Finally, No 2 区 is equipped to lead Brit pack in Davis Cup 対決

By マイク Dickson for the Daily Mail
Updated: 22:32 BST, 9 February 2012

Brita in's slender hopes of その上の 進歩 in the Davis Cup 残り／休憩（する） very much with Londoner James 区 in the absence of Andy Murray, but at least the the GB No 2 will have his ゆすりs with him this time.

That was not the 事例／患者 in his supposed build-up to the Euro-Africa Zone group first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する against Slovakia at the Braehead 円形競技場 in Glasgow, victory in which could put Britain within two matches of a return to the エリート World Group.

After making it through qualifying to the main draw of the Australian Open 区 chose to play a 挑戦者 in the remote ロシアの city of Kazan 事前の to 長，率いるing for Scotland, only for the 航空機による to mislay all his tennis gear en 大勝する.

Ready for 活動／戦闘: James 区 has stepped to British No 1 位置／汚点／見つけ出す

'It never arrived so I tried to borrow some 着せる／賦与するing and ゆすりs from other players, but that makes it very difficult and as my 向こうずねs were feeling a bit sore I decided to pull out,' said 事実上の／代理 British No 1 区, who was only 再会させるd with his 着せる／賦与するs and 器具／備品 last Sunday.

'It was a bit of a nightmare but I feel much better now. We are up against a decent team this week but it is not like they are unbeatable, they don’t have any 最高の，を越す ten players.'

Luckily everything is 支援する in place for him ahead of Friday's start in a match which is likely to see Britain overmatched against a team whose 最高の，を越す player, Lukas Lacko, is in 罰金 form after making the Australian third 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and then making the final of last week’s ATP event in Zagreb.

With Murray 選ぶing to train with new coach Ivan Lendl in Florida rather than help out at this modest level of the 全世界の 競争, 区’s usual No 2 （テニスなどの）シングルス 位置／汚点／見つけ出す is filled by Birmingham’s 21 year-old Dan Evans, whose career is showing 調印するs of flickering to life at long last.

Evans’s Davis Cup experiences so far have not been happy ones but he undoubtedly has some natural talent and last week （機の）カム through qualifying in Zagreb and 簡潔に looked like he might （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 former 最高の，を越す 30 Spaniard Guillermo Garcia Lopez.

Britain’s best hope would seem to 嘘（をつく） in winning the （テニスなどの）ダブルス, which sees the Anglo-Scottish pair of Ross Hutchins and Colin Fleming trying to build on their 最近の 改良 that saw them make the last sixteen of the Australian. At the same time GB must hope that the more 攻撃を受けやすい Slovak No 2 M artin Klizan can be upset twice.

Absence: Andy Murray is unavailable

Slovakia are captained by former Wimbledon 半分-finalist Miloslav Mecir, a wonderful stylist to whom Murray Jr. is いつかs compared. These days Murray’s absences from the Davis Cup are more sympathetically 見解（をとる）d than they were a few years ago.

While his 傷害 excuses can be taken with a pinch of salt there is 承認 that now he is at number four in the world there is 限られた／立憲的な value to him helping out a team which needs a second world class player to make serious 進歩 in the 競争.

And, 特に in an Olympic year, he does have his work 削減（する） out competing with the likes of Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.