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\nYou’ll need to find a way to support yourself as there are few paid positions, but for Bernadette Halton, it’s not about the money, it’s giving back to tennisSometimes you can come off court and someone will ask what the score was and you’ll have no idea. I’ll be in the zone, concentrating on my line, and then suddenly it’s match point and you think ‘Oh, what just happened?'” says Bernadette Halton, one of the umpires at Wimbledon.The long-standing umpire of both line and chair doesn’t know a time where she hasn’t taken several weeks off a year to “give back to tennis”. Since the age of 12, Halton, 55, who now lives in Redditch, circuited the north London tennis club tournaments as a member of the Coolhurst Club, where umpiring each other’s games was encouraged. “We used to have competitions on who could umpire the most matches. I’m very competitive and thought I’m going to win this.” Continue reading…
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