Summary

  • Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski lose to Rafael Nadal & Feliciano Lopez in decisive doubles

  • Nadal beats GB number one Dan Evans 6-4 6-0 to level tie

  • Kyle Edmund had beaten Spain's Lopez 6-3 7-6 (7-3) to give GB 1-0 lead

  • Andy Murray left out again by captain Leon Smith

  • Lopez a late replacement for Pablo Carreno Busta who felt unwell

Live Reporting

Alex Bysouth

  1. Miles Maclagan
    Former British Davis Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    It’s been a very tight match – both teams landing above 80% first serves.

  2. Tie-break

    GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-6 (1-0) Spain*

    Leaping, smashing volley from Jamie Murray. GB off the mark.

  3. Spain hold from set point down

    *GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-6 (0-0) Spain

    Two hours into this semi-final decider and Rafael Nadal pulls off a huge, huge hold of serve.

    From a set point down, Spain take it to a tie-break.

  4. GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-5 Spain*

    All in the eyes from Rafa Nadal.

    Jamie Murray goes inside and Nadal picks him off down the line.

    The world number one saves the break. Deuce.

  5. GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-5 Spain*

    Ooh! So close from Neal Skupski. He read the Nadal serve and fired it agonisingly wide. But then Lopez miscues, a bad miss from the Spaniard.

    Set point Great Britain.

  6. GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-5 Spain*

    Framer from the world number one. Great Britain sensing an opportunity - mini-break at 15-30.

  7. Jonathan Jurejko
    BBC Sport at Caja Mágica

    The British pair have only dropped two points on serve in this set. If they get a chance on the Spanish serve...

  8. GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-5 Spain*

    What a point!

    Rafael Nadal lines up forehand after forehand but finds a dark blue and white wall at the net, all after Feliciano Lopez had played a volley around his back.

    Murray and Skupski stand firm. 0-15.

  9. Miles Maclagan
    Former British Davis Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Again GB should be confident in the tie-break. They’ve lost just two points in this set. They’ve really found their rhythm.

  10. GB 6-7 (3-7) 6-5 Spain*

    Neal Skupski and Great Britain hold to love. This set is going the distance.

  11. *GB 6-7 (3-7) 5-5 Spain

    There's a chorus of hissing inside the stadium, those ushering those to be quiet now causing most of the noise... Lopez gives a knowing look to the pocket of spectators it's coming from.

    He can't do anything to quieten Jamie Murray though, the Brit roars on to a winning volley.

    30-0.

  12. *GB 6-7 (3-7) 5-5 Spain

    Spain hold.

    Feliciano Lopez ups the pace and intensity and fires his country to a big, big hold.

  13. GB 6-7 (3-7) 5-4 Spain*

    Back come the Spaniards, capitalising on a loose return, but somehow Jamie Murray - with both British players on the same side of the court - makes a mid-court ball and slaps it beyond the stranded Spanish pair. Cat-like reactions from the Brit.

  14. GB 6-7 (3-7) 5-4 Spain*

    Spain serving to stay in the second set...

    It remains on serve, mind.

    Jamie Murray throws a limb at a high ball to get the Brits off the mark. 0-15.

  15. Miles Maclagan
    Former British Davis Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    They’ve been really active at the net, this British pair. They’ve never allowed the Spanish to settle on their returns.

    They are playing very tidy tennis right now. Landing a lot of first serves.

  16. GB 6-7 (3-7) 5-4 Spain*

    Good stuff again from Jamie Murray. He holds to love.

    Dan Evans on the sideline is living every shot.

  17. *GB 6-7 (3-7) 4-4 Spain

    No way! Surely Nadal hasn't made that... no, he hasn't, but it was almost magical. A forehand around the net, barely off the ground. Almost wanted that to find the target just for the audacity of it. It's a brief blip - he holds and then gets the crowd going by waving his arms towards them.

  18. Jonathan Jurejko
    BBC Sport at Caja Mágica

    Andy Murray is out of his nervous paralysis. The Scot climbs to his feet for, possibly, the first time in the whole match and barks out encouragement to his brother and Neal Skupski.

  19. GB 6-7 (3-7) 4-3 Spain*

    Wow. That Rafael Nadal ace steamed past Jamie Murray like a Shinkansen in full flight. Blink and you'd have missed it. Neal Skupski gets bat on the next one though and Murray follows up behind him to wrong-foot Feli Lopez. 40-15.

  20. Miles Maclagan
    Former British Davis Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Just two points against the British serve in this set so far – it’s very convincing. But they need to capitalise.