The governing body at the top of men's tennis has confirmed plans to use technology instead of on-court line judges.
The ATP, in a statement released on Friday, said they will remove human line judges from all men’s events from the year 2025 in order to “optimise accuracy and consistency”. Electronic Line Calling Live (ELC Live) was introduced to some tournaments in 2017 with the Australian Open and US Open making the switch in the years since.
And that is now set to be rolled out to all of its tournaments, with a statement released by ATP confirming the change. They claim the switch is “supported by extensive research across tennis stakeholders, including fans, which identified accuracy and consistency as the most important factors in assessing different line-calling systems.”
