{"id":707676,"date":"2026-06-01T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707676\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:33:12","slug":"french-open-chief-mauresmo-backs-human-judgment-after-ruud-line-call-controversy-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707676\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open chief Mauresmo backs human judgment after Ruud line-call controversy \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 French Open director Amelie Mauresmo said on Monday that electronic line-calling is not 100% reliable on clay courts and has no immediate plans to introduce the technology at Roland Garros despite a controversial call during Casper Ruud\u2019s loss against Joao Fonseca.<\/p>\n

Ruud, a two-time runner-up in Paris, ultimately lost the fourth-round match 7-5, 7-6 (8), 5-7, 6-2 on Sunday evening. During the second-set tiebreaker, with Ruud up 8-7, a spectator in the crowd shouted that a forehand down the line hit by Fonseca had landed out. The chair umpire came down to check the mark and ruled that the Brazilian\u2019s shot was in, handing him the point.<\/p>\n

An electronic line-calling on television showed the ball was out.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoland Garros tournament director and former tennis star Amelie Mauresmo, left, watches as Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland, right, returns to Jesper De Jong of the Netherlands during their first round men’s singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

Mauresmo, however, remains old school and said on Monday she still picks humans over technology, because it can\u2019t be trusted entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we observed at the clay-court tournaments leading up to Roland Garros is that the reliability of this system is not absolute,\u201d she told journalists. \u201cAs of today, the machine is not 100 percent reliable, so we continue to place our confidence in human officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wimbledon, the oldest Grand Slam tournament, replaced line judges with electronic line-calling last year. The move made the French Open the only major without some form of electronic line-calling. The Australian Open and U.S. Open already had eliminated line judges and only have chair umpires on court.<\/p>\n

The WTA and ATP have added machine-generated rulings for events on red clay, but Grand Slam hosts can do what they want. Although disputes over marks are not rare at Roland Garros, Mauresmo said that many players recognize that the system is not entirely reliable on clay, a live surface constantly changing with weather conditions that poses challenges to accurate digital tracking.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo we have received no real feedback pushing us in that direction (of electronic line-calling),\u201d she said, adding that a review will be made after the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us today, what matters is reaffirming our trust in human officials,\u201d Mauresmo said. \u201cWe\u2019ve made that choice for 2026. As for 2027, we\u2019ll see. We remain open to any new technology that becomes available to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mauresmo said that looking at Rudd\u2019s reaction after the call, she could tell \u201che was not shocked by the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 French Open director Amelie Mauresmo said on Monday that electronic line-calling is not 100% reliable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-707676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}