Electronic system failure forces replay of point in Fritz’s Wimbledon victory

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Electronic system failure at Wimbledon forces point replay in quarter-final match

A glitch in Wimbledon’s new electronic line-calling system forced a point to be replayed during the quarter-final match between Taylor Fritz and Karen Khachanov on Tuesday. The incident occurred in the first game of the fourth set on court number 1, after Fritz served at 15-0 and the players exchanged shots. Then, a “fault” call was heard. Chair umpire Louise Azemar-Engzell stopped the game and, moments later, ordered the players to “replay the last point due to a fault”. According to the All England Club, the system had tracked Fritz’s shot in the rally as if it were a serve.

“The player’s service motion began while the ball boy was still crossing the net and, therefore, the system did not recognize the start of the point. Therefore, the chair umpire ordered that the point be replayed,” the club stated in a statement.

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Khachanov won the repeated point, but fifth-seeded Fritz advanced to the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4) victory. Wimbledon adopted the electronic system this year, which replaced the human line judges, but the transition has not been smooth.

On Sunday, there was a clear error on the center court during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s victory over Sonay Kartal in three sets in the fourth round. A shot by Kartal clearly landed beyond the baseline, but the automated system, called Hawk-Eye, did not mark it as out because it had gone down.

On Monday, club officials blamed “human error” for the failure. Club CEO Sally Bolton said the technology was “inadvertently switched off” by someone during three points of the match.
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