AMTO E-NEWS
MAY 2009
A chair school is still planned to
be conducted by our Section TE June 12 - 14 during the
We expect to
convene a tennis officials seminar during the 1st week
of June. Stand by for an rsvp notice if we're
successful. The event should be a classroom setting where
attendees will be given ample opportunity to ask rules questions and offer
scenarios for response by a veteran official and / or a Section TE.
If you need shadowing or work
assignments to support a rating for 2010, be sure watch for
"calls" for availability of officials. If the event can support
shadowing, there will be a notice in the call.
PVs:
Shadowing evaluation forms can facilitate your upgrade to SE during the
1st year. Find it in the forwarding April email or contact your Area
Rep or myself.
A history project has started. One
of our senior officials with long experience with officiating conceded to edit
or prepare a history of MD officiating and of AMTO. Nancy Hockett's
stories and vignettes of the "olden" days are always entertaining
and often enlightening about why things are the way they are. She
has been in this business since tennis rackets were wooden and
tennis balls were white. We'll all be waiting to read about our
tennis association's origins.
Scenario
puzzle for self-education: You're a Roving Umpire on-court at your proper
station at the net post. The Tournament Director insisted that
score-minders be draped over the nets near the net post - no
frame was available - to provide a convenience to the spectators. During
a doubles match, Player A hits a return toward opponent Player B, and the
ball strikes the score-minder falling onto Player B's
court unreturnable. Should you make a call? And, if so,
what do you say?