Lleyton Hewitt's pride in his Australian team's achievement in reaching the Davis Cup finals has been accompanied by another withering tirade against organisers he believes have "really screwed up" the once-revered team competition.
At the end of another week when the 'men's tennis World Cup' format was bitterly criticised for small crowds attending ties at neutral venues around Europe, Aussie captain Hewitt sighed that the event had turned into a "disaster".
His team are among the eight who've qualified for the knock-out finals in Malaga in November - but Hewitt, a vehement critic of the changes to the venerable event's format, is far from alone in despairing at the fact hosts Spain won't be there.
