"I'm on duty this morning and just wanted to be sure there weren't any cell phones flying through the air."
UPDATE ON THE CELL PHONE CHUNKING TOURNAMENT PLAYER
The Dallas Tennis Association's Grievance Committee met this week and formally suspended the tournament player who threw the official's cell phone "a considerable distance." You can read all about it in a previous post on August 30, 2013. After hearing of the incident we checked with numerous witnesses and confirmed that the official's account of the incident was accurate and true. There were more salacious details offered by those who were there but suffice it to say, the issue has been handled.
Our congratulations to them for doing the right thing and suspending him from any and all activities of the DTA for a year. Your decision is much-appreciated by officials everywhere.
Our congratulations to them for doing the right thing and suspending him from any and all activities of the DTA for a year. Your decision is much-appreciated by officials everywhere.
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Now the Texas Section needs to suspend the player from all USTA sanctioned events and all will be well.
The attention and focus now turns to the Texas Section Grievance Committee to see what they do. Hopefully it will be a suspension of a minimum of a year and maybe more. This guy has no business playing in any tournament anywhere.
What about the reimbursement for the official's phone?
Unfortunately when the offending player offered $450 for the broken phone the official didn't take it.
Now maybe he wishes he had...
The USTA Texas Section now needs to act. Being suspended by DTA was the right thing to do, but there are too many events in the Dallas-Ft Worth area that are not DTA sponsored events. USTA Texas Section needs to take a stand, not just talk about a problem with no action. All the officials and players at USTA events will be watching to see if USTA really wants to stop disruptive behavior or if they just want to talk about it and point their collective finger at other people.
In a few months, I'll write in asking if the USTA actually did anything, because I'm pretty sure they won't. Why would USTA take any real action when they can just talk? Maybe this situation will just go away or be forgotten. That appears to be the USTA plan.
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