USTA backpedals over Open umpire blunder but won’t fire him
That beeping sound you hear is the USTA trying to back up over its most recent high-profile US Open controversy. The organization released a statement Friday morning saying chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani “went beyond protocol” when he stepped down from his perch to give Aussie firebrand Nick Kyrgios a pep talk during his second-round match...