Local Alice Springs line umpire, Leanne Usher has been rewarded for her dedication to the sport of tennis and her commitment to officiating by receiving a lucrative position in the 19 person line officials’ squad for the Fed Cup tie in April.<\/p>\n
The Fed Cup by BNP Paribas semi-final tie will feature Australia against Germany<\/em><\/strong><\/span> in Brisbane on Pat Rafter Arena 19 and 20 April 2014.<\/p>\n “Being selected for such a high calibre event is a huge achievement, especially with such a small squad being selected. The standard of applications was extremely high.”<\/em> said Cheryl Jenkins, the Chief of Officials for the tie. “No doubt this tops off the fantastic ‘summer of tennis’ she had officiating.”<\/em><\/p>\n This won’t be Usher’s first experience in a big match situation after calling lines for Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer on the same court during the Brisbane International<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, as well as on the World stage at Grand Slam level calling lines on Rod Laver Arena during the Australian Open<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> for the likes of Li Na, Victoria Azarenka and Rafa Nadal.<\/p>\n “I applied thinking it would be a great opportunity to be involved in the Fed Cup”<\/em> said Usher “However, it came as a complete shock once I found out I was selected. It was another official who gave me the good news, sending me a ‘congratulations’ text message as I hadn’t checked my emails for a few days.”<\/em><\/p>\n Usher will make the journey from the Red Centre to the Queensland coast a few days before the tie to meet \u00a0and bond with her fellow line umpires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Local Alice Springs line umpire, Leanne Usher has been rewarded for her dedication to the sport of tennis and her commitment to officiating by receiving a lucrative position in the 19 person line officials’ squad for the Fed Cup tie in April. The Fed Cup by BNP Paribas semi-final tie will feature Australia against Germany […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":5263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,175,130,127,176,10],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alice-springs-tennis-association","tag-fed-cup","tag-line-umpires","tag-officials","tag-red-centre","tag-tennis-alice-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}