Australia offer Davis Cup olive branch to Tomic


  • Tennis
  • Tuesday, 21 Jul 2015

Bernard Tomic of Australia hits a shot during his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2015. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian tennis officials want to clear the air with Bernard Tomic and reinstate the country's estranged number one into the Davis Cup team for the semi-final against Britain.

The controversial world number 29 was booted off the team before the quarter-final win over Kazakhstan on Sunday for publicly criticising Tennis Australia (TA) officials in an extraordinary tirade at Wimbledon.

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