Postpublished at 12:36 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2015
Nice touch from England's cricket team.
A nation united...
Summary
Britain and Belgium tied at 1-1 after first day
Andy Murray beat Ruben Bemelmans 6-3 6-2 7-5
David Goffin beat Kyle Edmund 3-6 1-6 6-2 6-1 6-0
Final in Ghent is best-of-five over three days
GB seeking to win cup for first time since 1936
Postpublished at 12:36 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2015
The matchespublished at 12:36
Image source, .Who's whopublished at 12:35
Image source, .Weekend aheadpublished at 12:33
Right, David Goffin and Kyle Edmund are out to knock up for the first singles rubber in this best of five final.
Each match is a five-setter. This is how we are going to roll this weekend, with the proviso that the team captains can rejig their selections up to an hour before play every day.
That means James Ward could be let loose on the potentially decisive final singles rubber.
Lifting the low roofpublished at 12:32
Image source, Getty ImagesThe International Tennis Federation regulations, external state that there must be 12 metres between the top of the net and the ceiling on indoor courts in the Davis Cup World Group.
According to the Guardian's man on the ground,, external the ceiling girders at at the Flanders Expo centre are a few centimetres shy of that.
A couple of Team GB's practice groundstrokes have hit the rafters already this week.
I can feel an appeal coming on if Belgium win. Let's not send it off to ITF HQ just yet though...
Postpublished at 12:32 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2015
John Lloyd
Former Davis Cup player on BBC Two"This is a once in a lifetime, it could be the only time Great Britain ever get in this position. What an atmosphere."
Anthem timepublished at 12:28
Image source, Getty ImagesIt is the final, so just one singer does not cut it for national ditty time.
A 10-strong choir belts out the two national anthems. The Belgians link arms, the Brits do not.
Britain's fans seem to have sneaked a few extra tickets over and above their 1,300 allocation. There is a very healthy red, white and blue contingent.
Postpublished at 12:26
Miles Maclagan
British tennis coach on Radio 5 live earlier todayOn importance of Andy Murray:
“There's massive pressure and there has been right the way through. He's expected to win the three points really - that's what this whole run has been based on and it's very underestimated how much pressure he's been under.”
On Kyle Edmund:
“Goffin is the favourite. He's a real class player but they've all been saying how well Kyle Edmund has been playing. The key thing for him is he's got a big game. I'm sure Leon Smith will say to him 'listen you've got nothing to lose'. He'll be taking all the pressure of Kyle and giving him a free reign to play."
Get involvedpublished at 12:25 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2015
#bbctennis
Apolline: The next 3 days as a Belgian living in Britain will be challenging with the Davis Cup final. Come on Belgium.
Pippa Jeffcock: Famous Belgians. Only men as usual (and Papa Smurf). Break with tradition: Kim Clijsters and Justin Henin are quite famous too.
Postpublished at 12:25 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2015
Ghent gets busypublished at 12:22
Who said Belgium is boring? Wash your mouths out...
An excellent bit of staging at the Flanders Expo centre as a dramatic countdown is projected onto giant white drapes hiding the court.
As we click down to zero, the curtains drop to the floor and it is revealed that the players are already on court, lined up with flags, ballkids, umpires and pomp and ceremony ready to go.
The Belgium king and queen come on to meet the two teams before the dance music starts pumping and the rhythmic clapping begins.
It's lively out there...
Davis Cup veteranspublished at 12:22
Image source, .The dapper chaps in the picture above are, British tennis players Fred Perry, Bunny Austin, Pat Hughes and H G N Lee holding the Davis Cup with captain Henry Roper Barrett on arrival at the quayside Dover, in 1933.
They won it again three years late but since then... it has been a long old wait.
Postpublished at 12:19
"David Cup final"? - we have all done it James Ward.
As an Arsenal fan, he may not have appreciated it but Tottenham held their own Ben Davies Cup final featuring a British team of Dele Alli and Luke McGee facing Belgium's Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld in a game of foot tennis.
Not good news for Leon Smith's men I'm afraid. A 3-0 win for the boys from the Belge. , external
Ward as GB's supersubpublished at 12:18
Russell Fuller
BBC tennis correspondent on Radio 5 live sports extra"Because of the way Kyle Edmund is playing, it is the right decision to play him on Friday but I am reassured James Ward is there to potentially come in on Sunday if it gets very tense."
"A remarkable achievement"published at 12:17
Miles Maclagan
British tennis coach on Radio 5 live sports extra"We struggled to get past the first round with players like Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski in the team.
"This is a remarkable achievement. Done off the back of some amazing achievements from Andy Murray."
You can listen by clicking on the live coverage tab on this page.
Postpublished at 12:16 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2015
David Goffinpublished at 12:15
Image source, Getty ImagesDavid Goffin, not to be easily mistaken with American music mogul David Geffen, external, is the man over the other side of the net to Edmund.
The 24-year-old is ranked 16th in the world - 84 places higher than his British opponent.
You may remember him from such high-profile appearances at Wimbledon as 2012 - when he made the third round as a 21-year-old - or 2014 - when he was defending champion Andy Murray's first-round victim - or 2015 - when he made the fourth round for the first time.
Cometh the hour, cometh the boypublished at 12:10
Image source, Getty ImagesKyle Edmund only started to play tennis as a way for his parents to keep him busy while his sister was swimming.
'Kedders' becomes the first player to make his Davis Cup debut in a final since Feliciano Lopez appeared for Spain in defeat by Australia in 2003.
The bad news first. Of the five men to have previously made their Davis Cup debut in a final, none won a live rubber.
However Edmund, 20, has had recent success as the bad guy on a clay court, beating three Argentines in Buenos Aires on his way to lifting a Challenger title earlier this month.
That run of form sees him preferred to the more experienced James Ward.
Ghent getting livelypublished at 12:07
Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Flanders Expo
Image source, ."After three damp, low-key days in beautiful Ghent, the city had the feeling of a sporting host this morning as Union Jack-clad fans found their way onto the number one tram to Flanders Expo.
"Polite but thorough security was negotiated and inside they found a cavernous hangar, now adorned with a 'British Pub' and hordes of Belgians blowing air horns. It will be noisy, that much is guaranteed, and fascinating to see how debutant Kyle Edmund handles it."
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BBC SportBritain's tilt at glory is coming at you from all angles on the BBC today.
The hamster is already running around the BBC Radio 5 live sports extra wheel to bring you live radio coverage from Ghent. Hit the play icon at the top of this page to get it live in your lugholes.
BBC Two join the party fashionably late at 12:15 GMT.