Wimbledon will replace the linesmen with twelve cameras with Sony's Hawk-Eye

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

This measure represents an important milestone for the sport automation, since the Sony subsidiary will use a dozen cameras located next to the court and artificial intelligence will follow the trajectory of the ball determining whether or not it has entered each play. The Hawkeye System precisely locate the trajectories of the balls to provide both game analysis and referee decisions.

The company, based in Basingstoke, England, has expanded its technology to 25 different sports, including baseball and soccer. Artificial intelligence analyzes the movement of the ball in real time to take instant decisions during the games. The adoption of this technology demonstrates how AI is increasingly replacing human judgment in professional sports, which could improve accuracy and change the traditional nature of tennis tournaments.

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