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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Eleanor Crooks

Wimbledon chiefs retain confidence in line-calling tech despite Sunday’s blunder

Wimbledon bosses are “deeply disappointed” by Sunday’s electronic line calling failure but insist they are confident it will not happen again.

Officials blamed human error for the incident at a crucial stage of the fourth-round match between Sonay Kartal and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, with the system inadvertently turned off and not flagging that a shot from the British player was out.

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