A memorable tennis year ended on Sunday with the underdogs Spain beating Argentina and it was a great 3 days of tension packed tennis. Working for Sky Sports we follow the World group of the Davis Cup through its entirety and have been fortunate that this year we’ve been to a variety of places with different cultures. We started in Moscow in the 1st Round where Russia beat Serbia (with Djokovic), the 2nd round took us to Winston Salem in the USA (the home of Crispy Crème donuts and they were good) where the defending champions USA beat France. After the hectic period in the summer the semi final resumed and in Madrid, Spain beat the Americans in the bull ring with 20,000 passionate Spanish supporters, they were as loud as I’ve ever experienced, similar decibels to the big football matches.


The day after the Masters Cup final we left a very cold London on Monday 17th November for the Davis Cup final between Argentina and Spain in Argentina. On the trips to Davis Cup the Sky team consists of 2 commentators, Barry Millns and myself, a producer and a sound technician. To get to Mar Del Plata from Buenos Aires for the final it was 5 hours by coach or 40 mins by plane. We all thought it was a great decision by the ITF (who run the Davis Cup) to take the plane until we pulled up to it. After 10 years on the circuit the small planes were the ones which used to terrify me, and nothing has changed. There were 14 people crammed on the plane (and I’m looking terrified on the left as I look to Barry Millns who is always a nervous flyer anyway, Photo to follow). I was almost on my hands and knees to actually get in the plane and sweaty palms were had by all of us fearful we wouldn’t arrive in 1 piece. Thankfully we survived the journey and after nearly 24 hours of travelling we arrived on Tuesday afternoon in Mar Del Plata a picturesque city on the coast.