Ben Shelton reached the semifinals at the 2025 Australian Open, showing the whole world all his progress with a series of ...

Taking charge of tennis matches at Grand Slam tournaments such as Wimbledon and the French Open. As chair umpire, I am accountable for everything on court, from player behaviour to line calls ...

Grand Slam tournaments allow 20 seconds between points, but chair umpires are allowed some flexibility and often show discretion after long points or in hot conditions. The umpires seem to be ...

NEW YORK—For some in tennis, the serve clock was long awaited ... All of that is controlled by a human—i.e., the chair umpire. This was true before the advent of the clock, of course.

It’s a privilege that world tennis comes to Melbourne once a year, that it’s in our backyard with the whole world’s attention on us. It was a goal to be a chair umpire on centre court at ...

If you aren’t an avid tennis fan, you could almost be forgiven for assuming umpires have it easy. Almost. However, there’s so much more to umpiring than sitting in a very tall chair and ...

A group of people are yelling the word "out" as an instructor drops a tennis ball next to a painted ... to calling the score from the tall umpire's chair. Major tournaments like Wimbledon are ...