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Hawk Eye System Misbehavior in Taylor Fritz's Wimbledon Win
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Hawk Eye System Misbehavior in Taylor Fritz’s Wimbledon Win

July 9, 2025 4 Min Read
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A malfunction with Wimbledon’s new electronic line call system required it to play in the quarterfinals of Taylor Fritz and Karen Kachanoff on Tuesday.

The latest issue of this system occurred during the opening game of the fourth set in Court No. 1 after Fritz served 15-0 and players exchanged shots. Then came a random “disabled” call.

Chairman Judge Louise Azemer Enzel stopped playing and after a while announced, “Women and Gentlemen, play the final point for a malfunction.”

The system tracked Fritz’s shots in the rally, as if it were a serve, the All England Club said.

“The system didn’t recognize the beginning of the point as the player’s service movement began while (ball boy/ball girl) was still over the net.

After the call to the “fault,” a confused Fritz turned to the judge’s chair and opened his arms as if to ask, “What was it?”

Neither player seemed upset, and Kachanov scored the points that were reclaimed, but the fifth seed Fritz made it to the semi-finals with a 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4) victory.

“If it happens at breakpoints, deuces, or tiebreakers, OK, you can get even more mad,” said 17th seed Kachanov. “But it was just the beginning of the set, 15 Love or Love-15. I don’t remember. It might not have been such a significant moment. So I was really focused and calm.”

Wimbledon switched to an electronic system that replaces human judges this year, but that wasn’t smooth.

On Sunday, there was an obvious mistake on centre court during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s three-set victory over Sonay Kartal in the fourth round. The shot by Cartal clearly landed past the baseline, but was not called by an automated setup (called Hawk-Eye).

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On Monday, club officials denounced “human errors” for surveillance. Club CEO Sally Bolton said the technology was “inadvertently exempt” by someone with three points in the match.

Fritz, who faces the defending champion in the final spot, said he still prefers the new system.

“There will be some issues here and there, but to be honest, I think it would be much better if the electronic line call (the system) just calls the line, in contrast to the judge,” he said.

“I like not having to think about challenging calls in the middle of the point,” Fritz continued. “We like that there’s no need to discuss the phone or all of this. I think it’s a better system.”

His opponent is not that convincing.

“To be honest, I’m more for the line judgement. … You feel a little bit that the court is too big. “The electronic line call should be accurate and incorrect, but we saw a couple. It’s suspicious. Why is this happening? Is it just a machine error or why?”

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to the report.

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