Mumbai: When asked how she would have felt if that point, which has since become the topic of conversation at Wimbledon, had cost her the match, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova replied, "I would just say that I hate Wimbledon and never come back here."

Pavlyuchenkova was able to laugh about it later because she was able to be human about it (and, well, because it didn't lose her the game).

By chance, the human touch has vanished from the on-court officiating system at Wimbledon. Ironically, at a Grand Slam tournament that emphasizes tradition.

Line judges, the sharply dressed men and women who were strewn throughout the green and brought the theater to life around line calls and questionable judgments, have been eliminated from Wimbledon after 147 years of existence. The electronic line-calling system, which uses 12 cameras every court and transmits on 144 monitors in a space run by over 50 individuals, has taken its place.

The issue is not exactly that, as the majority of ATP and WTA competitions and all Slams outside the French Open now employ this system. The fact that this system was missing for nearly a whole match for calls on half of the Centre Court was not the urgent issue (unless, of course, you are Pavlyuchenkova, who had to replay a game point she had won before losing the point and the game).

The major issue was that nobody on that court, including the players and the head umpire, could do anything about it. Even with the help of modern Hawk-Eye technology, which enhanced the human eye and supported athletes who wanted to compete against it, that was not the case in the past.

This is where tennis in general, and this Wimbledon in particular, has lost the human aspect of the game.

Even in the widely discussed Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system used in football, there is still a dialogue between the referee on the field and the virtual assistant off the field. The on-field umpire's decision remains a vital part of LBW judgments in cricket's Decision Review System (DRS).

The chair umpire could only stop and replay the point at the most important moment of that 4-4 contest, in the most evident 'out' call that the electronic system was unable to recognize. Unlike the way umpires and judges have been making calls for years, this is different.

Universe The incident brought up the most fundamental question from No. 5 Taylor Fritz: "The chair umpire is in charge of making the call. Why is he there if he's not going to call the ball?"

There must be a justification for human intervention when technology is either malfunctioning or dormant, which, statistically speaking, accounts for a very small proportion of all calls. In this instance, it wasn't just partially, but completely.

"For this reason, we have a chair umpire. I believe that we will soon be playing without them, and then everything will be automatic," Pavlyuchenkova said. "I think we are losing a little bit of the charm of actually having human beings... it just becomes a little bit weird and robot oriented."

The "robot oriented" system doesn't seem to be very popular with the players. According to Belinda Bencic, the discussion is a popular one in locker rooms. Numerous players have expressed doubts about the reliability of the electronic system in this Wimbledon alone. In contrast to Jack Draper of the United Kingdom, who thought that it was not entirely true, Emma Raducanu thought that there were incorrect calls in her defeat to Aryna Sabalenka.

When asked if she had faith in the system, Raducanu replied, "No, I don't. I think the other players would say the same thing. There were some pretty dodgy ones, but what can you do?"

The athletes could have done something sooner. Players were able to challenge calls following Hawk-Eye's debut in tennis in 2007. In addition to increasing the drama, that procedure successfully combined the best aspects of both worlds while also giving importance to the other people on the court, namely the players.

The players themselves are left mechanical in the largely robotic practice now that that is also gone. Is there another irony in this whole thing? The electronic system's malfunction, according to Wimbledon, was the result of human mistake.

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