Here are some of the tidbits from the week:
* One of our officials defaulted a doubles team for slamming their rackets to the ground--three times!
* One of our officials (who will remain nameless but is from Oklahoma of course...) had six overrules in a singles match and culminated with a game penalty and loss of match.
* One of our officials (who will remain nameless but his middle name is Colint) agreed with the out call by a player and then let the other player talk him into overruling the call. Needless to say, when we had two irate coaches and two even more irate players we ruled "official interference" and replayed the point.
* One official when asked to overrule said, "That was an ace," instead of "Correction, the ball was good." At least they were creative in their overrule.
* One of our very experienced officials (and the one who gave the above mentioned default) also correctly gave a code violation for audible obscenity. During the match one of the players asked this chair official what he was doing wrong on his serve so the official told him to spin the ball in deeper to the opponent's body (which he then did and finally won his serve). Then in a moment of joyous exultation the player ran by the chair and gave the official a high five. At least you can't say he wasn't creative... I did caution him that coaching is not one of his official duties.
Other than these exciting moments we also had some of the best tennis we have ever had, some of the greatest food cooked by Tom Wright, and some of the best fellowship we have ever had with our officials family.
Today's matches feature the finals of all six singles flights and three doubles flights. The tournament is neck and neck between Vincennes University and Tyler Junior College.
More updates coming after today is complete...
8 comments:
Wow!! Has it been a year already since the SO's completed this event? That seems a long time ago....
And this was a hand picked, "cream of the crop", group of officials?
Who won the NJCAA tournament? We hear there was rain today.
It sounds like the Myronian made his quota for Code Violations.
And did Jesus make a return trip this year?
I am confused about you guys south of the Red River... you use none experienced officials for a National Championship. Sounds like a cheap donkey job to me....
We guys south of the Red River only use the most experienced officials for the last two days of the tournament. Most of the strange happenings took place before Thursday and Friday.
In our infinite wisdom though, we only used one official from north of the Red River--and he did a great job!
Wasn't the north of the Red river guy one of the 3 stooges? If it's the one from Tulsa, he is a good one.
He was and he is.
And I second that Randy...
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