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Originally uploaded by paranoidangel

It almost feels like there's been constant tennis this summer, what with the French Open, Stella Artois, Wimbledon, Olympics and now the Davis Cup.

I had some overtime to take last week, so I went home to watch Friday's matches. Saturday I went to Wimbledon, today I just lay on the sofa and despaired. Well, towards the end.

The trouble with Davis Cup is that as much as you can admire the tennis the same as at other times, it's just not the same when our guys don't win. And they didn't, which was all depressing. That it went down to the last match helped a bit at least. But in the programme Jamie Murray said that it often hinges on Saturday's doubles match - the team that wins that one goes onto win the tie and he was right in this case.

I've still enjoyed watching the tennis and had a good time at Wimbledon yesterday. It's just that... we lost. And now we're back in Euro-Africa Zone 1 where we can't fail to lose, and then go on to play another World Group qualifying match next year. Then if we get into the World Group we then lose our first match. And so the cycle continues... Until our two doubles specialists improve and the British number 2 has a lot higher ranking (inside the top 100 would be a start).