glasgow could yet host britain’s glamour davis cup quarter final with france in july – if team gb opt to put atmosphere ahead of a desire to play on grass andy murray led the home team to victory over usa in front of 7,500 passionate fans at the emirates arena on sunday and, with all three days sold out in a matter of minutes, there is an obvious desire to see scotland’s greatest active sportsman in action again murray himself expressed a preference for facing the french on grass – but said: ‘i think grass might be a good surface, but we’ll have to see, because playing in front of a crowd like this also makes a difference and it helps andy murray celebrates extravagantly during his straight sets win over john isner on sunday  great britain supporters would relish supporting murray and co in glasgow again in july  all three day's of davis cup action at the emirates arena were sold out in a matter of minutes  if we can’t guarantee that at a grass venue maybe it makes sense to play it somewhere we can get that’ gb captain leon smith, a glaswegian himself, said there was ‘no chance’ of finding or creating a suitably large outdoor venue – a minimum of 600 seats are required – in order to bring a grass court tie to scotland but he added: ‘i say no chance but i’m not a lawn expert so, if someone can tell me there’s a chance, i’m sure we would explore it gb captain leon smith doubts the chances of glasgow being able to create a larger grass court venue  smith embraces with  murray after the latter's straight sets win secured gb's quarter final berth  murray (middle) is looked on in envy by his fellow gb team mates after securing a tie against france  'internally, we’ve looked at other options, thinking outside the box ‘the first thing i need to do, over the next week or two, is think about the best surface andy said grass there but we need to sit as a group, look at the likely french team and think about what’s best ‘then we have to go somewhere with a great atmosphere if it’s indoor hard, why not here – or somewhere near here? something like this, it definitely worked in scotland 'you have to look at when the tie lands in the summer, too ‘there will have been an awful lot of tennis in certain regions, so you want to put it somewhere people have the hunger for more tennis we’ll be phoning around like mad ‘ultimately you go with the surface that gives you the best chance of winning the atmosphere is great – but it will be even better to be in the semi finals ‘we’ve got to pick a surface that all the players agree on we’ll put our heads together over the next week, then go to the suits and ask them to make it happen’
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great britain face france in the davis cup quarter finals in july . this tie could be held in glasgow if gb decide atmosphere outweighs the desire to play on a grass court . their 3 2 win over the usa was played inside the emirates arena . andy murray admits his preference is grass, but that playing in glasgow again with the crowd behind them could be crucial . gb captain leon smith doubts the prospects of creating a suitably large outdoor venue in order to have a grass court in glasgow 