Cicero, N.Y. — Being a chair umpire in tennis is far from easy. Umpires have to make precise calls while dealing with a variety of different factors.

However, the chair umpire issued a yellow card to Gilmour for “delaying play” as she failed to return within the allotted two-minute time limit. The Badminton World Federation (BWF), the governing ...

A Scots badminton star who was handed a yellow card ... Three-time Olympian asked the umpire for a break to visit the bathroom after winning the second set. But after running over an allocated ...

A line judge had called one of his opponent Iliyan Radulov's shots out but official Ali Katebi came down to check the mark of the ball in the clay and overturned the decisionread full article ...

Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta was involved in a heated exchange with the chair umpire during the Girona Challenger. The 33-year-old faced Belarus’ Iliyan Radulov in the round of 16, where he came out on ...

Controversy erupted at a Challenger event in Girona when Pablo Carreno Busta pushed chair umpire Ali Katebi during a second-round clash against Iliyan Radulov. The argument stemmed from an out ...

A badminton player who overran a bathroom break ... players are not allowed to leave the court without the umpire's permission. They are permitted a two minute pause between the first and second ...

Kirsty Gilmour was given a yellow card during the All England Open in Birmingham match after leaving the court to deal with her period A badminton ... court without the umpire's permission.

However, after checking the mark, chair umpire Ali Katebi ruled the ball in. This reversal of the call infuriated Carreno Busta, who proceeded to shove the chair umpire before engaging in a lengthy ...

“The laws of badminton do in fact allow players to leave the field of play for a toilet break at the two-minute interval between games. “Unfortunately, the umpire did not immediately allow Kirsty ...