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,

Highlights of the seventh day at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Saturday (times GMT):1445 PAVLYUCHENKOVA BEATS KARTALAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the second time in her career,

Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus reacts after winning a point against Belgium's Elise Mertens during a fourth round women's singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday, July 6, 2025.

It’s Iga Świątek, the five-time Grand Slam champion who spent 125 weeks as the world No. 1 between early 2022 and late 2024. She’s the No. 8 seed at Wimbledon, but she’s actually the world No. 4. Only three of the top seven players in the world are left in the draw.