Andy Murray dedicates Davis Cup win to recently passed Gran

An emotional Andy Murray revealed he missed his grandmother's funeral to help Great Britain to victory against Switzerland in the Davis Cup.

Murray battled to a 6-7 (7) 6-4 6-4 victory over debutant Leandro Riedi in three hours and 10 minutes at Manchester's AO Arena before breaking down in tears during his on-court interview.

"Today is a tough day for me, it's my gran's funeral today," he said. "I'm sorry to my family that I'm not able to be there but gran, this one's for you."

Murray then returned to his bench where he sat sobbing into his towel.

Asked in his press conference later whether he had considered not playing, the Scot said: "I spoke to my dad about it and he said that she'd want you to play. He just said make sure you win, so I did."

Cameron Norrie was then beaten 7-5 6-4 by Stan Wawrinka but Britain have one foot in the finals week in Malaga in November after Dan Evans and Neal Skupski won the deciding doubles rubber 6-3 6-3.

The circumstances of Murrray's victory made his efforts in coming through another long and tense battle even more impressive.

The 36-year-old had only lost three of his previous 35 singles matches in the competition and never to a player ranked as low as world number 152 Riedi, but the big-hitting 21-year-old produced a performance well above that.

Having seen his gamble to play debutant Jack Draper and Evans handsomely pay off in Wednesday's victory over Australia, captain Leon Smith made use of his options by naming Murray and Norrie as his singles players here.

Murray played singles against Kazakhstan at the same stage last year but only once Britain were already eliminated, making this his first live singles rubber in the competition since 2019 and only his second in seven years.

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