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Bernard Tomic and Pat Rafter of Australia at a Davis Cup tie against Germany in 2012.Credit:Getty Images

"One of the things I said publicly was that he was pretty disgraceful out there,"Rafter said,recalling the aftermath of a US Open match Tomic played against Andy Roddick in 2012 where he appeared to tank in the third set.

"Maybe I shouldn't have said that. Maybe it should have been said between him and me."

Rafter,who said he was brought in to make cultural changes by TA,thought things would play out a bit differently when he first started dealing with Tomic as an 18 year-old.

"... I thought at the time I could make some change but I found out pretty quickly I couldn't impact that,"Rafter said.

"We see life a bit differently. So we are going to have disagreements and I was pretty vocal in that and he was pretty hurt by it."

After a four-year stint as Davis Cup captain Rafter moved on to head of performance at TA,quitting that post earlier this year. He conceded he had a lot of difficulty dealing with the younger players.

"I realised I had no impact with these guys whatsoever. They couldn't relate to me and I couldn't relate to them,"he said.

All up it made for a difficult experience.

"It wasn't enjoyable,"he said of the Davis Cup captaincy."I reckon I had one or two enjoyable ties out of the four years I did it for. It was just hard work and banging my head against the wall all the time."

Rafter said he held no ill-will towards Tomic but admitted that he hadn't spoken to the former world No.17 for a year.

AAP