The Tennis Thread
Discussion
Bannock said:
Just idly wondering why they bother with line judges any more when Hawkeye could do every 'out' call automatically.
Tradition and jobs for the boys and girls, I expect. Bit silly, really.
Can it give you an instantaneous call every time, or do you have to stand around and wait after every shot while it decides?Tradition and jobs for the boys and girls, I expect. Bit silly, really.
thegreenhell said:
Bannock said:
Just idly wondering why they bother with line judges any more when Hawkeye could do every 'out' call automatically.
Tradition and jobs for the boys and girls, I expect. Bit silly, really.
Can it give you an instantaneous call every time, or do you have to stand around and wait after every shot while it decides?Tradition and jobs for the boys and girls, I expect. Bit silly, really.
Bannock said:
I imagined it's instantaneous. Maybe it isn't.
I imagine the result is instant but it takes a bit of time for the graphics to build to be shown. Similar tech in cricket when then want ball tracking you often hear the 3rd umpire day waiting for ball tracking to build. Possibly that's a bit complicated as it needs to workout where the ball was going for tennis it just needs to know if it hit a line or not
Scabutz said:
Bannock said:
I imagined it's instantaneous. Maybe it isn't.
I imagine the result is instant but it takes a bit of time for the graphics to build to be shown. Similar tech in cricket when then want ball tracking you often hear the 3rd umpire day waiting for ball tracking to build. Possibly that's a bit complicated as it needs to workout where the ball was going for tennis it just needs to know if it hit a line or not
Why do the BBC insist on using McEnroe for comments? I don't mind him but he must be horrendously expensive when there is no advertising to pay for it. Licence fee money could be spent elsewhere. Not as quite as bad as paying Becker but still, makes little sense. I much prefer the Amazon commentators who must be a tiny fraction of his fees.
Bonefish Blues said:
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