Tennis: Wimbledon 2025
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw
The 2025 Wimbledon Championships will take place from 30 June to 13 July at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, a suburb of south west London, United Kingdom, and will make history.
For the first time in Wimbledon’s 148-year history, there will be no line judges. They will be replaced by electronic line calling.
Players and umpires have already become accustomed to the new set-up, as electronic line calling has been in use at other tennis tournaments for some time.
Pauline Eyre, who has been a line judge at Wimbledon for 16 years, remarked as follows:
"It's all the tradition of Wimbledon – the people and the funny uniforms – and that's a bit of personality that's gone.”
And she added:
"I think it's all of those little things that made Wimbledon Wimbledon."
Traditionalists will certainly miss the line judges, but technological progress, for the first time this year at Wimbledon, will take centre stage, if not centre court!
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