BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Tennis Australia will appeal an International Tennis Federation decision to allow its next Davis Cup match to be played in the southern Indian city of Chennai, despite ongoing security concerns by the Australians and the possibility they could be without former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt.

"We will be lodging an official appeal on Monday," Tennis Australia spokesman Darren Pearce told The Associated Press on Sunday. "It will be under the same grounds - our concerns for the security of our team."

The third-round Australia-India match in Asia-Oceania Group 1 is scheduled to take place in Chennai on May 8-10. The winner will advance to the World Group playoffs in September.

In a statement released on the Davis Cup Web site Friday, the ITF said Chennai was approved by the Davis Cup Committee following "a positive report from the ITF’s security consultants."

Australian tennis officials had sought a change of venue amid heightened concerns about security for sports events on the Indian subcontinent, following a terror attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan last month.

Following the Lahore attacks, and with extra security needed for India’s general elections, a decision was made to move the IPL Twenty20 cricket tournament to South Africa.

Hewitt’s manager David Drysdale said Sunday that Australia’s most successful Davis Cup singles player was in Europe, awaiting the outcome of Tennis Australia’s appeal before making his next move.

"We talked about it yesterday and we’re waiting to see what TA’s result is, but I don’t think he (Hewitt) is ready to make any comments," Drysdale told Australian Associated Press.

"We should hear something in the next 48 hours and I think, like all players, he’ll make a decision then - if a decision needs to be made."

In late March, Tennis Australia asked for the match to be moved.

"We have received advice from a variety of sources referring to traveling to India," Tennis Australia chief executive Steve Wood said in a statement then. "It is on that basis of security concerns that we have asked for the tie to be moved out of India.

The All India Tennis Association said in a statement at the same time that it was confident of the match being held in Chennai.

"There’s no need to shift it," the statement said. "The International Tennis Federation wrote to us about Australia’s security concerns and we’ve sent a reply."