By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Hearing an umpire name “not up” throughout a match can usually trigger arguments with gamers.
But which will all change at this month’s US Open.
According to the AP, the ultimate main in Flushing Meadows, New York will permit umpires to make the most of video expertise to help them in calling double bounces throughout a match.
The video evaluation, which will likely be separate from the already in-place digital line calling utilized in all matches, will happen on 5 courts on the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center as a part of a trial run. Those courts embrace Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium, Grandstand, Court 5 and Court 17.
After the match ends, the outcomes from these courts will likely be reviewed to find out whether or not or not the video expertise will likely be expanded to all courts in 2024.
Double bounces, and the confusion they will trigger gamers and umpires, usually brings up controversy.
At this yr’s Roland Garros, umpire Kader Nouni didn’t see {that a} ball bounced twice in the course of the Holger Rune and Francisco Cerundolo fourth spherical match. Nouni ended up penalizing Cerundolo who stopped mid-way via the purpose when a ball child entered the courtroom considering that the purpose was over.
👀 The umpire misses a transparent double-bounce
😬 The ball child steps onto the courtroom on the similar time
🤯 Cerundolo finally ends up being damaged on the finish of the sport𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐲 within the match between Holger Rune and Francisco Cerundolo! 😲#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/QspfKU3r1V
— Eurosport (@eurosport) June 5, 2023
In addition at this yr’s US Open, gamers in singles, doubles, and combined doubles will get three challenges for issues like double bounces, balls touching a participant’s physique, a participant touching the web, or being hindered by noise. Players will maintain a problem if appropriate, and get one further in a tiebreak.
The updates in challenges given to gamers is welcomed by many since all-electronic line calling has carried out away with the earlier problem system. Players can ask to see an digital line name replayed, however as a courtesy solely.
Video evaluation was beforehand examined at smaller males’s occasions together with the ATP Cup and Next Gen Finals, however not but at a girls’s occasion.
One further rule that’s now formally written into the principles for 2023 entails defaulting a participant. If a participant does one thing that would end in a default, video evaluation will assist official decide if disqualification is justified.
Novak Djokovic was probably the most well-known, latest occasion of a participant being defaulted. He was defaulted from the 2020 US Open after he inadvertently hit a line decide throughout his fourth-round match towards Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta.
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