Michaela Moon runs a Tight Ship

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Michaela Moon is the chief of umpires at the St. Vincent Auxiliary Men's Professional Tennis Tournament. Her job is find umpires and officials for this Futures tournament.

She starts by trying to find officials right here in Little Rock. Some officials may have worked high school, state or college tournaments and could get their first opportunity to work a professional level tournament here.

Because of the great number of matches, she has pulled officials from Texas, Delaware, Missouri, Illinois and Georgia.

Some officials have a career outside of tennis and this is a side gig. Some officials have retired from their original careers and fell into tennis as a leisurely career.

Michaela Moon herself has a career outside of tennis and does her tennis assignment while on vacation from her main job.