Doubles great Mark Woodforde believes Australian tennis fans could get the rare pleasure of watching Lleyton Hewitt's Davis Cup team in action on home courts next year.
And 17-time grand slam champion Woodforde, now an influential international official, hopes Tennis Australia will grab the chance to bid to host one of the week-long, four-team group stages of tennis's biggest men's team event next September.
The news follows Hewitt's men reaching - and losing - their second final in successive years, this time to Italy, in Malaga on Sunday.