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Play at a high risk of Fitzgerald to quit as Davis Cup captain last week to run for office took over 49 years Monday.
The was elected to one of three vacancies on the board of BP Melbourne, re-elected with advertising mogul Harold Mitchell and another holder Graeme Holloway.Current player Alicia Molik and former Davis Cup coach Wally Masur both failed to win points on board.
Sydney lawyer Steve Healy also formally took over as president of AT as part of a sequence of long-term projects of Geoff Pollard, who retired after 21 years in increasing job.Fitzgerald has finally responded to calls for assistance to choose a tennis player or someone contemporary face of the sport on the board of an organization often criticized for its lack of inclusion of players.
The current time and the last time Davis Cup tennis, the Australian captain admits men with a single male in the top 100 is now paying the price of its previous editions and struggle.
Fitzgerald said that reforms in the last five years for men and women play began to recover to an acceptable level in the world.But is a warning Do not wait another type washing time Hoad, Rosewall, is simply not possible . "There is no simple solution for the production of the players ranked in the top 10 or top five in the world," said Fitzgerald.
"There's a throwaway line to say that we should be competitive with what we did in the 60s, and there is some ignorance, because it is a different playing field a polar field is now to play against. The" We have more than 130 nations to play Davis Cup every year. "This is not a sport" of 10 countries.
This is probably the second biggest sport in the world after soccer and compete at this level you need for all abilities and organizational development and processes for the competition. "It will not happen overnight. But we've got a good group of juniors coming through now that are probably the best group we've had in 15 years.
"The influential Mitchell's re-election is also positive news for TA after the country's largest media buyer played a pivotal role in boosting Australian Open broadcasting revenues.With a new president, new blood into the board and a new combination of Pat Rafter and Tony Roche operation of the Davis Cup team, Fitzgerald believes everything you need in tennis in Australia to support the reforms of the past five years.
"I was critical of the process before that time we have not received sufficient support from top to bottom in the last five years," said Fitzgerald. "I think we now have in place procedures and structures that give us a real opportunity to develop good players for a long period of time."
