By Eleanor Crooks
Emma Raducanu has urged Wimbledon to improve electronic line calling after saying she was disappointed by the technology during her defeat against Aryna Sabalenka.
A fully automated system has replaced human line judges 鈥 whose calls could be challenged using electronic reviews 鈥 for the first time at the Championships this year.
The two most vocal critics so far have been Britain鈥檚 leading players, with Raducanu going even further than Jack Draper after feeling one call in particular, when a Sabalenka shot was ruled to have clipped the line, was wrong.
鈥淭hat call was for sure out,鈥 said Raducanu after her intense 7-6 (6) 6-4 defeat by the world number one.
鈥淚t鈥檚 kind of disappointing, the tournament here, that the calls can be so wrong, but for the most part they鈥檝e been OK. I鈥檝e had a few in my other matches, too, that have been very wrong. Hopefully they can fix that.鈥
The technology has become standard across the tour, with all ATP Tour events and a lot of WTA ones no longer using line judges.
The same system operates at the Australian Open and the US Open but the French Open remains an outlier, so far eschewing any form of electronic system.
Draper queried one serve from Marin Cilic during his second-round loss on Thursday, and he said: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 100 per cent accurate, in all honesty. A couple of the ones today it showed a mark on the court. There鈥檚 no way the chalk would have showed.鈥
Wimbledon organisers have been contacted for comment.