Britain Investigating Davis Cup Loss to Lithuania

The loss was Britain's ffth in a row under Lloyd and it now has to beat Turkey to avoid dropping into the lowest tier of the competition.

Although the Lawn Tennis Association said it would make a quick response to the loss, player director Steve Martens said no decisions had yet been made.



Greg Rusedski

"Clearly we have to be swift and decisive. But it is very important that in the heat of the battle you don't do anything emotional,'' he said. "We have to be looking at this together with the captain, reviewing where we were with our players, where we were with our selection, where we were with the preparation of the players. "That is exactly what we'll do over the next few days and the captain will be a full part of that.''

Lloyd said after Sunday's defeat in Vilnius he was considering his future after Britain playing without Andy Murray who skipped the match lost to a Lithuania team which has only three players ranked in the top 1,000.

But Martens said the LTA had not yet looked at replacing Lloyd and taking on Rusedski, a former U.S. Open runner-up who has turned to coaching promising British players. "We have had no direct contact at all (with Rusedski),'' Martens said. "I think it would also be very disrespectful to a guy like John to do that.

"Greg is a fantastic coach, he works with us, he's fully on board working with some of the male players and John so far has been fully in the loop in everything we do.''