Tony Hawks adds to pressure on LTAs Roger Draper

By Mark Hodgkinson 1057PM GMT thirteen Mar 2010

Under vigour Roger Draper has nonetheless to spin around British tennis Photo DANIEL JONES

Hawks, who will residence the all-party parliamentary tennis organisation at the House of Commons, has created of his frustrations with Draper, together with alleging that the arch senior manager once systematic him out of a meeting.

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Hawks has since a essence of what he will contend when he addresses the row of MPs and peers. Hawks has created that, in Mar 2008, he attended a assembly with Draper, with the sports apportion Gerry Sutcliffe and with one alternative MP, at that Draper is pronounced to have betrothed to assistance "Tennis for free".

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According to Hawks, Draper did not follow by on the promises that he had done to him and to the sports minister. When Hawks met Draper during the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Draper is pronounced to have finished the assembly abruptly, revelation him "Get out of my bureau now."

Less than a week after the chagrin of Great Britain"s Davis Cup better by Lithuania it emerged that Sutcliffe had asked the all-party organisation to inspect the LTA"s activities to safeguard that the ruling physique were creation the most appropriate make use of of open money.

In a created reply to The Sundayabout Hawks"s allegations, Draper pronounced "Getting some-more people in to tennis isn"t about personalities. It"s about identifying the barriers, and afterwards operative to remove them.

"If you see at the facts, fasten a tennis bar is comparatively cheap. On normal it costs only �2.50 a month for adults to play, and less than �1 for children, and that"s customarily for total justice time. But not everybody has a internal bar that"s simply accessible, that is because the Tennis Foundation is operative closely with internal authorities to inspire them to yield some-more free tennis.

"Projects similar to "Tennis for free" are additionally you do a utilitarian job, and we are now in discussions with them about appropriation five commander projects opposite the country. Next month, we"ll have sum of each play ground court, and each bar in the country, accessible on the LTA website. That map will shortly brand that courts are free of charge, and when."