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.

A fully automated system has replaced human line judges at Wimbledon in 2025, a standard practice across tennis events.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova claimed a game was "stolen" from her during her Wimbledon match against Sonay Kartal due to a failure of the electronic line-calling (ELC) system. A shot by Kartal that was clearly out was not called by the ELC,

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Sonay Kartal was knocked out of Wimbledon after her Russian rival claimed the British player got special treatment when the electronic line calling failed on Centre Court. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 34, recovered to knock the last British female out of the singles 7-6 6-4.