A Monday mission saw The i Paper ask seven players, including seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, about the technology that was accidentally turned off due to “human error” during one match on Sunday.
Wimbledon apologised to the two players involved, Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Britain’s Sonay Kartal, and have since made changes to ELC to ensure the error “cannot now be repeated”.
'They stole the game from me' Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova wasn't happy when #Wimbledon's electronic line-calling system failed pic.twitter.com/JA0WIYSccD
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 6, 2025Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open winner, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Belinda Bencic both admitted to thinking their own serves had gone out on Monday, only for play to resume.
“I felt like I missed a serve by this much,” Cilic said, indicating around half a foot with his hands, “and it was called in.”
Cilic also queried the future quality of officials, pointing out chair umpires had previously been line judges at major tournaments. “What happens now? Where is your experience?”
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“Honestly, yes, I don’t trust it,” Bencic said. “It’s really stressful. Sometimes you see a ball that’s out. You want to stop playing, but now I’m reminding myself to just play every ball.
Djokovic, into the quarter-finals, was pro-tech when asked. The Serb had called for line judges to be replaced back in 2020, with ELC going on to be introduced at the Australian Open in 2021 and the US Open in 2022 before being widely used across the majority of tour-level events by 2025.
“I think that technology’s probably more accurate and making less mistakes than a lines person. But where you’re going to have a system failure and then it happens in an awkward time of the match, like yesterday, that’s not good.
“I didn’t feel in my matches so far I had some really bad calls from the system, to be honest. I don’t have any complaints in that regard.”
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