The All England Club is blaming human error for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.

Horrible” was the word that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the woman who grabbed the first quarterfinal spot at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, used to describe her ordeal with Lyme disease.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova overcame a line-calling technology malfunction on a key point en route to defeating Sonay Kartal 7-6 (3), 6-4 on Sunday to make her second Wimbledon quarterfinal nine years after her first appearance.

Wimbledon has been hit by yet another electric line-calling glitch with an umpire forced to halt a match on Tuesday to boos from an angry crowd. Hawk-Eye went off randomly during Taylor Fritz’s quarter-final victory over Karen Khachanov – despite the ball being nowhere near the lines.

For the first time in 148 years, Wimbledon has no line judges and is instead using electronic line calling. This means that the usual chants of ‘fault’ and ‘out’ are no longer coming from an actual human person, but instead are now coming from AI.

Follow live coverage from day seven of Wimbledon featuring Sonay Kartal, Cameron Norrie, Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz.

Live coverage from day seven of Wimbledon, with the remaining British singles hopes Sonay Kartal and Cameron Norrie in action.

Wimbledon 2025 live: Fresh Hawk-Eye controversy on Centre Court - Day seven at Wimbledon sees two British hopes in action as Sonay Kartal and Cameron Norrie bid to reach the quarter-finals