Murray let down by his team-mates
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ANDY Murray insists his Great Britain team-mates need to display more passion if they are to resurrect their Davis Cup fortunes.
Murray, pictured below, won both his singles matches in the 3-2 defeat by Austria on the grass of Wimbledon which relegated Britain from the world group and consigned them to the Europe/Africa zone where they could play countries such as Georgia, Latvia or Macedonia.
The Scot saw British No.2 Alex Bogdanovic lose both his singles and the doubles pairing of Jamie Murray and Ross Hutchins lose tamely in straight sets on Saturday.
And Murray believes the defeat had as much to do with a lack of fire as talent.
He said: “I have showed I love playing the Davis Cup. In both my matches I showed a lot of emotion and got the crowd involved.
“You have to do that in Davis Cup, especially when you have home ties, take advantage of the crowd. The guys in the other matches didn’t get the crowd involved as much as I would have liked.
“When Alex went behind we didn’t see any fist pumps.
“I want to see that you want to get the crowd involved and are desperate to win the match. It shows that you are giving 110%.
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