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by Holly Anderson • Mar 8, 2010 7:16 PM EST
Just in time for the cessation of nationalistic grumpiness over Olympic medal counts comes the downfall of Great Britain's national tennis team hopes, again. Being British, however, the displeasure is being expressed as politely as possible:
British tennis has fallen far since the nation last won a Davis Cup in 1936, but it hit a new low this weekend with a shock loss to Lithuania in the Davis Cup. British papers are calling it the "most humiliating defeat in their history" and said "the game in Britain has fallen into unacceptable disrepair."
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