Electronic line calling (ELC) technology will be implemented at Wimbledon for the 2025 Championships, bringing to an end the role of the line judge after 147 years patrolling the courts in SW19. The ...

Of the four Grand Slams that take place each year on the tennis calendar, perhaps the most traditional one is Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club — it is the oldest of the four, ...

Line umpires suppervise the men's singles tennis match between Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff on the first day of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis ...

CENTRE COURT, THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB — Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova suggested her British opponent may have received preferential treatment as simmering tensions around Wimbledon’s use of electronic line ...

Pauline Eyre still remembers the “extraordinary feeling” of making her first appearance at Wimbledon aged 21, taking in the noise and the crowds as she marched onto the pristine grass courts, neat and ...

The grass-court Grand Slam announced it will switch to electronic-line calling next year. The grass-court Grand Slam announced it will switch to electronic-line calling next year. is a features editor ...

Wimbledon is replacing human line judges with electric line-calling. The All England Club announced Wednesday that technology will be used to give the "out" and "fault" calls at the championships from ...

"When in doubt, call it out." That’s the unfortunate philosophy many players use when it comes to line-calling. Tennis is one of the few sports in which the participants also serve as the officials.

“Can you make it make sense?” Alex Eala asked after her defeat to Iga Świątek at the Madrid Open in April. Eala, a 19-year-old emerging talent from the Philippines, was not talking about her three-set ...