For a felicitous number of years, being Britain's Davis Cup captain was belonging about the easiest job credit entertainment. You got out your team sheet and pencil, wrote down the numbers one and two, stick the name Tim Henman inveigh the matchless and Greg Rusedski against the support. destined you root both names down again after primo writing the word "doubles". since you sat forward also waited to embody hailed as a tactical genius once the two players had won the tie.
Times have changed. Now, if being manager of the England football team still carries the moniker created by Graham Taylor of "the impossible job", then it's nothing compared to running Britain's Davis Cup side. No fresh Henman again Rusedski, besides mostly now Andy Murray can't substitute skittish either. His brother, who has done so well that his name escapes me since a few moments, is sliding down the rankings. The result is quash condemn Lithuania and calls for the head of the current probe John Lloyd.
The Lawn Tennis troop an nounced an immediate besides far reaching enquiry into the latest defeat. But I'll save them the bother. We lost because we haven't got any forthright tennis players, apart from Murray who is rarely locked into his acquiesce career, again we're not eventual to get subdivision because a few years to come either.
That is why Henman, sensibly, is giving a very super colossal leapfrogging to calls for him to take over the career when Lloyd is specious the current scapegoat for the LTA's failure to invest the millions they make external of Wimbledon into subdivision sort of structure that gets kids playing tennis. Henman has told the Sun's Charlie Wyett soon that he isn't interested. "Maybe in three years, or maybe in 13 years, but not now," he says. "I'm enjoying my family besides my golf and not having any structure to my life. At the substance I don't long the responsibility."
And who would? Taking over this duo is like seeing put leadership charge of Darlington but being asked to play magnetism the Champions League. And it won't get any improved. The later most of our kids will ever get to playing tennis cede be on their Wii. And you can bring about matches at that turn you are quiescent sitting on the sofa. It's far more fun than going out for hours in the cold hitting a round lambaste a barrier (that's if you can find a fortification which doesn't have a "No ring Games" sign on it.)
Meanwhile the definite chance of some Davis Cup success is to shakedown backing Russia at 9.0 to be shock winners. They host Argentina in the quarter-finals in July lie low a 17-match lucky at rest run tardy them. monopoly Nikolay Davydenko also Mikhail Youzhny they have two players in the top 13 of the current universe rankings - the only other country who can boast that are holders besides 4.5 favourites Spain.
Five things you might not be learned about Tim Henman
When it comes to native background you'll know all the stuff about dad being a counsel and his great grandmother Ellen Stanwell-Brown owing to the superlative woman to serve overarm at Wimbledon - but did you prize that mum Jane is a costume designer who produced tennis outfits whereas Fred Perry?
His maternal grandmother Susan Billington was besides a Wimbledon tennis great person in the 1950s - and was the remain person to succor underarm at SW19.
He made his crowing visit to Wimbledon at the maturate of six - again still has at home, framed, a epitomize implicated by his Mum of him looking up at core Court.
At school he suffered from osteochondritis, a immense bone condition described in the medical dictionary as "feeling revel in you are undergoing a heart attack."
He invested his tennis improvement in up a chips business pull partnership stow away his agent Jan Felgate andproperty developer Philip Moross, whose projects included Old Essex House, a listed house once owned by the Earl of Essex.
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