No, line judges won’t be used at Wimbledon this summer season.
As an alternative, the grass-court match will rely solely on digital line calling, ending its 147-year use of line judges.
A well-known sight across the edges of the courts for many years, the women and men who shout “out” and “fault” can be changed by know-how.
This know-how can be in place for qualifying and the primary draw.
Digital line calling makes use of cameras, computer systems and sensors to trace a ball and is utilized by tennis umpires to guage whether or not a ball is in or out.
This season the lads’s tour – the ATP – has adopted the know-how throughout all of its occasions, whereas the WTA – the ladies’s tour – has additionally been utilizing it at lots of its occasions.
The ATP mentioned the transfer to digital line calling was to “optimise accuracy and consistency throughout tournaments, match courts and surfaces”.
A mixed males’s and girls’s occasion provides a simple alternative for the know-how for use throughout the 2 tournaments.
