WOMEN OFFICIALS NEEDED....

FOOT FAULT

Do you know the RULES OF TENNIS

Can you handle a player's anger

Are you a Wonder Woman (Strong)


LOVE TENNIS?  Perhaps you might give some thought to becoming a tennis official. No you do not have to act or look like Wonder Woman to be a good tennis official.  Listed below are a few of the qualities of a good tennis official:  Did I mention that this is a paid profession?

• Knows the rules of tennis
• Handles stressful situations well
• Cool under pressure
• Confident
• Can respond calmly to someone yelling at you
• GREAT at multi-tasking
• Able to make unbiased calls that might go against friends or teammates
• Want to be up close to some of the BEST TENNIS IN TOWN
• You consider yourself to be a FAIR person
• Accepts that mistakes are inevitable and learns from them
• Can call foot faults 
• Overrules obvious line call errors

If you've ever considered becoming a USTA certified official, please email me at Vickietennisnut@austin.rr.com;  WE NEED MORE WOMEN!!  Men are welcome too and men are easier to recruit. Not sure if it's because the uniform doesn't appeal to females or if it's more of a testosterone thing.  Either way, if you think you can handle the pressure and are interested, we'd love to have you join us. 

It's a fairly simple process to become certified.  Certification class is one day (Saturday generally) in January or February of each year.  Our Austin class is scheduled for Feb. 4th, 2012 and is held at USTA Texas conference room.  You take an online certification test (open book) and bring the test answers with you to the February class.  If  you'd like more information, please email me or Mike Flynn, our school's coordinator.  Mike's email address is mikeflynn4@gmail.com;