You may need observed one thing lacking from the courts at Queen’s Membership this 12 months – the place have the road judges gone?
A well-known sight across the edges of the courts for many years, the women and men who shout “out” and “fault” have been changed by digital line calling.
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 boys’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.
A mixed males’s and girls’s occasion, corresponding to Queen’s, affords a straightforward alternative for the know-how for use throughout the 2 tournaments.
The ATP mentioned the transfer to digital line calling was to “optimise accuracy and consistency throughout tournaments, match courts and surfaces”.
A brand new girls’s occasion at Queen’s began on Monday, whereas the boys’s match follows on the similar venue per week later.
