All England Club rules out LTA funding probe 22/04/2010 |
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The All England Club has said it will not seek clarification on how the money it donates to the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is spent.
The LTA receives more than £25m from the proceeds of the Wimbledon Championships each year, but the governing body has come in for criticism recently over the state of British tennis after a series of disappointing Davis Cup performances.
However, Tim Phillips, chairman of the All England Club, insists it is not his place to ask the LTA what it is doing with the money.
"We very much work on the basis that our small team concentrates on making Wimbledon globally competitive," he said.
"We have a group of 12 volunteers on the committee who have the time and inclination to do what they can to help Wimbledon. We also have a small executive team who are high-quality people.
"Frankly we are stretched to do all we do here. There's a lot of work involved and it's not effortless.
"It's not helpful for us to be second guessing or exerting control over the LTA when we are not familiar with all the issues or difficulties.
"We've got our agenda here and we concentrate on that. We have the joint finance committee but the purpose of that is not for us to try to put pressure on the LTA.
"We don't have all the information and we need to concentrate on what we're doing here.
"The LTA have the mandate to run tennis. We don't. We have a mandate to run Wimbledon and that's what we do."
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