Court Etiquette

Court Intrusion.
I appreciate that it might be frustrating when someone walks through a court that you are playing on but there is no reason to be rude and aggressive. I have had a complaint! Please restrain yourself and ask kindly and politely, "Would you mind waiting till we finish our point please" For those of you wanting to walk through, please wait for a break in play and ask if you can go through.

Safely returning balls to serving side

There have been many times when I have been on court on the serving side of the net when our opposition have decided to return balls. So kind! However, sometimes this occurs safely but there have been too many times when the returned balls have wizzed past my head or hit me in the back. I really don't want to have any more eye injuries and I am sure you wouldn't either. I suggest you do the following, that is to collect the ball like a ball boy/girl and hold the ball up so that it can be seen by the server, just like a ball boy/girl. The server can then indicate if they want the ball or not. Thus avoiding any surprises and injuries. After all you don't see ball boy/girls just lobbing the balls at Federer when he isn't looking. Amusing as that might be.

Many thanks,

Col