Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova mentioned a sport was ‘stolen’ from her when Wimbledon’s digital line-calling system failed throughout her fourth-round match in opposition to Britain’s Sonay Kartal.
There was no ‘out’ name when a Kartal backhand went lengthy at 4-4 within the first set, with chair umpire Nico Helwerth shouting “cease, cease” to halt play.
Russian Pavlyuchenkova had seen the ball was out – and a TV replay confirmed that was the case by far.
Addressing the group, Helwerth mentioned: “We’re simply going to examine if the system was up and operating, as a result of there was no audio name.”
After a phone name, he mentioned the digital system “was sadly unable to trace the final level so we are going to replay the purpose”.
Had the ball been referred to as out, Pavlyuchenkova would have received the purpose and brought the lead.
As a substitute, it was replayed, Kartal received the purpose and went on to interrupt for a 5-4 lead.
