NRL<\/a> was widely reported on Monday, but the new leadership structure at one of most influential organisations in world tennis remains unclear.<\/p>\nAbdo replaced Todd Greenberg as NRL chief executive in 2020 having spent much of the preceding decade in a commercial role at the organisation.<\/p>\n
Alongside influential Australian Rugby League Commission chair Peter V\u2019landys, Abdo has consolidated rugby league\u2019s financial health and expanded the competition\u2019s footprint into Papua New Guinea and Western Australia.<\/p>\n
He is set to leave just as negotiations intensify over the next NRL broadcast and player pay deals.<\/p>\n
Craig Tiley, chief executive at Tennis Australia, announced earlier this year he would be taking on the same role with the US Tennis Association.<\/p>\n
International executive recruitment firm Egon Zehnder has been responsible for finding Tiley\u2019s replacement since his departure was announced in February.<\/p>\n
The plan at that stage was for Tiley to stay for \u201cthe coming months\u201d to support a smooth transition.<\/p>\n
Speculation around contenders to replace him included Tom Larner, the current chief tennis officer, chief of events Stephen Farrow, as well as Tennis Queensland chief executive, Cameron Pearson.<\/p>\n
Tiley\u2019s departure, after more than two decades with Tennis Australia, represents a significant shift in the country\u2019s sporting landscape. His tenure has not been perfect \u2013 his inability to prevent Novak Djokovic\u2019s deportation was a blow to the executive who portrays himself as player-friendly \u2013 but under his guidance the Australian Open has transitioned from a tennis event to a broader cultural phenomenon, attracting spectators interested in eating, drinking, fashion and music.<\/p>\n
Fuelled by the Australian Open, Tennis Australia revenues are now around $700m per year, behind only the AFL and NRL among Australian sporting organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Rugby League chief executive Andrew Abdo is set to make one of the great leaps across Australia\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-692533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}