Rome, Sept. 29 (LaPresse) \u2013 The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has announced that line judges will still be present at the 2026 edition of Roland-Garros. The Parisian Slam is the last major global tournament to retain the presence of line judges. The Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open have all switched to electronic line-calling systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a federation where umpires and line judges work every day and, I say this with all humility, we are the best country for providing officials on the tour. We take pride in this, we have a strong training system. We are a benchmark and we want to stay that way. The federation\u2019s will is to keep line judges as long as possible; right now, the players are driving the train. If one day they unanimously say: \u2018We won\u2019t play without the machine,\u2019 we\u2019ll see\u2026 But I believe we have a bright future ahead to preserve this officiating pyramid,\u201d said FFT president Gilles Moretton.<\/p>\n
At the 2025 edition of the tournament, 404 match officials were present, including 284 French representatives from all French leagues. These umpires and line judges are rigorously selected from around 30,000 officials in France, who officiate year-round across leagues, departmental committees, and FFT-affiliated clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rome, Sept. 29 (LaPresse) \u2013 The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has announced that line judges will still be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-178053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}