Wimbledon’s Centre Court recently highlighted tensions between human officiating and electronic line-calling when a crucial point was replayed due to a malfunction in the system, leading to player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova feeling the game was unfairly ‘stolen’ from her. While some, like former champion Pat Cash, endorse the accuracy of the Hawk-Eye system, the incident sparked debate about the role of technology in tennis officiating, prompting the All England Lawn Tennis Club to ensure the system cannot be manually deactivated in the future.
Explain It To Me Like I’m 5: During a tennis match at Wimbledon, a computer that helps call the lines stopped working, causing confusion and making one player feel unfairly treated, but later it was found out that someone had accidentally turned it off.
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