The Davis Cup final between Belgium and Great Britain
will go ahead despite Brussels being placed on maximum alert over the threat of
an imminent attack, local organisers said on Monday.
The British team, featuring Andy and Jamie Murray, are
bidding to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 and will face
Belgium, who have never won the competition, on clay in the city of Ghent, some
55 km (34 miles) northeast of Brussels.
Tennis Vlaanderen, which administers tennis in the
region, has already talked to the interior ministry, police and independent
security experts.
"It's definitely going ahead," a spokeswoman
said.
She added that the public would be advised about
security measures on Tuesday for the final, to be played from Friday to Sunday.
Soldiers were patrolling the streets of Brussels,
where shopping centres and schools were closed, on the third day of a security
lockdown, as police hunted a suspected Islamist militant on the run since the
Nov. 13 Paris attacks.
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