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Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley decided to stay silent on Monday and allow Masur to express the Federations support towards Hewitt, defending the current Davis Cup captain and standing on the same side with him concerning the questionable disposal of the Australian Open wild cards.
Thanasi Kokkinakis, who has been struggling with injuries for a couple of years now, had to play in the qualifying draw while Alex Bolt, Alexei Popyrin, Jason Kubler, Marc Polmans and James Duckworth all secured the main draw invitation before him.
Tomic wasnt happy about that decision either, saying Hewitt has built a team of players around him, playing doubles with them and granting them invitations for the home tournaments. Lleytons not afraid of hard work.
You saw that in his playing career and hes doing it as Davis Cup captain. He has the support of Tennis Australia, . Hes a tremendous worker and he responds to people that are prepared to meet him halfway.
I was watching a lot of tennis yesterday on Monday, there were some good stories so it was disappointing to wake up and read those Tomics comments. A lot of people are under the apprehension that players are contracted to Tennis Australia and we control players and thats just not the case.
When you get out on tour, you get the ranking and nobody or no federation or individuals can stop you and thats the beauty of the sport. We support them on their journey and at some point they become self-funding and they run their own race.
Thats where were at with Bernie as well. Theres quite a process to picking wildcards. You look at form, fitness.. rankings, results. You look at age and attitude. Theyre very individual decisions based on the nominations from Lleyton.
Thanasi didnt get one and Im sure he was disappointed but he sucked it up, didnt say a word, went out there and smashed it and won his qualifying. Credit to him for that.
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