Tennis will use automated electronic scoring hawk-eye system
With baseball season ending and football getting good, I haven't had a chance to write much about other sports. Something caught my eye about tennis and wanted to talk about it a little more. It seems that the tennis gods have decided that automated, electronic scoring's time has come.
The Hawk-Eye system is developed by an English company and is used by cricket and tennis to determine where a ball goes. It relies on a set of TV camera that tracks the ball and then creates a 3D representation of where and how the ball goes out.
They won't be taking the human perspective out of the game, as it will be used like the NFL's instant replay. It does add to the drama of a tennis match as Andy Roddick says:
It would add to the drama. I just don't see a lot of factors against it. It could really add to the game and take out the human-error aspect, which is out there.
There isn't a reason not to use it. It'd avoid many of the major mistakes that tennis experiences every season.
