Lleyton Hewitt has not backed down amid his two-week ban for pushing a doping official last year and has now levelled complaints at the ITF and the Davis Cup for their running of the event.
Hewitt who captains Australia's Davis Cup team has been one of the strongest opponents towards changes over the years to the event which saw it deviate from the old format ditching the home and away format. It saw teams either play at home or in their opponent's country. Now it's best of three sets and a lot of ties are played at neutral venues.
As Hewitt said himself, it was a change brought in when Gerard Pique's Kosmos ran the show for a little while until legal action forced them out. A move that Hewitt still reiterates sold the soul of the event. Now he has accused them of lying over the event re