By Guy Hand
October 27th 2009 @ 2:29am
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Pollard wins presidency vote over McNamee
Long-serving Tennis Australia (TA) president Geoff Pollard will remain in charge of the sport for the next 12 months after seeing off the challenge of Paul McNamee.
Pollard defeated ex-Australian Open boss McNamee in a secret ballot by TA delegates in Melbourne on Monday.
While TA won’t release voting figures, it is understood the result was close [...]
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