Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova claimed that a game was ‘stolen’ on Sunday in her fourth round Wimbledon match with Sonay Kartal, after a failure of the Electronic Line-Calling (ELC) system.
The British Kartal hit a ground shot far beyond the baseline, as proven by a video -recalcation, but the new ELC technology had failed, which means that the error was not mentioned.
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A short break in action followed, with neither players sure how to go, before the referee spoke the crowd and grabbed a phone and spoke with colleagues.
After a few minutes, the referee announced those present at the center of the court that the point should be played, despite the fact that it should have clearly been Pavlyuchenkova’s-a point that would have seen her serve for a 5-4 lead in the first set.
Pavlyuchenkova lost the following point, quickly fought back and forth with Kartal and eventually lost the game. That broke Kartal Serve and got the chance to serve for the set.
Former French open second place Pavlyuchenkova, 34, remained calm during the game, but let her frustration out during the subsequent switch.
She said to the referee: “You took the game away from me”, where the civil servant seemed to tell her that the rules surrounding the system were the fault. “They have stolen the game of mine, they stolen it,” replied Pavlyuchenkova.
In these situations, if they are, civil servants cannot trust whether the video repetitions can be seen that broadcasters can be seen.
Pavlyuchenkova actually broke the Serve of Kartal in the next game to bring the score to 5-5 before both players served to force a tiebreak. Pavlyuchenkova won that tiebreak, which means that her lost point did not cost her anything in the long term, although it clearly caused her stress at the time and could mean that she had to spend more energy in what was a longer set.
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This year the first edition of Wimbledon marks the ELC, which after 147 years of their work at the Gras-Court Grand Slam replaces the human line tour.
Electronic Line Cally was made by Hawk-Eye, the groundbreaking company that leads in the lead in sports technology. The first Hawk-Eye system was developed by British computer expert Paul Hawkins in 2001 and was deployed by several sports, including cricket for Been-Before-Wicket decisions and the goal line of football.
Hawk-Eye repetitions have been used in tennis since debuting at the US Open in 2006, so that players can challenge questionable calls. But that will soon be a thing of the past as the same technology that fed results in the game, known as ELC or Hawk-Eye Live. The Australian and the US opened the line judges already replaced by electronic calling, although the French open is still dependent on the human eye. That is a little easier at Roland Garros, where the landing figure of the ball tends to appear on the dusty clay surface.
Players have supported the roll -out on a large scale and the organizers of Wimbledon found the tournament to be outdated if it could not keep up with technological progress in the game.
ELC was used for the first time as an experiment at the ATP Next Gen Finals in Milan in 2018 and was taken over during the COVID-19 Pandemie. It was used at all courts in ATP Tour events in 2025.
The ELC technology works by following balls using 18 cameras set up around the field. The cameras capture the movement of the ball while a computer interprets the location in real time, producing an accurate three -dimensional representation of the court and the process of the ball in it.
An automated voice mimics it from a line judge, with a loud call from “Out!”, “Fault!” Or “Footfout” broadcast within a tenth of a second. A video operator supervises technology from an external room. Chairman referees continue to take a seat with a view of the court to enforce the rules of the game.
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