French Open 2025: Why doesn’t Roland Garros use electronic circuits to make calls?

Electronic wire calls use cameras, computers and sensors to track the ball and are used by tennis referees to determine whether the ball is entered or eliminated.

The red dust layer on Roland Garros’ clay court allegedly compromised the accuracy and reliability of the technology as it was a “live” surface that moved during the game.

But Paul Hawkins, the inventor of the electronic wire calling system Hawkins, said the technology is superficially accurate, it is a mark left by balls on clay, which is inaccurate.

“It’s like the edge of a cliff [the plastic white line]so [the ball] “You can hit that part of the line and keep going until it’s over four millimeters, which actually hits the clay, and then that’s where you start to see marks on the court.”

“The mark on the court looks like it’s past, and in fact it’s cut the boundaries.”

But, Hawkins believes that Roland Garros without electronic circuits might be “better” and says that if the player who looks at the mark (which has been completed for over a century) is accepted, it is “still fair.”