There was more controversy around the electronic line call system at Wimbledon during Tuesday’s quater-final action as a point in Taylor Fritz’s match with Karen Khachanov had to be replayed because of a “malfunction” with the technology.
Wimbledon organisers apologised on Saturday after human error led to the system on Centre Court being turned off by mistake and missed three calls during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s match with Britain’s Sonay Kartal.
This time, ‘fault’ was erroneously called during play in the first match of the fourth set, with Fritz leading 15-0 after taking the first two sets 6-3 6-4, but losing the third 1-6.
After checking what the issue was over the phone, the umpire said: “Ladies and gentleman we will replay the last point because of a malfunction. The system is now working.”
The All England Club said after the error in the Pavlyunchenkova-Kartal match that they ‘continue to have full confidence in the accuracy of the ball-tracking technology’.
Changes were then made to remove the possibility of “human error” when operating the system.
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