Sandra de Jenken

Sandra de Jenken is a referee of Tennis French. She was born on December 29th 1976. She one of the most recognized the referees and is respected circuit, all confused sexes.

Biography

It started to arbitrate for 10F by match, for its club, in the south of the France and passed the contest of young referee in 1992. It was then line judge lasting of the tournaments with Nice or Monte Carlo. The arbitration becomes a true passion and she forsakes the idea then to become architect, like her father and her older sister. In 2000, it obtains a in management of the sport at the university of Nice, and in parallel specializes in the arbitration, passing levels 2 and 3 of the school of arbitration to Copenhagen and London (in 1997), then obtaining in 2001 the " Or" badge; , supreme distinction in this field. It belonged to the program " Trek" star; of training of international referees, and was committed full-time by the International federation of Tennis in 2002.

It first of all started by arbitrating matches on the circuit WTA, then became one of the rare women to arbitrate male matches, at the time of tournaments of the Grand Slam.

It is the first woman to arbitrate a final of Coupe Davis in 2005 at the time of the meeting gained by the Croatia vis-a-vis the Slovakia, by in particular arbitrating 3rd simple, the then decisive one, between Dominik Hrbatý and Ivan Ljubičić. The following year, with Wimbledon, it becomes the first referee female to arbitrate a semi-final Large-Slam in the match which opposes Roger Federer to Jonas Bjorkman. She also arbitrated the semi-final between Roger Federer and Nikolaï Davydenko with the US Open 2006.

With the Open of Australia 2007, it is the first woman to arbitrate the finale of the simple Sirs of a Grand Slam. She reiterates that at the time of the finale between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal with Roland-Garros 2007, becoming in fact the first to arbitrate the male final of simple on the beaten Ground Parisian. It was as about the first time as the same referee directed two finales of Grand Slam of at a stretch.

She arbitrated on the whole nine finales of Large-Slam in her career, in the four tournaments, the first in 2000 with Roland-Garros at the time of the meeting gained by the Frenchwoman Mary Pierce vis-a-vis Spanish the Conchita Martínez. She will say into 2007 that from now on the payment prevents it from arbitrating a finale putting at the catches one or one of its compatriots, but can arbitrate matches between two French all the same (be). She also arbitrated the finales of Fed Cup into 2003,2006 and 2007, as well as the finale of the female Master 2005 opponent the Frenchwomen Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce.

As a referee, it does not have the right to be expressed on the players in activity. It is however large a fan of Boris Becker and Yannick Noah, and the tournament which it appreciates particularly is Roland Garros, his Grand Slam " maison".

Polemics and Anecdotes

Like any referee, it must support a certain number of polemics.

It was the auteure of a overrule discussed at the time of the finale of the Open of Australia 2004 between the Belgians Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters. With *3/4 in the third set, Clijsters had to defend a ball of station-wagon. Its right blow in the beginning was considered good, but of Jenken overrula, thus giving a decisive station-wagon to Henin, which gained the match over its setting concerned following. The system Hawk-Eye showed that the ball touched the line very slightly. Sandra de Jenken justified her overrule by affirming that it " no doubt in connection with the décision" had absolutely; ( " I cuts absolutely No doubt butt the cal. Afterwards, the two people working down At courtside told me it was year excels call" ), also pointing the fact that the system Hawk-Eye has a margin of error and is not infallible (the impact was in the margin of error of the system). One reproached him for being let influence by Henin, but she answered that she had overrulé before Henin raises the finger to mark its dissension.

At the time of the finale of the Open of Australia 2002 between Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis, the American one was caught some verbally with it. For some reason, Sandra de Jenken preferred not to give him a warning, and Capriati ended up gaining the match.

With Wimbledon 2007, at the time a match point in favor of American the Serena Williams vis-a-vis Australian the Alicia Molik, a right blow of Molik was judged " out" , but none of the two players noticed the call, and they continued the exchange, finally gained by Serena Williams. Whereas the two players were going to tighten the hand with the net, Sandra de Jenken is descended from her chair to explain the situation to them and to inform Alica Molik which it could " challenger" the first call thanks to the Hawk-Eye. After checking, the right blow was well outside and the match was declared finished. It seems that Sandra de Jenken made the good choice by informing the Australian one of her rights, and if the two players saw no disadvantage there, the polemic was launched by Richard Williams, father and trainer of Serena Williams. He declared with the press that “the referee had exceeded the authority which is normally granted to him”, in “encouraging” Molik has challenger the call, and found that his/her daughter had been almost flouée. He then added that Sandra de Jenken should be “ Persona non grata ”.

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