Dear MEL Topic Readers,
From Wimbledon to VAR, is tech hurting the drama of sport?
A line judge is an official positioned near one of the lines of the
court of tennis, volleyball, or badminton, who is responsible for indicating
whether a ball or shuttle has landed in or out of the line. In the Wimbledon
tennis championship, there are nine line judges at a time on the center
court. A player is given three challenges against human judgment to ask for an electronic
line call. As the accuracy and dependability of the electronic judging
system have exceeded human eyes, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour
has decided to replace human line judge with an electronic system starting next
season. Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis tournament, has been using line
judges since 1877 but will no longer use the 300 line judges. When the
electronic line call can overrule the human eye, why do human judges need to
make a call in the first place? Electronic judging seems to be well accepted in
other sports like football, but the video assistant referee (VAR) is not so
well. Why?
Read the article and learn how technologies work in sports games.
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