Anand Amritraj rues evening start to Spain tie

Updated on: 08 September,2016 08:02 AM IST |
PTI |

The evening start for the Davis Cup tie against Spain has caught the Indian team by surprise with captain Anand Amritraj calling it an "unfortunate" decision that has compromised the country's home advantage. The singles matches will begin at 5 pm and the doubles at 7 pm

Anand Amritraj

New Delhi: The evening start for the Davis Cup tie against Spain has caught the Indian team by surprise with captain Anand Amritraj calling it an "unfortunate" decision that has compromised the country's home advantage. The singles matches will begin at 5 pm and the doubles at 7 pm.

Non-playing captain Amritraj said neither he nor the players were consulted before the timing was decided for the Play-off-tie, beginning September 16. "I was not consulted about the timing of the matches and I am pretty sure the players were not either.

"We like hot conditions and playing in the evening works better for Spain," Amritraj said. "I think the general feeling is that the Spanish team is so better than us that it doesn't make much of a difference whether we play in the heat of the day or in the evening.

"That is unfortunate because we should try to give our team every advantage possible, whether it's the surface or time of day as we did against Korea. This is Davis Cup and strange things can happen," fulminated Amritraj.

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