31.   The first point of the seventh game consisted of a penalty from the chair umpire Wayne McKewen.

32.   The move provoked a crescendo of hissing from the crowd as she flubbed the serve and ran like a chastened child to the chair umpire.

33.   The only hand Blanco was prepared to shake was the hand of the chair umpire, Mohamed Lahyani.

34.   The serve was called out by the line judge, but the call was overruled by the chair umpire.

35.   There is no chair umpire, nobody with a whistle, no one with any sort of authoritative presence.

36.   Unfortunately for Courier, chair umpire Cecil Hollins has called plenty of matches in South America, and he knew what it meant.

37.   Unlike tennis, where perfectionism often led McEnroe to emotional tirades directed at linesmen and chair umpires, he can lighten up on stage.

38.   When Navratilova won the first eight points, it looked like the chair umpire might lean down and asked Gigi if she would like a blindfold and a cigaret.

39.   When the chair umpire asked late-arrivers to find a seat, Sampras lobbed a tennis ball at the offending fan.

40.   Rebeuh is not among the eight full-time chair umpires employed by the ATP Tour.