After the flop in the match between Pavlyuchenova and Kartal, another incorrect call in the first game of the fourth set. Khachanov: “It was not a crucial moment, we were calm”
Falco’s eye does not see us very well. Fritz and Khachanov had to replay the second point of the fourth set for a malfunction of the new electronic Wimbledon system that judges whether a ball is inside or outside. It happened in the first game of the fourth set, on field number 1, after Fritz had served on 15-0 and players were playing. Suddenly an Out call arrived, the Louise Azemar-Engzell chair judge interrupted the game and a few moments later announced: “Lord and gentlemen, we will repeat the last point due to a malfunction”.
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The system had followed Fritz’s coup in the exchange as if it were a service, said the All England Club, then reported out a ball that was abundantly inside the bottom line, but outside the service line. “The player’s service movement began while the gruesome was still crossing the network, so the system did not recognize the beginning of the point. Therefore, the chair referee ordered the repetition of the point,” explained the club in a press release. After the call of “out”, Perplex Fritz turned to the referee’s chair and enlarged his hands as if to ask “what happened?”.
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Khachanov won the replayed point, but Fritz won the challenge of the quarterfinals 6-3 6-4 1-6 7-6 (4). “If it happened on a break ball, a tie or in a tie-break, ok, you can take it more-said Khachanov-but it was only the start of the set, 15-0 or 0-15. I don’t remember. It was not such an important moment. That’s why I was very concentrated and calm”. This year Wimbledon went to the electronic system that replaced the human line judges, but the change recorded some flaws. Sunday, there was an evident mistake on the central field during the victory of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in three sets on Sonay Kartal in a round of 16. A shot of Kartal has clearly finished beyond the bottom line, but it was not called out of the automatic system-called Hawk-Eye-because at that moment it was off. On Monday, the club managers attributed the oversight to a “human error”. The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said that the technology was “inadvertently deactivated” by someone for three points in the game.
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Fritz, who will face the reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz for a place in the final, said he preferred the new system. “There will be some problems here and there, but I think it is much better to have the electronic system to call out rather than the referees,” he said. “I like the fact that I don’t have to think about challenging calls in the middle of a point,” continued Fritz. “I like the fact that we must not discuss decisions and everything else. I think it’s a better system than before.”
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