What's up, serve watchers?

This is Q&Andy.

And as promised this week, we're going to try to figure out a little bit more of what a tournament director does.

A friend of mine from a long, long time now, I think we met in 1994, if I'm not mistaken.

Peter Lebedevs, when I played in Memphis and a bunch of other places,

Peter was always someone that I really enjoyed dealing with.

Now is the tournament director at the Nexo Dallas Open.

How's the chaos meter getting ready for an event, Peter?

You know, the chaos meter here right now, Andy, is crazy. We've got three days before we go

showtime, and we build this entire stadium in 10 days on a football field. So we now have,

I think, it's six little tractors out there working. We have guys working 24-7,

two shifts, 7A and 7P. So it is about as crazy as it can be right now. Is it, is it a little bit

predictable? Do you like, you know this timeline after so many years or is there always just

something that's going to creep up and be stressful? Everything is always stressful. You know, look, Dallas, they said, come to Dallas, great weather. We've had snow and ice three out of five years of being here. So be very clear. You know, it's like, okay, the snow and ice is coming. Dallas isn't ready shut down. Can't get the paint delivered to do the courts.

That came yesterday. Other, you know, so there's always something. Bottom line is we need about

another, you know, 10 days on the front end to build it. But so, yes, there's always something going

on that's, that's just crazy. You know, like I said, the paint was one that we had, you know,

this year alone that they couldn't get it in.

Last year, the courts, because they're brand new courts, and they were stuck in Houston and fell off the side of the road on the ice that year.

So always something going on.

I'm just, my phone blows up.

I run out of battery after half the day.

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