Davis Cup - Great Britain safe from relegation thanks to Murray

Davis Cup British team news:

3rd rubber:
Andy Murray and Jamie Delgado lost to Ukraine in the doubles in the Davis Cup - missing the chance to seal Britain's Euro-African Zone survival early. Delgado was a late replacement for Greg Rusedski, after Captain John Lloyd decided to rest Rusedski following his almost 4 hour long match the previous day. Orest Tereshchuk(Ukr)& Sergiy Stakhovsky(Ukr) bt Andrew Murray(Gbr)& Jamie Delgado(Gbr) 6-3 6-3 6-3

Andy Murray, who was very much out of form today and whose seve was broken three times, needs to find the form which launched him into the world top 20 rankings.
"I obviously didn't play at my best today," admitted Murray. "I didn't serve too well and maybe missed too many reflex volleys"

Delgado, now without a win in six Davis Cup ties, was clearly the weaker link and his fallibility on serve was exposed time and again.

In the foruth rubber however,Andy Murray made no mistake against Sergiy Stakhovsky as he confirmed Great Britain's Euro-African Zone One status with a comfortable singles victory. With Saturday's doubles defeat leaving the tie in Ukraine finely poised at 2-1, the pressure was on Murray.

The Scot was hardly at his most fluent, allowing the impressively dogged home favourite several break points. But Murray's class told in the end, breaking Stakhovsky five times to win 6-3 6-2 7-5 and relegate Ukraine.

So much for Murray's travel plans. He had hoped to leave Odessa tonight to enable him to arrive with time to get refreshed before next week's Bangkok Open in Thailand.