Wimbledon will replace the line judges with cameras

The Wimbledon tennis tournament, which will be held from June 30 to July 13, will replace human line judges for the first time with a system based on artificial intelligence technology with a solution Hawk-Eye Innovations of Sony.

This measure represents an important milestone for Sports automation, since Sony's subsidiary will use a dozen cameras located next to the track and artificial intelligence will follow the trajectory of the ball determining whether or not it has entered each play. The hawk eye system precisely locals the trajectories of the balls to provide both game analysis and arbitration decisions.

The company, based in Basingstake (England), has expanded its technology to 25 different sports, among them baseball and football. Artificial intelligence analyzes the movement of the ball in real time to take instant decisions During the matches. The adoption of this technology demonstrates how AI is increasingly replacing human judgment in professional sports, which could improve precision and change the traditional character of tennis tournaments.

Wimbledon's decision could influence other important tennis tournaments to adopt similar electronic systems.
This measure eliminates the possible human error in line decisions, while suppressing one of the most recognizable visual elements of tennis in sports broadcasts.