Veteran campaigner for Sri Lanka, Rohan de Silva said on Tuesday (3) that he would pull out of the 16-player pool named by the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) in its preparation for next March’s Davis Cup, to be played against New Zealand in an Asia-Oceania Zone Group-II tie in Colombo.

It was reported last week that de Silva has also been short-listed as one of the members of the new national tennis selection committee proposed by the SLTA and sent for the Sports and Public Recreation Ministry approval.

"I will be available only as a selector (of the national tennis selection committee) if the SLTA requests me to do so," said De Silva, who has represented Sri Lanka in Davis Cup until 2006 in a career spanning over a decade.

Sri Lanka emerged second out of eight participating countries in Asia-Oceania Zone Group-III last April in Syria to qualify for Group-II in Davis Cup after ten years.