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Fed Cup: Heather Watson beats Diana Marcinkevica to give GB lead

Heather Watson gave Great Britain a 1-0 lead in their best-of-three Fed Cup match with Latvia in Estonia.

Watson, the world number 72, beat 307th-ranked Diana Marcinkevica 6-3 6-0 in 61 minutes in the day's first match.

World number 10 Johanna Konta plays 35th-ranked Jelena Ostapenko, before Jocelyn Rae and Laura Robson play Marcinkevia and Ostapenko.

Great Britain beat Portugal 3-0 on Wednesday, and face Turkey in their final group match on Friday.

Unlike the men's team competition, the Davis Cup, which has a World Group of 16 nations, the Fed Cup divides its top teams into two groups of eight - World Group I and World Group II.