British captain John Lloyd faces a tall task against Lithuania in Vilnius, as he’s trying to prevent his nation from losing five successive ties for the first time in 110 years.
Lloyd is without top player Andy Murray and also lost Jamie Baker to injury this week.
Britain will field No. 250 James Ward and No. 252 Dan Evans against Ricardas Berankis, a former junior No. 1 who recently reached the San Jose quarters, and No. 521 Laurynas Grigelis.
Tim Henman, Greg Rusedski and Murray are the only British players to win a live Davis Cup singles rubber since 1997.
“I know that if we lose, there will be calls for me to go, I’m realistic enough to know that,” said Lloyd. I don’t know if I’ll want to carry on. I would have to see if I had the support of the locker room and that would obviously involve Andy as well.
"He may be taking Davis Cup on a match-by-match basis, but he’s the superstar and what he says will have an enormous bearing.”