Stircrazy wrote:

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I was convinced I'd seen a thread on here about the resignation of Roger "Waste of space" Draper as Chief Executive of the LTA in March, but can't find it & haven't the time to trawl through too many previous pages, hence this new one.  OEM (aka Neil Harman) had both a front-page column ("Search for new British tennis chief hits the net" - subscription required) in today's Times, but also an article on one of the inside pages which takes up about two-thirds of a page describing the signal lack of success in appointing a successor for Draper under the headline "Fumbled search for a leader mars finest hour of British tennis" (can't find it on the site, so no link).

It seems Draper picked up a salary of £640,000 last year, including a bonus of something like £200,000! What in God's name did he do to warrant that?   It also seems that two people who were invited to apply for the position (David Lloyd & Andy's preferred candidate, Chris Kermode, the tournament director of the Aegon Championships at Queen's & also the man responsible for delivering the World Tour Finals at the O2) fell at the first hurdle & that the LTA is no further forward than it was when Draper resigned in March...   I give up!  The "shambles" reference comes from his Twitter feed.

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Found the original thread so merged this into it.

They were supposed to be doing final interviews during Wimbledon, so I wonder what happened - maybe they offered the job to someone and it was refused and now nobody else wants it because they're seen as second best. Of course, much of the shambles might have been avoided if the media hadn't aired spurious 'leaks' about it, but there you go, that's life.