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3/5/10 3:03 PM | Johan Lindahl
It's getting personal in the battle for Australian tennis administrative supremacy, with chances now flying back and forth between former Davis Cup mates.
Paul McNamee, the former Australian Open tournament director and candidate for the top job at Tennis Australia, has received a serve from one-time mate John Fitzgerald, captain of the current Davis side.
McNamee says he was part of the solution as Lleyton Hewitt made his amends in recent days with current teenaged boy wonder Bernard Tomic, ending a feud between the tennis generations which had
simmered for nine months and poisoned the Australian game.
The claim - Mac says he was in the room when the wounds were healed - has been slammed by Fitzy, who says it was nothing like that.
McNamee faces an election later this year to try and wrest the top job in the federation, needs all the friends he can get for voting later in 2010 and can't understand where his former mate in coming from.
"It's just so good for the sport that it's been sorted out," McNamee told local media of the bad blood over a Wimbledon practise session snub between Hewitt and Tomic, tipped as the future of the Aussie game. He called Fitzgerald's claim that McNamee had nothing to to with the affair "extraordinary."
Fitzgerald said that Tomic has has no contact with McNamee. "He hasn't heard from Paul or anyone and I don't know whether there's any self-promotion around from any corners of the tennis community.
"All I know is that Paul hasn't had anything to do with this Davis Cup team, not for the last 10 years and not now. I want to make that very clear."
Retorted McNamee: "I was there, so that's all I can say. If I'm there, I'm there. It's extraordinary."
Australia is fighting for life in the lower Asian zonal Davis Cup this weekend, holding a lead over Taiwan thanks to a singles win from Tomic.
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