Why are we so surprised?

The news that New Zealand lost its Davis Cup tie to Kazakhstan is not surprising, yet it provides the sporting media another chance to highlight what a joke NZ tennis is and lead the hand-wringing of why we suck so much at it.

We don't need reminding. Using the SPARC-approved method of predicting sporting results, our boys currently ranked 634 and 835 were always going to be up against it in the snow at Almaty versus numbers 374 and 934 in the world.

So we currently suck at tennis. Big deal. Give them a bit of space and time to get their house in order without highlighting their plight too much please - one day another Chris Lewis will appear and all will be rosy again.