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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".
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.
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 ...
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.
MLB umpire Ángel Hernández is retiring, and just about every team in the league will have some stories about him, like these for the Brewers. Seven times umpire Ángel Hernández and the ...
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