Anastasia paviluchenkova Overcom a line-jolling technology malfunction on a major point n route to defeat local favorite Sonay Kartal 7-6 (3), 6-4 to create their second Wimbledon quarterfinal nine years after their first appearance on Sunday.
Pavlyuchenkova finally made a quarterfinal at All England Club in 2016, when she lost to the last champion Serena WilliamsThe nine -year period between the Wimbledon Quarter Final has been tied for the second longest by any woman in the open era. Svetlana Kuznetsova In 2007 and 2017, 10 years between their performance.
34-year-old Paviluchenkova said in his on-court interview, “I always thought that I was not quite good on the grass, so it is incredible for me.
The 2021 French Open Runner-up, Pavalichenkova won in straight sets despite the Hawk-I system, which was deactivating a time-time time and in difficult conditions, requiring the closing of the Center court’s roof.
Pavlyuchenkova was serving and the first set had a late game point when Kartal hit a backhand that landed beyond the opposite baseline – clearly out, showed the TV reply. But there was no voice with automatic line-coaling technology-this year adopted by the All England Club for the first time, to replace the line judges-and Pavali Bichenkova stopped playing.
The chair umpire Nico Helwan delayed playing, while he made a phone call from his stand and decided to do a do-over at this point at 4-All, which was a lot for the collapse of Pavaliichenkova.
All England Club spokesperson explained after the match: “Due to the operator error, the system was deactivated at this point. The chair umpire followed the installed process.”
When the game finally resumed, the Paviluchenkova missed a forehand on the replay, then lost the game after a few points.
“Because she is local, whatever they can say. You took the game away from me,” a fuming Paviluchenkova told Helworth about the change after the game was over.
Paviluchenkova recovered, however, when Kartal served at 5–4, and then saved a set point to win 15 of the final 23 points.
“My mental cruelty is getting better,” Paviluchenkova said after the match. “I used to be a little crazy in my head! But now I am learning to fight the point.”
Kartal said that she could not see where her shot went.
“This situation is a rareness. I don’t think it’s really ever happened – if it’s hard. It’s hard. What can you do? The umpire tried his best in that situation, and he handled it right,” Kartal said. “I think the system just a little bit of malfunction, and the most impartial way he did: repeat this point again.”
From 2007 to last year, the players were allowed to challenge the in-or-out calls in Wimbledon; A video review was employed to decide whether the decision of a line judge – or chair umpire was correct. The challenge system for the current tournament was removed.
The French Open is now the only Grand Slam tournament that still uses line judges instead of electronic calls.
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ESPN Research, Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
