now plays the Futures circuit and has slumped to No.300 in the world, was originally called into the squad as back-up, but has forced his way past out-of-form James Ward and youngster Kyle Edmund.

Britain’s Andy Murray serves to Australia’s Thanasi Kokkinakis…

Australian veteran Lleyton Hewitt says the pressure is all on Andy Murray as he attempts to lead his Great Britain side to Davis Cup glory.

Lleyton Hewitt has applied the blow torch to Andy Murray on the eve of Australia’s Davis Cup semi-final with Great Britain in Glasgow.

Having set a world record to lead qualifiers from last night’s 50m Breaststroke semi-finals, Peaty was locked in a battle with South Africa’s two-time champion Cameron Van Der Burgh in the final as the pair powered clear from the middle two lanes.

Guy, the youngest swimmer in the final at age 19, touched first in 1 minute, 45.14 seconds.

It came on the eve of Australia’s ultimately successful Davis Cup quarter-final tie against Kazakhstan, from which Tomic was dumped after a tirade against Australian tennis administrators following his Wimbledon exit.