The Final Grand Slam
Single Delegate Crisis Committee
tennis@uclamun.org
Committee Summary
Topic: The Great Tennis Council (2026)
Committee summary: The year is 2026. The top players, coaches, heads of media, sponsors, and hall of farmers are beginning the ATP tennis season at the French Open when it gets leaked that the ATP is on the verge of bankruptcy. The only choice to save the decades-old league is to plan an additional grand slam tournament, to be dubbed as the fifth grand slam. An emergency council is called to attempt to plan this fifth tournament at the French Open. However, they are racing the clock as rival tennis leagues threaten to take over the ATP and poach top players. The women's equivalent, the WTA, is threatening to pull out of joint slams to preserve their league. The media is hungry to expose player and planning scandals. Over the course of LAMUN weekend, delegates must put aside preexisting rivalries and play fairly in order to ensure the survival of tennis as we know and love it today. If committee fails, the future of the sport will be put in great jeopardy. Will committee hit an ace to win the match? That’s for you to decide.
Meet The Staff
Lauren Le
Chair
Dear Delegates,
Welcome! My name is Lauren, and I will be serving as the Chair for the ATP Council at LAMUN. I am a fourth-year pre-law student here at UCLA studying Political Science and Public Affairs about to graduate in just a few weeks! I am originally from Huntington Beach, California, just an hour south of Los Angeles (woo socal mun pipeline).
This is officially my 8th year in MUN—which means it really needs to be my last. Jokes aside, these past four years in UCLA MUN have been an absolute blast. I’ve had the chance to chair, serve as both a BruinMUN and LAMUN Under-Secretary-General (shoutout LAMUN XX), and travel across the country with our team! After being basically everywhere and doing everything with this club, my favorite part has always been the people. UCLA MUN has been such a welcoming community that has helped me find a second home in college and meet some lifelong friends. That’s the environment I hope to bring to all of you this conference!
Outside of MUN, I LOVE to play tennis, hence why this committee is my baby. After 13 years on the court, I’ve competed in high school, worked in tennis media, played on UCLA’s club team, and been able to see two minors in person! It’s one of my favorite things to do with old friends, new friends, and pretty much anyone willing to pick up a racquet, and I can’t wait to show you how fun the sport really is. Fun fact, my life goal is to be able to—well first attend—but be able to photograph the four current grand slams (jealous that Linde has been to the US Open). But besides tennis, I also have become a model LA citizen with my love for finding new coffee shops, thrifting, and going to trivia at Barney’s Beanery (iykyk). At the conference, ask me for recs (warning I will plug my top rated food account), what my current side quest intramural team is, or the latest theme night my roommates and I have hosted!
It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 2026 ATP planning council for the Final Grand Slam. I wish you all the best of luck in your research (get crazy. get creative.), and feel free to reach out if you have any questions at all. Here’s to making committee super fun and making this Grand Slam one to remember! Please help make me and Linde’s last LAMUN a great one!!
Sincerely,
Lauren Le | Chair | LAMUN XXI
Linde Spear
Crisis Director
Dear Delegates,
My name is Linde Spear (she/her) and I am very excited to be your Crisis Director for the Great Tennis Council committee! I am a current fourth year at UCLA double majoring in history and Arabic. On campus, I am not only involved with Model UN, but I also serve as the President for Bruin Democrats at UCLA. Outside of school, I enjoy hiking, cooking elaborate meals with friends, traveling, and, of course, watching tennis. Therefore, I am greatly looking forward to traveling into the world of my favorite sport with you all this weekend!
I have participated in Model UN since my first year of high school, where I represented Kuwait in a GA environmental committee. While I was exclusively a GA delegate and a GA chair before participating in MUN at the collegiate level, I have discovered my love for crisis committees since joining Model UN at UCLA. As such, I am elated to be working with a crisis committee at our LAMUN conference this year!
The Great Tennis Council will explore the complicated, and at times very messy world of tennis. Over the course of the weekend, delegates will navigate interpersonal drama, ethical coaching and playing practices, and financial worries currently plaguing the sport in an effort to ultimately add to the circuit a fifth grand slam. If delegates succeed, the future of the sport’s prosperity will be secured and able to be enjoyed by spectators for years to come. If delegates fail, the future of tennis as we know it will be put in jeopardy. I hope you all find great joy in exploring the complexities of the tennis world as you prepare for committee, and wish you all the best on your journeys. I look forward to working with you all soon!
Warmly,
Linde Spear
Crisis Director | The Great Tennis Council | LAMUN XX1