27-07 2021 15:02
wrote:
I was very saddened to hear the news of Maureen’s passing. I remember my first meeting with Maureen at a teachers’ course in Buckinghamshire in 1988. We talked about tennis for some considerable time, and I mentioned that I had always wondered what it was like to call a line at Wimbledon; Maureen replied by saying that she would get me on a training course within a few weeks, which she did, and we became close friends. I was appointed to be a line umpire at Wimbledon in 1989 and I was in a team with some really nice people, one of whom was to become my future wife. I will always be grateful to Maureen for introducing me to tennis officiating, supporting me as a teacher and for bringing Kath into my life.
27-07 2021 15:02
wrote:
I was very saddened to hear the news of Maureen’s passing. I remember my first meeting with Maureen at a teachers’ course in Buckinghamshire in 1988. We talked about tennis for some considerable time, and I mentioned that I had always wondered what it was like to call a line at Wimbledon; Maureen replied by saying that she would get me on a training course within a few weeks, which she did, and we became close friends. I was appointed to be a line umpire at Wimbledon in 1989 and I was in a team with some really nice people, one of whom was to become my future wife. I will always be grateful to Maureen for introducing me to tennis officiating, supporting me as a teacher and for bringing Kath into my life.
