Brothers in armspublished at 13:47
Thankfully for Great Britain, the Murray brothers have teamed up to turn their aggression on the rest of the world since then.
They first played together at senior level in 2005, coming together to represent Scotland against England's Gred Rusedski and David Sherwood in the now-defunct Aberdeen Cup.
This season, 10 years on, they have defeated Nicolas Mahut and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and then Sam Groth and Lleyton Hewitt of Australia in key doubles rubbers to take Great Britain to their first Davis Cup final since 1978
Today, they play Belgians David Goffin and Steve Darcis, hoping to move Britain with a whisker of lifting the grand old pot for the first time in 79 years.