By David Polkinghorne
Tennis ACT boss Ross Triffitt hopes he can lure an elusive Davis Cup tie before he puts down the racquet after almost eight years in charge.
Triffitt announced his resignation at the Tennis ACT annual general meeting on Wednesday night and the longest serving of the current chief executives in Australian tennis will move on in February.
Tennis ACT boss Ross Triffitt will step down in February.Credit: Rohan Thomson
He was hopeful they would have his replacement in place before the Australian Open, which also serves as a meeting place for the powerbrokers in Aussie tennis.
Australia hosts their first-round Davis Cup tie against the Czech Republic in February and Tennis ACT has submitted a bid to bring a Nick Kyrgios-led team to Canberra.
Having the world No.13 represent his country at the redeveloped Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham would be the perfect way to go out.
Triffitt will have a short break before taking up his next role in property development.
"That'd be the fairytale [to get the Davis Cup], but who knows. It's still going through a process so we'll have to see what happens," Triffitt said on Thursday.
"We haven't been advised that we've been unsuccessful and Tennis Australia is still running the process, maybe til as late as the end of November, so we'll just wait and see what feedback comes back then."
It's the redeveloped tennis centre that Triffitt sees as his legacy.
The $27 million revamp opened the door for not only Davis Cup fixtures, but elite tournaments to be held in the nation's capital.
Tennis ACT's Canberra International finished on Sunday and has been nominated for a Tennis Australia award on Newcombe Medal night for "most outstanding professional tournament".
Tennis ACT will also host a $75,000 men's challenger in the lead-up to the Australian Open in January and then the ACT Clay Court International in March.
"The organisation's in a great place so it's a good time to hand over to someone else," Triffitt said.
"Obviously the venue [is my legacy]. There's been a lot of change in the organisation redeveloping the venue."