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\n An automated line-calling system has replaced human line judges at Wimbledon this year, and it\u2019s fair to say the transition hasn\u2019t been entirely smooth.\n <\/p>\n
\n Even before the first matches got underway, many felt that parting with line umpires \u2014 a mainstay of Wimbledon\u2019s 148-year history \u2014 would make the tournament poorer.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cAt the end of the day, a tennis match is sport, and sport is about people,\u201d Pauline Eyre, a former line judge who officiated at Wimbledon on 16 occasions, told CNN Sports<\/a>. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think technology necessarily makes everything better. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s improving the quality of the line-calling, because line-calling was always excellent.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n During the tournament itself, there have been teething issues with the new technology. The most notable came during the fourth-round contest<\/a> between Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Great Britain\u2019s Sonay Kartal, when the electronic line-calling system was turned off.\n <\/p>\n \n Wimbledon organizers later explained that a \u201chuman error\u201d had resulted in no call being made when Kartal hit a backhand long, but the incident ultimately cost Pavlyuchenkova the game when the point was replayed.\n <\/p>\n \n An apology was later made to the players, and organizers removed the ability for Hawk-Eye operators to manually deactivate the ball tracking.\n <\/p>\n