Electronic line calling (ELC) technology will be implemented at Wimbledon for the 2025 Championships, bringing to an end the role of the line judge after 147 years patrolling the courts in SW19. The ...
CENTRE COURT, THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB — Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova suggested her British opponent may have received preferential treatment as simmering tensions around Wimbledon’s use of electronic line ...
LONDON — The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon. The CEO of the club, ...
Wimbledon is replacing human line judges with electric line-calling. The All England Club announced Wednesday that technology will be used to give the "out" and "fault" calls at the championships from ...
The French Open does not use electronic line calling and continues to rely on line judges and umpires - as well as using ball marks left on clay to determine whether shots are in or not. Roland Garros ...
Pauline Eyre still remembers the “extraordinary feeling” of making her first appearance at Wimbledon aged 21, taking in the noise and the crowds as she marched onto the pristine grass courts, neat and ...
“Can you make it make sense?” Alex Eala asked after her defeat to Iga Świątek at the Madrid Open in April. Eala, a 19-year-old emerging talent from the Philippines, was not talking about her three-set ...
Wimbledon organizers have apologized and explained that “human error” was the reason behind the electronic line-calling system being turned off during a match on Sunday – and the tournament ...
"When in doubt, call it out." That’s the unfortunate philosophy many players use when it comes to line-calling. Tennis is one of the few sports in which the participants also serve as the officials.
The grass-court Grand Slam announced it will switch to electronic-line calling next year. The grass-court Grand Slam announced it will switch to electronic-line calling next year. is a features editor ...
LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - Wimbledon's automated line-calling technology came under fire on Sunday after an embarrassing malfunction robbed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of a point during her last-16 ...