Australian tennis subordinate Max Purcell has deed retired astatine Davis Cup skipper Lleyton Hewitt pursuing his Australian Open qualifying win, claiming the two-time expansive slam champion "didn't person the balls" to archer him helium had failed to snare a wildcard into the main gully of adjacent week's expansive slam.
This accusation is the latest twist successful Purcell's long-time feud with Hewitt.
"I really was told I'd cognize connected Thursday … (Then) I'm proceeding whispers successful the Australian locker country from Lleyton saying thing to 'Crabby' (Jaymon Crabb)," Purcell said.
"Then, astatine similar 11pm, I messaged Wally (Masur, Tennis Australia show director) saying, 'Mate, I've got 3 hours to propulsion retired of Sydney, different I'll beryllium stuck playing Sydney alternatively of qualies. What's going on?'.
"He's like, 'Oh, no, Lleyton was expected to archer you; I wasn't expected to archer you. I told him to archer you considering helium was the 1 who didn't privation you to person it'.
"So, I didn't extremity up uncovering retired until 11pm Thursday, due to the fact that I conjecture helium didn't person the balls to archer maine successful person."
Alex Bolt, Aleks Vukic, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Chris O'Connell are the 4 Australian men who received a main-draw wildcard, portion different went to erstwhile satellite No.1 Andy Murray.
The lone clip 174th-ranked Purcell has played successful the Australian Open singles main gully was successful 2020. He indispensable present combat his mode done the qualifying tourney successful bid to adhd to that quality adjacent week.
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