Larry Scott
Larry Scott
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Nothing is more important to us than issues involving the health and safety of our players.
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In an ideal world, there would be a two-and-a-half- to three-month off-season. I don't think our players like to sit out that long without playing. If we can add a few more weeks, what our medical people are telling us is that players can rest, rehabilitate and build back up and work on preventive things during the season.
I'm not anti-Mexican, I'm an American and I want to see things done properly.
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The addition of a touch of fashion adds that extra element of entertainment to the most important event on the WTA Tour calendar,
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It's very hard to say how long it will take for the French to pay all the women equally. Now that we've crossed the intellectual hurdle, I hope the next steps go much faster.
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We felt that we had to pursue every means possible to utilize technology to make sure that calls were accurate without losing the human element of officials on court.
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We're very pleased and it's a great day for professional tennis and tennis in the desert. I also want to go on and say the greatest days of the tournament are ahead of it.
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We all have seen matches turn on questionable calls. With all that's on the line in tennis these days, we felt we had to pursue every means possible to utilize technology to make sure that calls were accurate.
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Don't worry about them going downtown and dealing with highways. Focus on just getting them up and down the street. Take little steps.
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We do not see a pattern; it's not like there's one injury befalling tennis players like, say, ankle injuries, ... to continue to improve the schedule to allow for appropriate rest.
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We've been testing the systems and they have been better than 90 percent accurate, which is better than the human average. We haven't set a hard deadline, but next summer is realistic. We want to make sure it is completely reliable.
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There have been quite a few notable matches over the past couple of years where the line calls were questionable and in fact proved to be wrong. So much is on the line. The opportunity to know the right call is impossible to resist.
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There's no limit to how many times a player can ask a chair umpire to check out a mark but it doesn't mean the chair umpire is obliged to get out of the chair.
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The tragedy to so many human lives caused by Hurricane Katrina has touched all of us.