• Nomination ‘undermines’ improvements says abuse victim• LTA president stepped down admitting safeguarding failingsSports confronted by nightmare revelations of sexual abuse have dramatically improved their safeguarding cultures, but a whiff of the bad old days has sullied the latest response to historic abuse in tennis.
Martin Corrie, president of the Lawn
Tennis Association, resigned last month following an investigation into his failures to properly handle a complaint made 15 years ago by a woman who as a young player suffered abuse by her male coach in the 1990s. The LTA announced in a statement that disciplinary proceedings against Corrie had been discontinued, as he had stepped down, acknowledged he had been at fault and issued an apology. But at the same time the LTA voted in favour of Corrie for prestigious re‑election to the board of the International Tennis Federation.