The Lawn Tennis Association has appointed Peter Keen as its new interim performance director.
Keen replaces Bob Brett, who resigned from his permanent role after just one year in July.
Keen is a former performance director at British Cycling and UK Sport, and has attended five Olympic Games as a Great Britain team official.
LTA chief executive Michael Downey said: " The search for a performance director has been very encouraging to date with many impressive candidates identified.
"However, in order to deliver the widest possible candidate list, we realise we need to wait until after the summer Olympics in Rio. Therefore, we have decided to put an interim leadership solution in place given the importance of advancing Great Britain's high performance agenda."
Keen will be seconded from his role as director of sports advancement and strategy at Loughborough University.
He said, "I am hugely excited by the opportunity to take on this interim role.
"In the short time I have spent with the leadership and performance teams at the LTA, I have been impressed by their collective desire to move forward, think out of the box, and above all their aspiration to build a world-leading high performance programme that delivers at all levels of participation."
Source: PA
