You cannot be serious?

WIMBLEDON issued a grovelling apology last night for an embarrassing failure of their new electronic line calling system. But not before Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova accused the German umpire of being "scared" to make a decision against "local" Sonay Kartal. This is the first year that human line judges have been replaced by automated line calling at SW19.

- By Neil McLeman

Because she’s local, they can say whatever.

Nearly six hours after the incident, a spokesperson for the All England Club said: “It is now clear that the live ELC system, which was working optimally, was deactivated in error on part of the server's side of the court for one game by those operating the system.

“We have apologised to the players. We continue to have full confidence in the accuracy of the technology.”