“It’s something I’m really trying to push for, because I feel like there’s way too many controversial calls. Open, the figure for all events was 29.1%.Ĭould simply be a result of more and more players posting on social media when they believe a ruling was wrong. Back in 2013, for example, Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine was fined $2,000 for pulling out his cell phone during a first-round loss at the French Open to snap a photo of a mark he thought was misjudged.īut the chorus seems to be louder now, because of the perception that there have been “so many mistakes from the umpires this year,” said Borna Coric, a Croatian seeded 13th at Roland Garros.Īll non-clay ATP tournaments are required to use electronic line-calling the statistics kept by the men’s tour show that the number of calls reversed on review has been between 28-29% in each of the past five years, including in 2019. I’m not calling them cheaters, of course, but it doesn’t look sometimes like it’s all the way out but they go, ‘Out.’” They all view whether it’s in or out differently. I also think that some chair umpires vary. “Because of the way they sweep the lines on clay courts, sometimes you can’t see for sure if the ball hit the line or not. They should use it,” said Chris Evert, who won seven of her 18 major trophies in Paris. “Would you like to have a court with no chair umpire, no linesmen, just electronic line-calling? Is that something we really want in the future? I think we’d miss something.”Ī certain je ne sais quoi that makes the French Open stand apart from other majors. because, historically, we’ve been judging the course of a ball and where it lands on the court by the mark it leaves on the clay,” Forget said. “If we don’t use it - and I don’t think we ever will - it’s. Technology is something every sport should use, as much as possible,” tournament director Guy Forget said in an interview. Still, no one should expect a change anytime soon. Open champion Sam Stosur said, “so why can’t you use it for us?”

After all, television broadcasters often show viewers what Hawk-Eye would have determined. Which is why some players are calling for clay tournaments - the French Open, which concludes Sunday, in particular - to make this pas de deux a relic of the past and give chair umpires and line judges some help. Open and Australian Open, or the grass courts at Wimbledon, balls leave an indelible imprint on the red dirt, so let’s dispense with any technological assistance and instead just check the mark with our own eyes. The thinking goes: Unlike on the hard courts at the U.S. It’s unique in Grand Slam tennis to Roland Garros, because the other three major tournaments use the Hawk-Eye review system during matches, the way most sports have embraced this sort of thing.

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