• Andy Murray and the Davis Cup. "Some want to damage the new format before starting"

The Madrid district of Usera has now become the headquarters of world tennis. More than twelve hours a day of Davis Cup from Monday to Sunday. In the early hours of Tuesday, at about two in the morning, fans left the Magic Box after witnessing the decisive point achieved by Feliciano López and Marcel Granollers before Russia. Just a few hours later, the site turned its lights back on and welcomed the early risers. They were - how not - the British.

A group of about fifty people, with United Kingdom flags behind them, walked noisily from the San Fermín Orcasur metro stop. The neighbors of the neighborhood hallucinated with the atmosphere created by the British followers and immortalized with their mobiles their songs and their striking choreographies.

Already on track number 3, where Britain and the Netherlands measured their forces, these fans appeared and, to the surprise of the majority, they were located just behind the bench. Moreover, their uniforms made sense that they were members of the team itself. They were loud, very loud. They encouraged Andy Murray at every point. "Let's go Andy, lets go!", Was the most repeated song, chanted by the rest of the stands, crowded with flags of the United Kingdom.

Whoever was number 1 in the world had not played a Davis Cup match since September 2016. A year earlier, he confirmed the last British title in this competition. However, his return to Davis before the young Tallon Griekspoor , number 170 in the world, was distressing . At times even too much. In the second set he tripped and fell to the floor, right next to his bench. It was the most obvious proof of a Murray who based his game on survival. And sometimes, resisting and waiting for the claudication of your rival is the best decision.

He won the victory in three sets (6-7, 6-4 and 7-6) with an epic comeback . Epic for the result and for his obvious limp in the final tie-break, where he overcame a three-point disadvantage and regained his serve by returning absolutely everything from the bottom of the track.

An agonized resurrection of a tennis player who just a few months ago seemed to have kept the racket in the closet forever.

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