During a combined doubles match at the ongoing Australian Open, the players were really baffled.
Australian pair John-Patrick Smith and Lizette Canbrera faced Rafael Matos and Luisa Stefani when the generation of electronic line calls made a shocking mistake on the first point of the match. After Smith’s first service landed within the service area, it was announced through the automated system.
The attack had to be stopped for a few minutes while the chair umpire called other officers to rectify the challenge with technology, and he controlled to do so and Smith was able to serve again. The electronic call was first introduced at the Australian Open in 2021.
He replaced linemen in an effort to reduce the number of on-site staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. The generation works with remote tracking cameras around the field, sending real-time audio line calls. However, the generation makes occasional mistakes.
The generation came under fire through Jelena Ostapenko following her fourth-round win over Coco Gauff at Melbourne Park. The Latvian nevertheless gave a vote of censure to former player Laura Robson in her interview on the field. “He asked when asked if he had religion in each and every call. “To be honest, no!”
“Honestly, this live electronic system, I don’t know. Sometimes it seems like you’re making mistakes. Of course, we have to play. Sometimes I look at my team because I know I’m wrong, but I feel like some balls. “They’re pretty close, so I need to know what they think about the call.
The 25-year-old criticized the electronic hotline after losing her quarter-final to Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina.
“I’m not satisfied with the formula they’re using,” she said. “Sometimes it wasn’t even a few centimeters. It was much more than that. But there’s nothing I can do about it, because that’s the way. “It is. First of all, [the calls] are overdue. You’ve already hit the ball, and then you hear “out,” which isn’t usually the case with line referees.
“And secondly, a few balls were enough, as they say, not a little outside. They were [quite] a little absent and were not called. ” formula and linesmen, who has not worked at the Grand Slams for two years.
“Honestly, my non-public opinion, I would like it to be the Hawk-Eye formula and line referees, because I feel like it’s more accurate and has a lot of [fewer] errors, in my opinion,” he added in 2017. Roland Garros champion.
“I also think that way it looks a little better for me on the field. Not only in terms of calls, but in general, how the field looks, because the linesmen, for me, it looks a bit empty. “
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