DUBAI, March 7: Andy Roddick, who led the US to regain the Davis Cup after a 12-year interval, has criticised the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for not doing more to reform the competition.

Roddick believes that the Davis Cup is one of, if not the biggest asset that the sport has, and that poor administration is contributing to its losing its biggest names.

Roddick admitted that the Davis Cup format and calendar dates need re-forming.

“But I don’t know about whether it should be a two-week thing,” he said. “Belarus reached the semi-final a couple of years ago, and it paid for a lot for them for about the next ten years. If you have a two-week Davis Cup you are taking that away from a country.”—AFP