Holly Wainwright

I kept hearing about Roland.

I was like, who's Roland?

Exactly.

Who is Roland?

There'll be an answer to that, won't there?

And this week, there was a bit of a ding-dong at the French Open over some umpires being...

Oh, oh my God.

I know.

I'm shocked.

Now, to be clear, the umpires who get to adjudicate over the big Grand Slam titles, so French Open, US Open, Wimbledon, Aussie Open, etc., are called the gold badge ones.

So they are the top of their field, just like in any other sport.

You don't just pull the volunteer referee from Saturday football and put them on the grand final.

So these are the big guns.

But in a game that was played by Paraguayan Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, he criticized his female umpire and said that this level of game should only be umpired by a man.

His game was five hours long, which is like, that's really, really long.

Oh my gosh.

And it was hot.

And the crowd got rowdy.

And we have talked a little bit lately, if we've talked about tennis at all, about how the polite, like just sitting around and doing little finger claps at tennis is over.

Everybody yells now.