Bernard Tomic has committed to this month’s Davis Cup quarter-final against Kazakhstan but launched an extraordinary attack on Tennis Australia.
After threatening to boycott the tie, Tomic has backflipped. He said he would play out of respect for retiring champion Lleyton Hewitt and the prestige of the century-old competition, despite claiming to have been abandoned by TA.
Hitting back in sensational fashion after Pat Rafter vowed to stop the governing body’s funding to the Tomic family, including his younger sister Sara, Tomic described Australia’s director of performance as a “mask” for TA boss Craig Tiley.