The Association of Tennis Professionals ATP has decided to do away with line-officials and bring in the Hawk-Eye Live system for all hardcourt Masters events that will take place this year.
The live-calling system — which makes instantaneous decisions on balls that are long or wide — will first feature this year at the tune-up events in Australia, along with the Australian Open that starts next week. The biggest stages however are the four Grand Slams. This pandemic-time measure to introduce the Hawk-Eye Live system, according to Tennis Majors, is aimed to decongest the court during a tennis match. Of the nine ATP events, six are played on hard courts — Indian Wells called-off this year, but may be postponed to a later date Miami, Canada Montreal and Toronto on an alternate basis , Cincinnati, Shanghai and Paris.
At the moment, the regular Hawk-Eye system which does not involve instantaneous calls, and instead has a review when a player calls for it is the least that is required for all hard and grass court events starting from the ATP and WTA levels. Clay court tournaments meanwhile are not required to have it and do not use any review technology. At the Australian Open, only center court matches utilize the technology. In , in response to the need to reduced the number of people on the court, the U.
Open tennis tournament replaced human line judges on 15 of 17 match courts with Hawk-Eye Live , an advanced system that makes automated line calls in real time. This Hawk-Eye Live system features 18 cameras, six of which are used by a review official to monitor foot faults.
The system uses recorded voices to make its calls, which shout "out," "fault" or "foot fault. Open will have only a chair umpire to call the score after the system makes the call, and they will take over only if the system malfunctions.
Although prior to the use of Hawkeye, players have maintained that they instinctively know when a ball is in or out, the evidence so far has not been conclusive. The process is started with some calibration of the cameras. This registers the distance at which cameras will see the pitch, and the ball. This technology helps referees and other umpires to make the correct decisions in any kind of game. It is a great tool which can be used by players and coaches to analyse previous games and come up with strategies for future ones.
However it is very difficult and complicated to set up, and very expensive. But coupled with a handful of big moments in the sports—none bigger than the Capriati—Williams match, he says—the history of tennis umpiring changed forever.
It soon carried over to tennis, where broadcasters signed on. After the September U. Open fiasco, Hawk-Eye got its break. Hawk-Eye technology detects the trajectory of a tennis ball as it bounces off the court by compiling images provided by 10 high-speed video cameras strategically placed at various different points around the court. It first made an appearance at the Royal Albert Hall Champions-level tournament in late before it was used during Hopman Cup in January Open Series and the U.
Hawk-Eye was used in close to 10 events in , including the U. Now the company handles about 95 annually, including three of the Grand Slam events. The French Open does not use the system. An unexpected byproduct of Hawk-Eye has been entertainment.
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