Andy Murray wants more passion for Davis Cup

Published on Monday 22 September 2008 10:19

ANDY MURRAY insists his Great Britain team-mates need to display more passion if they are to restore their Davis Cup fortunes.

Murray won both his singles matches in the 3-2 defeat by Austria on the grass of Wimbledon which relegated Britain from the world group and consigned them to the Europe/Africa zone where they could play countries such as Georgia, Latvia or Macedonia.

The Dunblane player saw British No.2 Alex Bogdanovic lose both his singles and the doubles pairing of brother Jamie Murray and Ross Hutchins lose tamely in straight sets on Saturday.

And Murray believes the defeat had as much to do with a lack of fire as talent.

"I have showed I love playing the Davis Cup. In both my matches I showed a lot of emotion and got the crowd involved," he said.

"You have to do that in Davis Cup, especially when you have home ties, take advantage of the crowd. The guys in the other matches didn't get the crowd involved as much as I would have liked.

Captain John Lloyd said: "I am very disappointed. We worked damned hard to get in the world group and now we are out of it."

The draw for the Europe/Africa zone is made tomorrow.