Now that the ITA tennis season is drawing to a close we thought this would be a great incident for you to discuss and dissect...
SCENARIO
In a contentious ITA match it came down to the final and deciding match. Player A wins the match and throws the racket over the net striking the opponent before shaking hands.
What do you do????
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If it's like most chair umpires, claim they never saw the infraction and leave the court.
The real answer is nothing. The match is over!
This happened during a match I was working over the weekend. Match was the final and deciding match for their respective D2 conference title. After the final point, winning player threw his racket and begin to celebrate. Racket traveled across the court hitting his opponent in the leg.
I conferred with the other officials, and we ended up advising both coaches we were documenting the situation, and communicating it to their conference commissioner. Sent the email yesterday.
call the local PD and let them hash it out.
Seriously though what would what was the decision?
Call the police.
OR - make sure that the Athletic Director(s) of both schools have a full report in their office ASAP!
BACO don't PLAY with Physical!
Sincerely,
BACO
Keep my head down completing my scorecard so I can legitimately claim "I didn't see it"
Is the match "over" prior to hands being shaken? Potential default of ther racket tosser based on racket striking opponenet prior to the handshake? Thus resulting on "loser" winning? Then again, it was D2.......
"I see noThing, I hear noThing."
Sargent Schultz
(if you are too young to know this one, Google "Hogan's Heroes")
Whether they shook hands or not doesn't matter. You can have codes after shaking hands and the rules do not even require shaking of hands. It was decider- the match is over. I would send a report to ADs of both schools and the conference. The racquet was apparently thrown in jubilation. Look at it the other way- if racquet was thrown by loser in disgust of anger, no code, but report would be also appropriate.
So what's the right course of action? What call should have been made?
I don't know what happened, but I do know when same team won at the next level, no racquets were thrown, tossed or flung in the air. Point was made and apparently received. Don't do things that could be hazardous to others.
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