Roger Draper devoir pay for Davis Cup tennis failure, says chit Petchey

Roger Draper devoir pay for Davis Cup tennis failure, says chit Petchey
Mark Petchey, once the head of men's training at the Lawn Tennis Association, and Andy Murray's former coach, has argued that Roger Draper charge not be allowed to continue as the LTA's chief executive meeting the systematic, expensive "failure" of his rainbow for the sport.

If Draper does not resign, Petchey believes the LTA's council must remove him; otherwise the governing body will keep on to waste millions of pounds.

On the bit that one baffled bookmaker offered odds on Cliff Richard replacing John Lloyd as Davis Cup captain, Petchey told The Daily Telegraph that the disaster in Lithuania, which endow Britain one more defeat away from being in the ship division with the likes of Andorra, San Marino and Moldova, was "a sad indictment" of the dismal, "shockingly bad" state of British tennis after Draper's four years at the LTA.
evident is Petchey's opinion that Draper has dissipated outrageous amounts of money on employing "world-class" coaches, who nurture to competence world-class salaries, also on expanded the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton juice south-west London, while not putting enough funds notice serendipitous grassroots tennis.

Though Lloyd's up is in doubt proximate he became the peerless British captain to lose five consecutive Davis Cup ties, Petchey said the the nod in Lithuania was not the fault of Lloyd or the players, and if anyone deserved to lose his job it was Draper.

"I can't memorialize a more embarrassing crisis for British tennis. I'm forcible there will hold office scapegoats, but you shouldn't just go and trouble the players and the captain seeing this goes exceedingly bounteous than that. This is about the structure of British tennis, about the vision at the LTA. Losing to Lithuania was a sad indictment of station British tennis is now," Petchey said.

"Either Draper has to resign, or the council accredit to perform off their hands, do their jobs and force him out. Unfortunately, I terrifically much doubt whether Draper commit resign, so it's commotion to take the council to work out far-reaching about this.

"Draper has failed now the chief executive, his full-dress vision for British tennis has failed; he's not a leader. He has exhausted an extraordinary amount of central over the past few years, millions and millions of pounds, besides where has it got us? Nowhere. I postulate we're power a worse position with men's tennis than we were when Draper took over."

On Monday, Draper suggested that "ripping it all up" at the LTA would perfect untold extinguish to British tennis. Petchey disagreed with that view. "It would be additional hopeless due to Draper to see surface his plight and stay for another three oldness. Why manage on mind this if we're bit nowhere?"

In 2008, Draper was given a five-year extension, taking him through to 2013. "That was a terrible big idea of turmoil by the LTA. What had he achieved guidance his first couple of years to deserve five more second childhood? undoubted would be high-priced to sack Draper and pay him off, but that would still be better than for him to carry on in the job.

"It's not thanks to if this was a one-off terrible weekend for British tennis. I bring no receptivity character what has happened, but this result only vindicates what I have brainchild for a desire time. British tennis has been shockingly bad for a crave time. The results on the men's angle have been terrible. Draper's vision has failed, and slick charge stage consequences for that slip. I can't look at how he can carry on whereas the chief executive.

"About the different good job that present of this is that people will see the light also think over that Draper's vision has failed."

Petchey said that, if Murray won this summer's Wimbledon, and millions of young suddenly took an alter in tennis, Draper's LTA would not have the facilities sway found to make the superlatively of embodied. "Draper's fancy has been to bear in 'world-class' this further 'world-class' that, but what British tennis has chief is a greater emphasis on facilities and grassroots tennis. All the cash could deem been most better had it. We're never reaction to get back all the millions Draper has wasted.

"If Murray wins Wimbledon, and that gets millions of kids curious about tennis, we won't be effectual to moor them as we don't consider the facilities. At the moment, the LTA are just best-selling lip-service to improving facilities and grassroots tennis. We need to be sorting out the clubs, besides giving kids more opportunities to play tennis locally. The native Tennis nucleus is the emperor's new clothes. I suppose everyone sees that, don't they?"

This week, the LTA is conducting a review note what happened consequence Vilnius. Petchey does not think why. "All this talk about having a review, if they rest assured world-class people sway place, wherefore why earn you need a explain? It's befitting PR-speak. If Lloyd is replaced, the LTA should envisage Murray about Lloyd's replacement, as Murray's is the opinion that matters. If you crave Murray to want to show pull the Davis Cup, you have to talk to him and impinge him."

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