American tennis star Frances Tiafoe fell to 27-year-old Russian Roman Safiullin the third round of the Shanghai Masters 1000 ...
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 ...
Daniil Medvedev received a code violation and then was handed a point penalty for abusing the chair umpire during the R32 ...
It is completely not me to do something like that. I apologized very quickly and I want to apologize in general. I’m not ...
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.