{"id":47409,"date":"2025-04-28T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47409"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:25:44","slug":"the-camera-never-lies-electronic-line-calls-in-focus-again-as-zverev-takes-photo-of-ball-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/the-camera-never-lies-electronic-line-calls-in-focus-again-as-zverev-takes-photo-of-ball-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Camera Never Lies: Electronic Line Calls in Focus Again as Zverev Takes Photo of Ball Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev is convinced there was a defect in the electronic line calling system during his Madrid Open win on Sunday after the German risked a hefty fine by pulling out his phone to take a photograph of a contested call.<\/p>\n<p>The top seed overcame Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 2-6 7-6(3) 7-6(0) to reach the last 16 of the claycourt tournament but was frustrated by an incident in the second set when a backhand from his opponent was called in by the tracking technology.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev appealed to chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani to take a look but was rebuffed, and the world number two was then warned for unsportsmanlike conduct after pulling his phone out of his bag and taking a picture of the spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I honestly think there was a defect in the system. There was a mistake in the system in that moment,&#8221; said Zverev, who later posted the photo on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not like one millimeter in, one millimeter out, it was like four-five centimeters. That&#8217;s why I went to the umpire and said &#8216;Please, come down to have a look at this, I&#8217;m not crazy&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters has contacted the ATP for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev is convinced there was a defect in the electronic line calling system during his Madrid Open win on Sunday after the German risked a hefty fine by pulling out his phone to take a photograph of a contested call. The top seed overcame Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 2-6 7-6(3) 7-6(0) to reach the last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47410,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47409\/revisions\/47410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}