Two-Time Davis Cup Winner Pat Cash Calls Out TA's Treatment Of Former Players

Pat Cash "has taken a swipe at Tennis Australia" as he prepares to help the U.S. "seek Fed Cup glory," according to Murray Wenzel of the AAP. A two-time Davis Cup winner for Australia in the '80s, Cash was invited to assist the U.S. team at the Fed Cup final in Belarus later this week "due to his role" as coach of American player Coco Vandeweghe. Overlooked "as an option to captain Australia's Davis Cup side" in retirement, Cash could not "resist a jab." He said, "I get invited along (to Davis Cup), get the courtesy 'by the way here's a ticket,' but never an airfare or hotel, which is disappointing. I think the way they treat their ex-players in tennis in general -- and Australian tennis is no different -- is pretty poor. I've been in the American camp for I don't know how many minutes and am already being treated better than the Australians have treated me" (AAP, 11/6).