Hi all. Welcome to the inaugural Crisis Center of 2009, as the first Grand Slam of the year finally gets under way. It starts at 7 p.m. EST, which is 11 a.m. local time, and midnight where I'm sitting here in the UK. Like many other devoted tennis watchers, I plan to catch as much action as possible, so in preparation I caught some sleep during the evening before the start of play. I expect to be in daylight mode by the time the evening session rolls around.
As most of you know, Crisis Centers are designed primarily for the discussion of ongoing matches, including match-calling. The concept is very similar to that of our daily Your Call posts which appear for tournaments outside of the big ones. The key difference is that we expect higher site traffic, especially during Grand Slams, so will need to be more emphatic than usual in asking the TWibe to exclude off-topic conversations until the day's play is over. As posts fill up, we will put up extension Crisis Centers.
