Okay let's be honest, the headline of the sporting weekend has to be Great Britain's defeat to those colossals of the tennis world.... Lithuania. Yes the nation whose tennis budget is just £90,000 a year, yes that's right just £90,000 a year, beat a team with a budget of £30 million. It's so depressing it's hard to find the words. Now I attach absolutely no blame to the Davis Cup captain John Lloyd. In fact it's hard to know what he might have done differently.

He has tried to give younger players an opportunity to shine by pushing them forward and encouraging competition. It's just the simple stark truth that despite pots of cash and lines of coaches, they just aren't good enough. And the LTA can't really hide behind Andy Murray either. He left these shores to develop into a fine player, during his formative teenage years in Spain.

Now the women have made significant progress in recent years and have Elena Baltacha and Katie O'Brien in the top 100 to show for their efforts. Anne Keothavong is on the way back after injury after reaching the top 50 last year. But the men continue to spectacularly disappoint. Dan Evans' defeat yesterday in the decisive singles rubber, came against a player who was ranked some 269 places below him. We see so many young stars emerge in situations like that. The trouble is they are rarely British. Laurynas Grigelis, the man who beat Dan Evans, played out of his skin yesterday. He's just 18. Where are the British players like him?

Is it something in the national psyche? An instinctive obsession with fair play that makes a British player lack that extra 5% to make him/her a Grand Slam champion? Why aren't the players hungry for success? Why don't we have a phalanx of young stars desperate to win like the Russians do, where let's face it, the weather is even more inclement. It's difficult to know how many 5 and 10 year plans we have had over the last 70 odd years since Fred Perry won the Wimbledon title, but it is definitely too many. If you have any bright ideas I would truly love to hear them.

So having climbed carefully off my high horse, for fearing of injuring myself, I can also solemnly inform you, that when I wasn't getting furious about events in Lithuania, I did another 5 and a half mile run along the Thames yesterday. My little knees ached and my ankle throbbed, but I loved it.... Honestly the weather was so lovely it made you want to go out and play tennis...... or then again maybe not.......