There will be Electronic Line Calling (ELC) at all ATP Tour-level events from 2025, eliminating the possibility of human error on line calls.
On the evidence of Tuesday night at the Cincinnati Open, a Masters 1000 tournament one level below a Grand Slam, it appears not.
In a first-round match between Americans Taylor Fritz and Brandon Nakashima, a malfunction with the ELC system showed that even with no line judges and no challenging of calls, there is still the scope for things to go wrong and for a player to have to make that familiar trudge up to the umpire to make their case.
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