Within the Hawk-Eye software program constructed within the British, it’s darkish throughout the Wimbledon match

Wimbledon's new automated management calling system disturbed on Sunday, just a few days after it replaced the tournament's human line judges for the first time.

The system called HAWK-Eye uses a network of cameras that are equipped with computer vision to track tennis balls in real time. When the ball runs out, a pre -drawn voice says loudly: “Out of”. If the ball is in there, there is no call and game.

However, the software was temporarily dark during a women's individual game between women Brit Sonay Kartal and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova On the Center Court.

With 4: 4 in the opening set, Pavlyuchenkova reached the game point when Kartal fired a shot, the significantly landed Hawk-Eye remained. Without a call from the system, the referee ordered a repetition of the point, although video repetitions confirmed the error.

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Pavlyuchenkova was angry. “You stole the game for me,” she said to the referee, Reuters Reports. The Russian lost the game, but finally gathered to win the match.

After the incident, Wimbledon CEO Sally Bolton accused human mistakes for the costly malfunction of HAWK-Eye.

“The electronic line call system worked optimally,” said Bolton on Monday morning. In the Ubiten Reports.

“The problem we had was a human failure in relation to the persecution system that was accidentally deactivated, and then the chair of the chair was not made aware that it had been deactivated.”

A frequent sight in sport

First developed in Great Britain by computer scientists Paul Hawkins and later acquired by Sony In 2011, Hawk-Eye has become a common feature in sports such as tennis, football, cricket and volleyball.

However, The technology has also suspended its appropriate proportion of criticism.

In February 2024, Hawk-Eye's accuracy in the cricket was questioned after a call in an English India game Derilized concerns About the precision of ball tracking. In 2022 the Gälic Athletic Association (GAA) Hawk-Eye suspended after it incorrectly rejected a clear point for Galway in the All-Ireland Football semi-final. Raise doubts About the reliability of the system.

However, most agree that the automated system is more precise than human referees a study were found to make Errors in 27% of cases in which HAWK-Eye was asked to check a decision. This means that all 17.4 games have occurred a referee error.

Jamie Baker, the tournament director of Wimbledon, defended the system last week after the British player Jack Draper had accompanied his accuracy.

“The concept of the live line calling is now absolutely standard on the entire tour -mandatory on the ATP tour”. Said Baker. “Two of the other Grand Slams [US Open and Australian Open] I have had it for four or five years. “

We contacted Hawk-Eye for a comment on this case and updated this article when we receive an answer.