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List of active gold-badge female tennis umpires Name Nation Year Notes Alison Hughes (née Lang): Great Britain: 2003 ITF umpire; referee since 1989. Officiated the women's singles final at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, as well as the women's singles final at the 5 Grand Slam tournaments, including the 2016 US Open women's singles Final, the 2017 Australian Open women's singles final, the ...
Kader Nouni (born 23 February 1976) is a French tennis umpire. He works primarily for the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and has officiated six major finals. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) certified him as a gold badge umpire in 2007. Known for his baritone voice, Nouni is sometimes called the "Barry White of tennis".
Ali Nili (Persian: علی نیلی, born 26 May 1978) is an Iranian-American tennis official who has a gold badge chair umpire certified by the International Tennis Federation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2008, he became the first Asian tennis chair umpire to attain the esteemed Gold Badge chair umpire certification (one of 26 in the world), certified ...
A line umpire stands at a ready position, focusing on his assigned line. The line umpire (or line judge) "calls all shots relating to the assigned lines." [6] Line umpires work on court as part of a team of between one and nine line umpires. Each line umpire is assigned to one line or, in the case of a short-handed crew, a position in a system.
Carlos Ramos (born 1972) [1] is a Portuguese tennis umpire. [2] Ramos, a gold badge chair umpire certified by the International Tennis Federation, [3] is one of only two persons to have chair umpired a singles finals match in all four of the Grand Slam tournaments, the other being Alison Hughes. [2]
American tennis star Frances Tiafoe let loose at the chair umpire on Tuesday after a controversial call during his loss at the ATP Shanghai Masters.
This one's for the birds: A pigeon landed on the court during a French Open match Saturday, leading the chair umpire to use a towel to rescue the fallen fowl. The pigeon dropped to the red clay at ...
In 2003, she received the International Tennis Federation Gold Badge status, the highest honor for a tennis umpire. [3] In 2011, Lang was named the Lawn Tennis Association's Official of the Year. [2] [4] [5] In 2003, Lang umpired at the Wimbledon Championships for the first time. [3] She was an umpire at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.