Australian tennis legend Pat Cash is laying down the gauntlet to new Tennis Australia boss Andrew Abdo, urging him to fix grass-roots participation or “tennis in Aus is gonna die”.

Leading NRL club bosses have backed Andrew Abdo to deliver the code one last, lucrative gift before signing off on the “longest and strongest legacy” of the NRL era.

Departing NRL CEO Andrew Abdo believes the code is only getting started in terms of what it can achieve after the foundations put in place during his six-year tenure, working in tandem with ARLC Chair Peter V’landys.

Andrew Abdo is making a shock code switch after spending six highly successful years at the helm of Aussie rugby league.