One of the most abused creatures in the sports world is the chair official in a tennis match--sometimes rightfully so and sometimes wrongly...
Recently I was standing with two Division I coaches on a court adjoining the deciding match in their dual. We were all three looking directly down the baseline of the match that was still in progress. Player A called the ball out on his baseline. The coach of Player A immediately said, "great call!" and the coach of Player B begin to rant and rave and say, "Worst call in history."
Just goes to show that two very qualified people can see the same thing and come up with two completely different conclusions. Maybe its a good thing that the only opinion that matters is that of the chair official...
(Please note that I did not tell you how I saw the ball. I don't want to risk offending one of the coaches...)
5 comments:
Oh, come on, RM, tell us how you really feel! No one knows who coach A and coach B are, anyway!
And did the opponent appeal the call? Did the chair make a ruling? If so, what was the chair's ruling?
The ball was good and the chair upheld the outcall. When questioned about it later, the chair said, "I don't know why I didn't overrule it. It was obviously in."
Must have been one of those moments that we all have in the chair...
Post a Comment