Swiss Davis Cup dreams clouded by injury and row reports


  • Tennis
  • Monday, 17 Nov 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - Switzerland's potential Davis Cup fairytale this weekend has become clouded by uncertainty over the fitness of Roger Federer and suggestions of strained relations between the all-time great and his team mate Stanislas Wawrinka.

The country is on tenterhooks to learn whether its favourite son Federer, struggling with a back injury, can recover from injury in time to cap his matchless individual career by joining Wawrinka and winning a first team 'World Cup' for his nation against France in Lille.

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