I will say again there is time for @atptour to make it happen, why wait till 2025 for electronic line calling, that missed double fault a 3-1 BP just shouldn’t happen, Sin City 🌆 probably kicking 🦵 himself he didn’t 🛑 and how did umpire miss it to #disheveled
"Jannik Sinner kicking himself, how did umpire miss?" says Brad Gilbert as line-calling issues grow amid Sinner incident
ATPSunday, 14 April 2024 at 10:20
Ex-coach of the former world number one Andre Agassi Brad
Gilbert has called for the introduction of electronic line calling after match
officials' error cost Italy’s Jannik Sinner a spot in the final of the
Monte-Carlo Masters. The current world number two suffered a rather surprising
defeat in the semifinal of the ongoing ATP 1000 event to Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas
with a score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Saturday.
During the third and deciding set of the match, Sinner was 3-1
up and had an advantage on the serve of Stefanos. The Greek’s serve while
trying to defend another break was clearly over the line but the match officials
failed to call it and he ended up winning the point which was good enough to
keep the serve. Had that serve been rightly called, Sinner would have ended that
game firmly in control with a lead of 4-1.
Gilbert, in a detailed post on his social media platform X —
previously known as Twitter — not only criticised the match officials for missing
such an important call but also further went on to as the authorities to introduce
electronic line calling. “I will say again there is time for @atptour to make
it happen, why wait till 2025 for electronic line calling, that missed double
fault a 3-1 BP just shouldn’t happen,
Sin City 🌆 probably kicking 🦵
himself he didn’t 🛑 and how did umpire miss
it to #disheveled,” he wrote.
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