Lleyton Hewitt has been allowed to captain Australia in this weekend’s Davis Cup match in Sydney despite being hit with a fine and a ban for “offensive conduct” at a previous tie when he pushed a volunteer doping control official against a wall.

The 44-year old grand slam great was on Wednesday handed a two-week suspension and $A30,000 fine after being found guilty by an independent tribunal of pushing the 60-year-old anti-doping chaperone in an incident following Australia’s semi-final defeat by Italy in Malaga last year.

The tribunal recommended one-third of the fine ($A10,000) received by the ITIA should be paid on to the chaperone “in compensation for the stress, discomfort and embarrassment of the incident”.

The official has since said he will never volunteer at a tie again, with

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