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Mon 03 Mar 2010Ireland plans to face Britain unravel
TENNIS DAVIS CUP:IRELAND KEPT up their end of the bargain in the weekend’s Davis Cup at Fitzwilliam but the best laid plans by Irish tennis came tumbling down when Britain lost 3-2 to Lithuania and headed towards relegation from the Europe-African Group Two Division of the competition.
While team captain Seán Sorensen was congratulating his Irish team for a commanding 4-1 win over Turkey without his highest ranked player, the captain’s injured son Louk Sorensen, Tennis Ireland’s plans to provide a stadium court for the visit of Britain and Andy Murray were put away for another time.
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