Saturday, April 25, 2009

Davis Cup news

Australia has pulled out of the Davis cup tie in India (@ Chennai). Until the security hue and cry, I did not even know that the Davis cup matches were going to be held locally. Given it is a question of protecting a small contingent for 4-5 days, and a small crowd, I don't think it should have been a problem (unlike IPL with 100s or players, multiple locations and huge crowds for several weeks).
Several australian cricketers also transitted/trained in India before the IPL. So this move is bit surprising.

3 comments:

Viswanathan said...

The tennis players are not payed as well as the Australian IPL players.

rs said...

yes, to come to India :)

straight point said...

when you have to play tennis in scorching heat in chennai...coming from the comforts of home... 'security' issues does come up...