Brewerton surprised by her lead.

SPORT ROUND-UP BECKY BREWERTON surprised herself by taking the midway lead in the Randstad Open de France GOLF tournament.

Abergele's Brewerton, who featured on the losing side in the recent Solheim Cup, carded a second-round 67.

It moved her to seven under par, a shot clear of Spain's Ana Larraneta, Caroline Afonso of France and Austrian Nicole Gergely.

"I'm quite surprised to be honest," Brewerton, 26, said. "Coming into this week normally I'm happy to get around so being relaxed and not expecting too much might have helped."

The 26-year-old observed: "The course is playing a bit different this year. The fairways are quite firm and the greens are soft. It's working really well.

"I'm hitting it a long way off the tee and it's making it a lot easier."

ANDY MURRAY admits he could be jeopardising the rest of his TENNIS season by playing in Britain's Davis Cup relegation play-off against Poland.

The world number three is representing his country in the tie at Liverpool's Echo Arena despite an injury to his left wrist.

Murray had little trouble dispatching the world number 678 Michal Przysiezny 6-4 6-2 6-4 in yesterday's singles rubber.

That was only good enough to put Britain level at 1-1 in the tie going into today's doubles, as rookie Dan Evans lost his singles match 6-3 6-3 7-6 (7/5) to Jerzy Janowicz.

Murray said: "I found myself holding back quite a lot and I'm very conscious of it. I'm going to wait and see how it feels.

"If I feel fine, I'll play (doubles).

"I don't want to sacrifice the lot to play in the tie and end up hurting myself so badly that I can't play for a few months."

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North Wales' Becky Brewerton