THE Hawk-Eye live electronic line calling at Wimbledon malfunctioned on Centre Court.
Sonay Kartal took on Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the last 16.
The Hawk-Eye live system failed at a crucial point on Centre Court[/caption]
The umpire tried to get to the bottom of the situation[/caption]
But the Brit’s shot bounced well long at advantage Pavlyuchenkova at 4-4 in the first set.
However, there was no call from the live system – even though replays showed it was clearly out.
The audio system then declared “stop, stop”.
That led to a stoppage as the umpire got on his phone to work out what was happening.
And despite the Kartal shot clearly being out, there was no video replay available to the umpire.
Therefore a let meant the point was replayed, although she should have had the game.
Incredibly, Kartal battled back and won the replayed point and went on to break at a crucial.
Pavlyuchenkova complained to the umpire when she returned to her seat.
She quite rightly moaned: “You took the game away from me.”
This is the first year of Wimbledon since the tournament ditched human line judges for the AI live system.
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