{"id":289098,"date":"2023-09-18T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=289098"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:36:41","slug":"kids-these-days-andy-murray-unimpressed-by-jack-drapers-davis-cup-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/kids-these-days-andy-murray-unimpressed-by-jack-drapers-davis-cup-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kids these days\u2019: Andy Murray unimpressed by Jack Draper\u2019s Davis Cup celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"
Andy Murray and Jack Draper celebrate with team-mates after Great Britain\u2019s victory <\/p>\n
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Andy Murray was left unimpressed by Jack Draper\u2019s celebrations as the two British tennis players shared a car journey home from a thrilling Davis Cup win over France.<\/p>\n
Great Britain advanced to the last eight of the competition as Dan Evans and Neal Skupski won a deciding tie break against France\u2019s Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.<\/p>\n
Evans and Skupski saved four match points on their way to an eventual 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (8-6) win.<\/p>\n
Given plenty of support from a home crowd at Manchester\u2019s AO Arena, Evans had earlier one his singles tie against Arthur Fils, but Cameron Norrie was beaten by Ugo Humbert to set up the winner-takes-all doubles contest.<\/p>\n
But the British pair delivered for captain Leon Smith, allowing Great Britain to go through to the \u201cFinal Eight\u201d knockout phase of the men\u2019s team competition in Malaga in November.<\/p>\n
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Murray and Draper elected to make a reasonably swift getaway and travel back down to their homes in the south of England.<\/p>\n
A video posted by the Scot to his Instagram story showed the three-time grand slam winner driving his 21-year-old colleague home, with Draper belting out the chorus of The Proclaimers\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Be (500 Miles)\u201d while chugging what appeared to be a beer. <\/p>\n
Murray, in the driver\u2019s seat, wore a frown, before swearing at his younger teammate, later captioning the clip: \u201cKids these days…three and a half hours of this on the way home\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 13,000-strong crowd in Manchester was a record for a Davis Cup tie in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doubles was chaos,\u201d Evans said. \u201cI just kept saying to Neal \u2018we\u2019ve got a chance, we\u2019ve got a chance\u2019 and we both kept going. We stuck together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s emotional. You want to be with these guys in the finals. It\u2019s an immensely proud moment for me and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Britain finished as Group B winners, while Australia also went through having beaten Switzerland on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Serbia, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands complete the Final Eight.<\/p>\n
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