COOPER
(Tennis Dog Expert)
In a men's ITA singles match, Player A hits the ball to Player B's baseline. Player B calls the ball out and the chair official immediately says, "Correction, the ball was good" before player A has a chance to voice an appeal.
How would you rule?
Cooper would also like to know how you would rule if Player A had time to appeal before the chair official overruled the call and did not register an appeal.
16 comments:
Tough cookies....a sorry my mistake to both players but player B still wins the point.
Oooops, meant player A wins the point.
Official interference, replay the point.
I know of one official, a TE level, but not a Texan who made a call like that and when the player being overruled and his and coach questioned, it was explained that the player would have appealed, so all was well!
I honestly have no idea. Might it be official hindrance? Replay the point?
I see it the same as calling a service let in a D1 men's match.
Tell the players the chair official is always right. Eject the coach when he comes out to ask question. Default match when coach trys to ask a second question.
first scenario player b wins the point. the chair goofed seepg 243 1B1.second scenario player a wins the point pg 244 no. 18
What happened...
The chair official was a new official and when he overruled without a chance for the player to appeal, he told the coach that he "screwed up" and the overrule stood.
Interesting to say the least...
So, what's a "new official" doing chairing an ITA match?
To hopefully clarify for our newer officials, this situation was covered in the ITA 2011 school scenarios. The correct response by an official in this instance is "official interference, replay the point".
How else is a new official going to learn if we don't put them up in a chair and let them loose?
You could always send them to that new fangled school being taught by Susan Wertenberger and Seande Pulley and let them work 12 hours for free. Then, following their graduation, you could teach them the proper techniques so they will become good seasoned officials, provided of course that they don't run off and hide first.
OK.
What if the player did acutally not hear the chair umpire correct the out call of the opponent,
but was coming to the chair to question the call? The umpires says yes the ball was on the line, but replay the point?
Why are the chair umpires goofs regarded as reasons to invalidate a clearly incorrect call?
Is it that the annointed umpires live in the "cloisted culture of officials who live on the crumbs of the big USTA cheese droppings"
and in their self esteem delusion regard their negligence as reasons for
a do over.
Is the masculine desire of competition of tennis bigger
than the feminine ego needs of officials wannabes??
Seasoned officials know how to get out of this one...
On a side note, someone needs to teach the new officials how to deal with officials calling long lines. Heard there was a little hickup at a recent ITA match at UTA.
There are hickups ALL the time - if you think that you will not make one - YOU are out of your mind! I saw a TWO SEASONED officials at a VERY BIG match BLOW a call - IT HAPPENS! MOVE ON - AND STOP trying to throw people under the UMPbus! Speaking of that RM blog arthor dude, you should pole people and see if they would prefer far side umps or not on matches - some places do it others don't. I cannot see why not? On the other hand - when I get to work matches that do not use them - I love my time off.
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