The wrong electronic referee in Madrid expanded

In a hard victory 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (0) against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the second round of Madrid expanded on April 27, Zverev lost an injustice. The opponent deflected the wire but the electronic device reported the ball in the yard. This score comes in the ninth game of Set Hai, when Zverev led 5-4 and made the German player equalized 5-5 later.

The slow -slowing situation of TV shows the left hand cut of Davidovich Fokina put the ball out. But the referee Mohamed Lahyani was shown by the computer to see the image of the ball licking a few millimeters. The ATP tours this season have abandoned the referee to replace it with the hawk eye system and the referee does not need to go to the field to review the ball. The image shows a few centimeters away from the ball. "This is strange, if it is only 1.2 millimeters away, it can be explained. But this distance is very large, can be seen with the naked eye ", Zverev complained after the match.

Last week, the world's number one female tennis player Aryna Sabalenka had a similar problem when fighting Elise Mertens at the expanded Stuttgart. After the shot of the Belarus tennis player, the hawking eye system was out, but Sabalenka thought that the ball was still in the yard and took the phone to take pictures to prove. The referee rejected Sabalenka's complaint, and warned her about non -sports. "I admire technology and electronic devices to support people. I think it is very trustworthy, but it is clearly not always. I will talk to supervisors and ATP to see what they think. The referee may probably get off, but he said he followed the rules . In previous years, the referee often went to the yard to review the ball when there was doubt. However, ATP thinks this makes the game more time -consuming, so replaced with Hawk eye technology. However, the upcoming Roland Garros will still use the referee and the final decision will be given by the referee.