Via ATP: "The ATP has announced Tour-wide adoption of Electronic Line Calling Live (ELC Live) from 2025. The advanced officiating technology covers all court lines for ‘out’ calls throughout matches, a role traditionally carried out by on-court line judges."
ATP set to adopt tour-wide Electronic Line Calling from 2025 amid recent issues to begin clay-court swing
ATPFriday, 28 April 2023 at 16:30
After we saw several questionable calls early on in the clay season the ATP Tour is set to adopt tour-wide electronic line calling from 2025.
Electronic line calling has been quite a good innovation for tennis as it reduced the error rate to basically non-existent.
Humans are prone to errors and while many are for umpires to be present on a tennis court the sensible thing is to just adopt this and be done with it.
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The ATP Tour is set to do that from the 2025 season onward ending the need for mark-checking on clay courts.
These events are one of the final ones that resisted this tech because generally, you can see a mark. It's not perfect though as a recent high-profile mistake during the Djokovic and Musetti match created a lot of controversy. Djokovic believed the ball to be wide and the replay showed it was however the umpire called it in.
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